tread
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
business
construction
fortification
fortifications
government
manufacturing
military
natural-sciences
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English treden, from Old English tredan, from Proto-West Germanic *tredan, from Proto-Germanic *trudaną.
Inflected forms:
form: treads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: treading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trod
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tread
pos: verb
tags: past
form: treaded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: trodden
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trod
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tread
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: treaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: treade
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: treads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: treade
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He trod back and forth wearily.
Don't tread on the lawn.
And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet haue troden, shall be thine inheritance, and thy childrens for euer, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
yee that walk The Earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep
gloss: To step or walk upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Actors tread the boards.
gloss: To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: to tread lightly, to tread gently
to tread carefully, to tread cautiously, to tread warily
gloss: To beat or press with the feet.
pos: verb
examples: to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path
gloss: To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
pos: verb
examples: Round about them was a circle of girls and wives of the neighbouring tenants; "they trod the spinning-wheels with diligent feet, or were using the scraping carding-combs," as an author has it.
gloss: To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
pos: verb
examples: I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem.
They have measured many a mile, / To tread a measure with you on this grass.
gloss: To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.
pos: verb
examples: Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
gloss: To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When Turtles tread, and Rookes and Dawes,
And Maidens bleach their summer smockes:
gloss: To copulate with (a hen).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But if a child sees a cockerel tread a hen, or two dogs coupling, well and good. It should see these things.
This bird used to try to tread her fellow-hens.
gloss: To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A step taken with the foot.
pos: noun
gloss: A manner of stepping.
pos: noun
examples: She is coming, my own, my sweet; / Were it ever so airy a tread, / My heart would hear her and beat.
gloss: The sound made when someone or something is walking.
pos: noun
examples: The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll. Utterson sighed. "Is there never anything else?" he asked.
But when, after a singularly heavy tread and the jingle of spurs on the platform, the door flew open to the newcomer, he seemed a realization of our worst expectations.
As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.
gloss: A way; a track or path.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: And the queint Mazes in the wanton greene,
For lacke of tread are vndistinguishable.
gloss: A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.
pos: noun
examples: The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue.
gloss: The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
pos: noun
gloss: The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
pos: noun
gloss: The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
pos: noun
gloss: The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
pos: noun
gloss: A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
pos: noun
Antonyms: rise
riser
Related words: trade
Derived words: as ever trod shoe-leather
betread
don't tread on me
downtread
downtrodden
fools rush in where angels fear to tread
fortread
have the black ox tread on one's foot
midtread
retread
totread
treadable
tread a measure
treadboard
tread carefully
tread down
treader
tread in someone'ssteps
treadle
treadless
tread-lightly
tread lightly
treadmill
tread on eggshells
tread on someone's corns
toes
tread on
upon
tread out
treadplate
tread softly
tread-softly
tread the boards
tread the stage
tread water
treadwear
Treadwell
treadwheel
untread
untrod
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: shkelmoj
lang: Bulgarian
word: стъпквам
roman: stǎpkvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: утъпквам
roman: utǎpkvam
lang: Czech
word: udusat
lang: Czech
word: dusat
lang: Dutch
word: stampen
lang: Dutch
word: vertrappen
lang: Finnish
word: talloa
lang: French
word: piétiner
lang: French
word: fouler
lang: Galician
word: trepar
lang: Galician
word: tripar
lang: Galician
word: pisar
lang: German
word: treten
lang: German
word: festtreten
lang: German
word: stampfen
lang: German
word: feststampfen
lang: German
word: austreten
lang: German
word: freitreten
lang: German
word: trampeln
lang: Italian
word: calpestare
lang: Italian
word: pestare
lang: Italian
word: pigiare
lang: Japanese
word: 踏む
roman: fumu
lang: Lithuanian
word: mindyti
lang: Lithuanian
word: mindžioti
lang: Polish
word: deptać
lang: Polish
word: zdeptać
lang: Polish
word: podeptać
lang: Portuguese
word: espezinhar
lang: Romanian
word: călca
lang: Russian
word: топтать
roman: toptatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: zapatear
lang: Spanish
word: pisotear
lang: Spanish
word: patullar
lang: Spanish
word: apisonar
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: چیكنهمك
roman: çiğnemek
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طبانلامق
roman: tabanlamak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آیاقلامق
roman: ayaklamak