thread : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: thread	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for thread
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
thread n a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving Synonym(s): thread, yarn 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" Synonym(s): ribbon, 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" Synonym(s): train of thought, thread the raised helical rib going around a screw Synonym(s): screw thread, thread v 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" Synonym(s): weave, wind, thread, meander, wander pass a thread through; "thread a needle" remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string; "She had her eyebrows threaded" pass through or into; "thread tape"; "thread film" thread on or as if on a string; "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries" Synonym(s): string, thread, draw
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thread \Thread\ (thr[ecr]d), n. [OE. threed, [thorn]red, AS. [thorn]r[aemac]d; akin to D. draad, G. draht wire, thread, OHG. dr[be]t, Icel. [thorn]r[be][edh]r a thread, Sw. tr[86]d, Dan. traad, and AS. [thorn]r[be]wan to twist. See {Throw}, and cf. {Third}.] 1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted. 2. A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver. 3. The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See {Screw}, n., 1. 4. Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse. --Bp. Burnet. 5. Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness. [Obs.] A neat courtier, Of a most elegant thread. --B. Jonson. {Air thread}, the fine white filaments which are seen floating in the air in summer, the production of spiders; gossamer. {Thread and thrum}, the good and bad together. [Obs.] --Shak. {Thread cell} (Zo[94]l.), a lasso cell. See under {Lasso}. {Thread herring} (Zo[94]l.), the gizzard shad. See under {Gizzard}. {Thread lace}, lace made of linen thread. {Thread needle}, a game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding his neighbor, runs between the others; -- called also {thread the needle}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thread \Thread\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Threaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Threading}.] 1. To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle. 2. To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid. Heavy trading ships . . . threading the Bosphorus. --Mitford. They would not thread the gates. --Shak. 3. To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
thread n. [Usenet, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of `topic thread', a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic. To `follow a thread' is to read a series of Usenet postings sharing a common subject or (more correctly) which are connected by Reference headers. The better newsreaders can present news in thread order automatically. Not to be confused with the techspeak sense of `thread', e.g. a lightweight process. Interestingly, this is far from a neologism. The OED says: "That which connects the successive points in anything, esp. a narrative, train of thought, or the like; the sequence of events or ideas continuing throughout the whole course of anything;" Citations are given going back to 1642!
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
thread 1. See {multithreading}. 2. See {threaded code}. 3. {topic thread}. [{Jargon File}]