English Dictionary

thread

/θɹɛd/

noun

A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string. / A continued theme or idea. / (engineering) A screw thread.

I need to buy a spool of thread.

意味（1）

A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.

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.

意味（2）

A continued theme or idea.

All of these essays have a common thread.

意味（3）

(engineering) A screw thread.

意味（4）

A sequence of connections.

I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings.

意味（5）

The line midway between the banks of a stream.

意味（6）

(computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.

意味（7）

(Internet) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.

意味（8）

A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.

意味（9）

(figuratively) Composition; quality; fineness.

A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread.