Definition of tread

"tread" in the noun sense

1. pace, stride, tread

a step in walking or running

2. tread

the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire

3. tread

the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground

4. tread

structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step

"tread" in the verb sense

1. step, tread

put down or press the foot, place the foot

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"

"step on the brake"

2. tread, trample

tread or stomp heavily or roughly

"The soldiers trampled across the fields"

3. tread

crush as if by treading on

"tread grapes to make wine"

4. tread

brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center

5. tread

apply (the tread) to a tire

6. tread

mate with

"male birds tread the females"

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Quotations for tread

All feet tread not in one shoe. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Like a blind spinner in the sun,
I tread my days;
I know that all the threads will run
Appointed Ways. [ Helen Hunt ]

Fate steals along with silent tread,
Found oftenest in what least we dread;
Frowns in the storm with angry brow,
But in the sunshine strikes the blow. [ William Cowper ]

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. [ Pope ]

Here lies the body of Jonathan Near
Whose mouth it stretched from ear to ear.
Tread softly, stranger, o'er this wonder,
For if he yawns, you're gone, by thunder! [ Epitaph ]

From the great,
Illustrious actions are a debt to Fame.
No middle path remains for them to tread,
Whom she hath once ennobled. [ Glover ]

O happy earth.
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! [ Spenser ]

If a man once fall, all will tread upon him. [ Proverb ]

For wheresoever I turn my ravished eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,
Poetic fields encompass me around.
And still I seem to tread on classic ground. [ Addison ]

Every foot will tread on him who is in the mud. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel. [ Young ]

I never could tread a single pleasure under foot. [ Browning ]

It is a base thing to tread upon a man that is down. [ Proverb ]

One woe doth tread upon another's heel, so fast they follow. [ William Shakespeare ]

All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its bosom. [ Bryant ]

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet. [ Dr. Watts ]

Knowledge is the hill which few; may hope to climb; duty is the path that all may tread. [ Lewis Morris ]

Men drop so fast, ere life's mid stage we tread, Few know so many friends alive, as dead. [ Young ]

But the grave is not deep; it is the shining tread of an angel that seeks us. When the unknown hand throws the fatal dart at the end of man, then boweth he his head and the dart only lifts the crown of thorns from his wounds. [ Richter ]

What is the world, or its opinion, to him who has studied in the lives of men the mysteries of their egotism and perfidy! He knows that the best and most generous hearts are often forced to tread the thorny paths, where insults and outrages are heaped upon them! [ George Sand ]

tread in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters tread:

RATED
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TRADE
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TREAD
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DATER
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word tread

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tread in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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

TRADE
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RATED
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DATER
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Word Growth involving tread

Shorter words in tread

ad read

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Longer words containing tread

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treadboard treadboards

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treadle treadled

treadle treadler treadlers

treadle treadles treadless

treadmill treadmills

treadplate treadplates

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treadwheel treadwheels

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