Варианты произношения (3)
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[ˈθɹʷɛd]
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θɹɛd
Существительное
A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.
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Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.
A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.
Any of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.).
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the threads of a spiderweb
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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 slender stream of water.
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a thread of water
The line midway between the banks of a stream.
A screw thread.
The continuing course of life; the thread of life.
An ordered course, that which connects the successive points in a discourse. A line of reasoning, sequence of ideas, or train of thought.
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I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying.
I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings.
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‘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.’
An ordered course, that which connects the successive points in a discourse. A continuing theme that modifies the whole discourse.
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All of these essays have a common thread.
A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
A series of posts or messages, consisting of an initial post and responses to it, generally relating to the same subject, on a newsgroup, Internet forum, or social media platform.
Употребление- Internet
A sequence of connections.
A precarious condition; something that which offers no real or otherwise perceived security.
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a life hanging by a thread
The degree of fineness; quality; nature.
Употребление- переносное
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A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread.
Глагол
To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.
Употребление- переходный глагол
To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string.
Употребление- переходный глагол
To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
Употребление- переносное
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to thread through narrow passages
I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight.
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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.
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 make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles). To cautiously make (one's way) through a precarious place or situation.
Употребление- переносное
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He threaded his way through legal entanglements.
To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate.
Употребление- переносное
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And when the Miners by theſe Shafts or Adits do ſtrike or threed a Vein of any Metal […] then the Metal which is digged […] is called Oar […]
Tom out here will have leave to thrid you with bullets.
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Only the swifts were alert and busy, flashing, poising, diving under the eaves; thridding Ned's brain as they passed with a receding sound like that made by pebbles hopping over ice.
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.
To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse.
Употребление- переходный глагол
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[...] the urban landscape threaded with parks and trees to the horizon. The enormous sky over that flat line dazzled clear blue or filled with towers of cumulus clouds.
[...] dark hair threaded with gray pulled back from a face still beautiful in spite of clear evidence of the passage of time.
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[...] landscape threaded with rivers, roads, tracks, pathways and an airport runway; one peppered with villages, farms, crofts and distilleries. Visitors to Islay, especially those coming from densely populated urban areas, often mistakenly[…]
[...] dark hair threaded with early silver.
To form a screw thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).
Употребление- переходный глагол
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Coordinate term: tap
to thread a bolt
To remove (facial hair) by way of a looped thread that is tightly wound in the middle.
Употребление- переходное или непереходное употребление
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to thread your eyebrows and trim them
To feed (a sewing machine or otherwise a projecting or exposing mechanism, such as a projector, a camera, etc.) with film.
Употребление- переходное или непереходное употребление
To pass (a film or tape) through a projector, recorder, etc. so as to correct its path.
Употребление- переходный глагол
Of boiling syrup: To form a threadlike stream when poured from a spoon.
Употребление- непереходный глагол
Существительное
a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
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any long object resembling a thin line
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a mere ribbon of land
the lighted ribbon of traffic
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from the air the road was a grey thread
a thread of smoke climbed upward
the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together
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I couldn't follow his train of thought
he lost the thread of his argument
the raised helical rib going around a screw
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Глагол
to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
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the river winds through the hills
the path meanders through the vineyards
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sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body
pass a thread through
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thread a needle
remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string
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She had her eyebrows threaded
pass through or into
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thread tape
thread film
thread on or as if on a string
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string pearls on a string
the child drew glass beads on a string
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thread dried cranberries