# thread
## English
### Alternative forms

* thred (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s, from *terh₁- (“rub, twist”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), West Frisian tried, Dutch draad, German Draht, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish tråd, and Icelandic þráður. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /θɹɛd/
** (General American) IPA: [θɾ̪̊ɛd]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛd
* Hyphenation: thread

### Noun

thread (plural threads)
* A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.
** 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.
* A continued theme or idea.
    Synonym: topic
    All of these essays have a common thread.
    I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying.
* (engineering) A screw thread.
* A sequence of connections.
** 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII:I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings.
** 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 21:‘Let him go on. Do not interrupt him. He cannot go back, and maybe could not proceed at all if once he lost the thread of his thought.’
* The line midway between the banks of a stream.
* (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
* (Internet) 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.
* (figurative) Composition; quality; fineness.
** 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread.

#### Hyponyms

* quadruple thread
* screw thread

#### Derived terms

* Abalakov thread
* brahminical thread
* golden thread
* green thread
* hang by a thread
* hyperthreaded
* life thread
* lose the thread
* needle-and-thread grass
* nun's thread
* Pagenstecher thread
* pick up the threads
* pick up the threads of
* sister's thread
* threadbare
* thread bug
* thread count
* threader
* thread lace
* thread-legged bug
* thread-locking fluid
* thread mode
* thread necromancy
* thread needle
* thread of life
* thread of thought
* thread-paper
* thread pool
* threadsafe
* thread-safe
* thread snake
* thready

#### Translations
### Verb

thread (third-person singular simple present threads, present participle threading, simple past threaded or (archaic) thrid, past participle threaded or (archaic) thridden)
* (transitive) To put thread through.
    thread a needle
* (transitive) To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
    I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight.
** 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 266:The line to Uganda goes up the side of a slope in a series of S-bends, and as the telegraph wires follow the line, from below they look like a forest as they thread backwards and forwards about six times.
** 1961 February, D. Bertram, “The lines to Wetherby and their traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101:On the descent the line is often in cuttings; some are high, such as at Scarcroft, where a cut through firestone and fireclay was necessary, and near Bardsey, where the line threads a deep tree-lined gorge.
** 2013 October 19, Ben Smith, BBC Sport:Picking the ball up in his own half, Januzaj threaded a 40-yard pass into the path of Rooney to slice Southampton open in the blink of an eye.
* To screw on; to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt.
* (transitive) To remove the hair using a thread.
    How to thread your eyebrows and trim them

#### Derived terms

* threaded (adjective)
* multithreaded
* thread the needle

#### Translations
### See also

* sewing needle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### References

* thread on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* dearth, Theard, hatred, dareth, red hat, hetdar, Dehart

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English thread.

### Pronunciation

* (Canada) IPA: /tʁɛd/
* (France) IPA: /sʁɛd/

### Noun

thread m (plural threads)
* (anglicism, computing) thread
* (anglicism, Internet) thread

#### Synonyms

* (computing) fil d’exécution, processus léger
* (Internet) fil de discussion, fil d’intérêt

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English thread.

### Noun

thread m (invariable)
* (Internet) thread (series of messages)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English thread.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɾɛ.d͡ʒi/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtɾɛ.di/ [ˈtɾɛ.ði]
* Rhymes: -ɛdʒi, -ɛdi

### Noun

thread f (plural threads)
* (computing) thread (one of several units of execution running concurrently)
* (Internet) thread (series of grouped messages)