thread

名词 n. 动词 v.
[θɾ̪̊ɛd]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.
    — Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.
  2. A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.
  3. Any of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.).
    — the threads of a spiderweb
  4. A slender stream of water.
    — a thread of water
  5. The line midway between the banks of a stream.
  6. A screw thread.
  7. The continuing course of life; the thread of life.
  8. An ordered course, that which connects the successive points in a discourse.; A line of reasoning, sequence of ideas, or train of thought.
    — I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying.
  9. An ordered course, that which connects the successive points in a discourse.; A continuing theme that modifies the whole discourse.
    — All of these essays have a common thread.
  10. A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
  11. A series of posts or messages, consisting of an initial post and responses to it, generally relating to the same subject, on a newsgroup, Internet forum, or social media platform. Internet
  12. A sequence of connections.
  13. A precarious condition; something that which offers no real or otherwise perceived security.
    — a life hanging by a thread
  14. The degree of fineness; quality; nature. figuratively,obsolete
    — A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread.
动词 v.
  1. To pass a thread through the eye of a needle. transitive
  2. To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string. transitive
  3. To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles). figuratively,transitive
    — to thread through narrow passages
  4. To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).; To cautiously make (one's way) through a precarious place or situation. figuratively,transitive
    — He threaded his way through legal entanglements.
  5. To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate. figuratively,transitive
    — And when the Miners by theſe Shafts or Adits do ſtrike or threed a Vein of any Metal […] then the Metal which is digged […] is called Oar […]
  6. To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse. transitive
    — [...] the urban landscape threaded with parks and trees to the horizon. The enormous sky over that flat line dazzled clear blue or filled with towers of cumulus clouds.
  7. To form a screw thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.). transitive
    — Coordinate term: tap
  8. To remove (facial hair) by way of a looped thread that is tightly wound in the middle. ambitransitive
    — to thread your eyebrows and trim them
  9. To feed (a sewing machine or otherwise a projecting or exposing mechanism, such as a projector, a camera, etc.) with film. ambitransitive
  10. To pass (a film or tape) through a projector, recorder, etc. so as to correct its path. transitive
  11. Of boiling syrup: To form a threadlike stream when poured from a spoon. intransitive

词形变化

threads plural thred alternative thrid alternative threed alternative threads present,singular,third-person threading participle,present threaded past thrid archaic,past threaded participle,past thrid archaic,participle,past thridden archaic,participle,past thred alternative thrid alternative threed alternative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s, from *terh₁- (“rub, twist”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola dreade (“thread”), Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), Cimbrian draat (“string, thread”), Dutch draad (“thread, wire”), German Draht (“thread, wire”), Luxembourgish Drot (“wire”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish tråd (“thread, wire”), Faroese tráður (“thread”), Icelandic þráður (“thread”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw.
词源 2
From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s, from *terh₁- (“rub, twist”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola dreade (“thread”), Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), Cimbrian draat (“string, thread”), Dutch draad (“thread, wire”), German Draht (“thread, wire”), Luxembourgish Drot (“wire”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish tråd (“thread, wire”), Faroese tráður (“thread”), Icelandic þráður (“thread”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw.
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