Definition of: thread

(thred) noun
1. A very slender cord or line composed of two or more yarns or filaments, as of flax, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, twisted together.
2. A filament of any substance, as of metal, glass, or tissue; a hair.
3. A fine stream or beam: a thread of light.
4. A fine line of color.
5. Anything suggestive of a thread; something that runs a continuous course through a series, serving to give sequence to the whole: the thread of his discourse.
6. Mining A very thin seam or vein of ore.
7. Mech. The spiral ridge of a screw.
8. Thread of life.
—v.t.
1. To pass a thread through the eye of: to thread a needle.
2. To arrange or string on a thread, as beads.
3. To cut a thread on or in, as a screw.
4. To make one's way through or over: to thread a maze.
5. To make (one's way) carefully.
6. To be present throughout; pervade.
—v.i.
7. To make one's way carefully; step.
8. To drop from a fork or spoon in a fine thread: said of boiling sirup when it has reached a certain consistency.
—adjective Pertaining to, resembling, or made of thread; filar. [OE thrǣd]
—thread′er noun
—thread′like′ adjective