threads
Meaning of threads
- a long, thin strand of cotton, nylon, or other fibres used in sewing or weaving.
he had a loose thread on his shirt
the thread that bound them had snapped
- a theme or characteristic running throughout a situation or piece of writing.
a major thread running through the book is the primacy of form over substance
- a helical ridge on the outside of a screw, bolt, etc. or on the inside of a cylindrical hole, to allow two parts to be screwed together.
- clothes.
his fine threads and fashionable specs
- pass a thread through the eye of (a needle) or through the needle and guides of (a sewing machine).
I can't even thread a needle
she threaded up the machine with the right cotton
- pluck hairs from (the eyebrows or another part of the body) using a twisted cotton thread.
I had my eyebrows threaded today
- cut a screw thread in or on (a hole, screw, bolt, etc.).
we're laser-cutting holes to be threaded for screws
Old English thrǣd (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch draad and German Draht, also to the verb throw. The verb dates from late Middle English.
Information about threads
- The singular form of threads is: thread.
- Languages in which threads is used:
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Hyphenation of threads
threads
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- threads is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
threads synonyms
Meaning togs:
Meaning a continuous slow movement from one place to another:
Meaning a course along which someone or something moves:
Meaning a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch:
Meaning the subject of a talk, piece of writing, exhibition, etc.; a topic:
Meaning a decorative image or design, especially a repeated one forming a pattern:
Meaning a singing voice between baritone and alto or countertenor, the highest of the ordinary adult male range:
Meaning a force tending to pull or stretch something to an extreme or damaging degree:
Meaning a sudden or violent lunge with a pointed weapon or a bodily part:
Meaning a person or thing that is being discussed, described, or dealt with:
Meaning the substance or general meaning of a speech or text:
Meaning a load, typically a heavy one:
Meaning the fact or process of doing something, typically to achieve an aim:
Meaning the main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence:
Meaning the plot of a novel, play, film, or other narrative form:
Meaning a written outline of a film, novel, or stage work giving details of the plot and individual scenes:
Anagrams of threads
dearths, hardest, hardset, hatreds, trashed
Words that rhyme with threads
Eads, beads, jetbeads, deads, Copperheads, Flatheads, Horseheads, Roundheads, acidheads, airheads, arrowheads, axeheads, baldheads, barrelheads, beachheads, bedheads, beetleheads, beheads, bigheads, billheads, blackheads, blockheads, blueheads, boltheads, boneheads, boofheads, bowheads, breadheads, bridgeheads, bubbleheads, buffleheads, bulkheads, bullheads, buttheads, casingheads, catheads, chipheads, chowderheads, chuckleheads, closeheads, coheads, cokeheads, copperheads, crackheads, crossheads, cupheads, curlyheads, deadheads, dickheads, dopeheads