Word Meanings - THREAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

wire, thread, OHG. drat, Icel. a thread, Sw. tråd, Dan. traad, and 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,

Additional info about word: THREAD

wire, thread, OHG. drat, Icel. a thread, Sw. tråd, Dan. traad, and 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. 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. Shak. -- Thread cell , a lasso cell. See under Lasso. -- Thread herring , 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THREAD)

• Line
• Cord
• thread
• length
• outline
• row
• direction
• verse
• course
• method
• succession
• sequence
• continuity
• Row
• Series
• order
• rank
• continuation
• file
• string
• concatenation
• Trace
• Explore
• track
• follow
• derive
• deduce
• investigate
• delineate
• pursue

Related words: (words related to THREAD)

• STRE
  Straw. Chaucer.
• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• STRONTIAN
  Strontia.
• STROMATIC
  Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• STREPITORES
  A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
• STRIATUM
  The corpus striatum.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• STRUTTING
  from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• STROMATOLOGY
  The history of the formation of stratified rocks.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• STRUVITE
  A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia.
• VERSET
  A verse. Milton.
• STRATEGIC; STRATEGICAL
  Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice. -- Stra*te"gic*al*ly, adv. Strategic line , a line joining strategic points. -- Strategic point , any point or region in the theater or warlike operations which affords to its possessor
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• STRATUM
  A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively. 2. A bed or layer artificially made; a course.
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• STREPTOTHRIX
  A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• PEDESTRIAN
  Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
• OSTROGOTHIC
  Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
• REGISTRANT
  One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark.
• ANCESTRY
  1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who
• NAVEL-STRING
  The umbilical cord.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,