Definition of thread

"thread" in the noun sense

1. thread, yarn

a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving

2. ribbon, thread

any long object resembling a thin line

"a mere ribbon of land"

"the lighted ribbon of traffic"

"from the air the road was a grey thread"

"a thread of smoke climbed upward"

3. train of thought, thread

the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together

"I couldn't follow his train of thought"

"he lost the thread of his argument"

4. screw thread, thread

the raised helical rib going around a screw

"thread" in the verb sense

1. weave, wind, thread, meander, wander

to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

"the river winds through the hills"

"the path meanders through the vineyards"

"sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"

2. thread

pass a thread through

"thread a needle"

3. thread

remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string

"She had her eyebrows threaded"

4. thread

pass through or into

"thread tape"

"thread film"

5. string, thread, draw

thread on or as if on a string

"string pearls on a string"

"the child drew glass beads on a string"

"thread dried cranberries"

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Quotations for thread

The thread leads to the bottom. [ Proverb ]

Needle and thread are half clothing. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Twist ye, twine ye! even so,
Mingle shades of joy and woe,
Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife,
In the thread of human life. [ Scott ]

The thread breaks where it is weakest. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

And be the thread of coarse or fine,
The loom is still the best receiver!
Whatever I spin, the same is mine.
Returned in full from Time the Weaver. [ Henry Reed ]

A thread too fine spun will easily break. [ Proverb ]

Pride may lurk under a thread-bare cloak. [ Proverb ]

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The lovely town was white with apple blooms.
And the great elms o'erhead
Dark shadows wove on their serial looms.
Shot through with golden thread. [ Longfellow ]

Trust not a great weight to a slender thread. [ Proverb ]

For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins even from the birth are misery and man. [ Pope ]

A thread-bare coat is armour-proof against highwaymen. [ Proverb ]

You sewed it with a red hot needle and a burning thread. [ Proverb ]

Spin not too fine a thread, lest it break in weaving up. [ Proverb ]

Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]

Virtue is despised, if it be seen in a thread-bare cloak. [ Proverb ]

She spins a good thread that brings up her daughter well. [ Proverb ]

Mark how there still has run, inwoven from above,
Through thy life's darkest woof, the golden thread of love. [ R. C. Trench ]

He that does not knot his thread will lose his first stitch. [ Gaelic ]

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. [ Hood ]

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time. [ Mason ]

Like the tailor, that sewed for nothing and found thread himself. [ Proverb ]

A thread will tie an honest man better than a rope will do a rogue. [ Scotch Proverb ]

When a man's coat is thread-bare, it is an easy thing to pick a hole in it. [ Proverb ]

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. [ William Shakespeare ]

Memory is the golden thread linking all the mental gifts and excellencies together. [ E. P. Hood ]

Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. [ Horace Mann ]

The spider lost her distaff, and is ever since forced to draw her thread through her tail. [ Proverb ]

Promises retain men better than services. For them, hope is a chain, and gratitude a thread. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread. [ Burton ]

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. [ Montaigne ]

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past see how that which is to come will be drawn on. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Life is before you, - not earthly life alone, but life - a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity. [ J. G. Holland ]

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its Cause. [ Beecher ]

Is it not strange, the way in which good angels seem to take up the thread of our dropped hopes and endeavors, and wind them up for us, we know not how, till it is all done? [ Miss Muloch ]

thread in Scrabble®

The word thread is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters thread:

DEARTH
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HATRED
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THREAD
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In thread

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thread in Words With Friends™

The word thread is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters thread:

HATRED
(51)
DEARTH
(51)
 

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Word Growth involving thread

Shorter words in thread

ad read

re read

Longer words containing thread

interthread interthreaded

interthread interthreading

interthread interthreads

multithread multithreaded nonmultithreaded

multithread multithreader multithreaders

multithread multithreading multithreadings

multithread multithreads

rethread rethreaded

rethread rethreading

rethread rethreads

threadbare

threaded interthreaded

threaded multithreaded nonmultithreaded

threaded nonthreaded

threaded rethreaded

threaded unthreaded

threader multithreader multithreaders

threader threaders multithreaders

threadfish threadfishes

threadier

threadiest

threadiness

threading interthreading

threading multithreading multithreadings

threading rethreading

threadless

threadlike

threadmaker threadmakers

threadmaking

threads interthreads

threads multithreads

threads rethreads

thready

unthread unthreaded