Word Finder - thread

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

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A continued theme or idea.

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All of these essays have a common thread.

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• topic

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A screw thread.

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A sequence of connections.

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The line midway between the banks of a stream.

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

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

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

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Composition; quality; fineness.

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To put thread through.

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thread a needle

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To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).

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I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight.

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To screw on, to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt

He picked at a thread on the couch, his mind obviously lost in deep thought.

She looked down and plucked at a loose thread on her dress.

Darian felt a thread of warmth in the hallway.

But I seem to have lost the thread of my discourse.

She looked away and fumbled with the needle and thread she'd found in a sewing kit.

Use a thread that's similar to your fabric.

He was the eldest of a family of six sons and a daughter, and the only one who survived childhood; his own life in youth hung by so mere a thread as to be again and again despaired of.

We do make thread and cotton dresses of cotton.

And again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, and again it turned uselessly in the same place.

The chromatin substance increases in amount; the thread stains moie deeply, and in most cases presents a homogeneous appearance.

Take a piece of thread of length AA', and fix it at its extremities by means of pins at the foci.

The thread is now stretched taut by a pencil, and the pencil moved; the curve traced out is the desired ellipse.

Philip Galley (Dr_Galley) Wed, 28 Jun 2006 Religion Thread WEll said Adam.

The reduction is brought about simply by the segmentation of the spirem thread into half the number of segments instead of the normal number.

C, Nuclear thread segment ing.

The most important author whose writings rank as classical is Miron Costin, who either took up the thread where it was left by Simion and Ureche and wrote the history of Moldavia from 1 5941662, or continued the history from where (probably) Evstratie had left it (c. 1630-62).

The thread is resumed in the account of the separation of the patriarch and his nephew Lot, who divide the land between them.

Skeat takes the ultimate root to be kar, to move, especially in a circular motion, seen in "curve," "circle," &c. The word "worm" is applied to many objects resembling the animals in having a spiral shape or motion, as the spiral thread of a screw, or the spiral pipe through which vapour is passed in distillation.

The use of an eyepiece with a cross thread is essential to this measurement.

After the microscope has been so adjusted that the image of the object to be measured falls exactly in the plane of the cross threads, the object is moved by the micrometer until one edge of the object is exactly covered by a thread.

Then the object is moved by the micrometer till the image of the other edge is covered by the thread in the eyepiece, and the micrometer is again read.

There is no danger of this thread turning acrimonious.

Clicking noises, echo, very ambient, switching back to a main melodic thread.

There is a ' book thread ' buried deep in off topic.

Be the first to post a Reply to this Thread !

If things go wrong, it's better to have the thread break than tear the fabric.

He learned to make long-tagged thread laces; and many thousands of these articles were furnished by him to the hawkers.

The lastnamed are specially numerous on the tentacles and on some other regions of the body, and produce the well-known "thread cells," or nematocysts, so characteristic of the Coe lentera.

Disconnect the regulator (left hand thread) with a suitable spanner.

Debs Hallsworth (debsuk) Mon, 29 May 2006 Religion Thread I ca n't because of who I am.

I replied in the thread, reminding him to check on the forum rules about exposure.

Lower part of both sides is decorated with concentric U-shaped rows of glass beads applied in lazy stitch technique on beige thread.

The " 9/11 self inflicted " thread has now had its name changed by persons unknown.

Backed with cream fabric (in two pieces) sewn with black cotton thread in overcast stitch.

Structural sewing is with black cotton thread; applique with beige thread.

The new group would be the world 's largest producer of industrial sewing thread with over 40 per cent of the United Kingdom market.

Arrowheads were bound to the shaft with sinew thread.

The common thread, from the office of Tony Blair to the slit trenches of local politics, is fear.

I have been avoiding Diet thread due to inability to do it, blaming a stinking cold at the moment !

A thread of narrative runs through, and it 's all as subjective as hell.

However, the information about pipe and tabor playing in Gloucestershire for the Cotswold Morris is very fragmentary and difficult to thread together.

Pre 1977 1/2 model year bikes used a unique thread size for the tappet block hold-down screws.

Historical events often come about with a large dose of fluke and a tenuous thread of intention.

Please see the reply that I have given TODAY to KAVITHA in the thread entitled " GARMENT IMPORT TO THE US ".

Perhaps turn this into it 's own sticky thread?

She undertook ecclesiastical commissions, and researched metal thread embroidery.

Programs should only be terminated from their main thread of execution to allow the DPMI host to clean up properly.

Thread your way between the vehicles and join the throngs of tourists along the path into the gorge.

Tippets must be attached with a loop-to-loop connection otherwise the tippet material may cut the thread of the leaders made from this material.

This is all down to the 32 thread, T1 processor allowing for 32 simultaneous operations.