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a fine cord of flax, cotton, or other fibrous material spun out to considerable length, especially when composed of two or more filaments twisted together.

twisted filaments or fibers of any kind used for sewing.

one of the lengths of yarn forming the warp or weft of a woven fabric.

a filament or fiber of glass or other ductile substance.

Ropemaking.��

1. any of a number of fibers twisted into a yarn.

2. a yarn, especially as enumerated in describing small stuff.

something having the fineness or slenderness of a filament, as a thin continuous stream of liquid, a fine line of color, or a thin seam of ore.

the helical ridge of a screw.

that which runs through the whole course of something, connecting successive parts.

something conceived as being spun or continuously drawn out, as the course of life fabled to be spun, measured, and cut by the Fates.

Digital Technology.��a series of posts and responses on a message board or electronic mailing list that deal with the same subject and are grouped together.

Slang.��threads, clothes.

to pass the end of a thread through the eye of (a needle).

to fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; string.

to pass continuously through the whole course of (something); pervade.

to make one's way through (a narrow passage, forest, crowd, etc.).

to make (one's way) thus.

to form a thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).

to place and arrange thread, yarn, etc., in position on (a sewing machine, loom, textile machine, etc.).

to remove (facial hair, especially eyebrow hair) by using a looped and twisted thread to roll over the hair and lift it from the follicles.

to thread one's way, as through a passage or between obstacles.

to move in a threadlike course; wind or twine.

Cooking.��(of boiling syrup) to form a fine thread when poured from a spoon.

to remove facial hair, especially from the eyebrows, by using a looped and twisted thread.