thread

Meanings

Noun

• A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.
• A continued theme or idea.
• A screw thread.
• A sequence of connections.
• The line midway between the banks of a stream.
• A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
• A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.
• A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
• Composition; quality; fineness.

Verb

• To put thread through.
• To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
• To screw on, to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt

Related

Narrower meaning words

• quadruple thread
• screw thread

Origin

• From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European, from *terh₁-. Cognates with Saterland Frisian Träid, West Frisian tried, Dutch draad, German Draht, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish tråd, and Icelandic þráður. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh. More at throw.