threads

Meaning of threads

plural noun
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. clothes.
    his fine threads and fashionable specs
verb, 3rd person present
  1. 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
  2. pluck hairs from (the eyebrows or another part of the body) using a twisted cotton thread.
    I had my eyebrows threaded today
  3. 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.
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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:

togs, duds

Meaning a continuous slow movement from one place to another:

drift

Meaning a course along which someone or something moves:

direction

Meaning a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch:

sense

Meaning the subject of a talk, piece of writing, exhibition, etc.; a topic:

theme

Meaning a decorative image or design, especially a repeated one forming a pattern:

motif

Meaning a singing voice between baritone and alto or countertenor, the highest of the ordinary adult male range:

tenor

Meaning a force tending to pull or stretch something to an extreme or damaging degree:

strain

Meaning a sudden or violent lunge with a pointed weapon or a bodily part:

thrust

Meaning a person or thing that is being discussed, described, or dealt with:

subject

Meaning the substance or general meaning of a speech or text:

gist

Meaning a load, typically a heavy one:

burden

Meaning the fact or process of doing something, typically to achieve an aim:

action

Meaning the main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence:

plot

Meaning the plot of a novel, play, film, or other narrative form:

storyline

Meaning a written outline of a film, novel, or stage work giving details of the plot and individual scenes:

scenario

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

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