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thread

English

  1. 🔊 a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
  2. 🔊 the raised helical rib going around a screw
  3. 🔊 the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together
    “I couldn't follow his train of thought”
  4. 🔊 any long object resembling a thin line
    “a mere ribbon of land”
  5. 🔊 pass through or into
    “thread tape”
  6. 🔊 remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string
    “She had her eyebrows threaded”
  7. 🔊 pass a thread through
    “thread a needle”
  8. 🔊 thread on or as if on a string
    “string pearls on a string”
  9. 🔊 to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
    “the river winds through the hills”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 hiladura thread
  2. 🔊 hilaza thread
  3. 🔊 enhilar to thread
  4. 🔊 enhebrar to thread, to string
  5. 🔊 hilo thread, yarn, string
  6. 🔊 hebra thread, strand, filament

Similar words

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