thread

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.
2. A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.
3. Any of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.).
4. A slender stream of water.
5. The line midway between the banks of a stream.
6. A screw thread.
7. The continuing course of life; thread of life.
8. An ordered course, that which connects the successive points in a discourse.
9. An ordered course, that which connects the successive points in a discourse.
10. A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
11. (Internet) 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.
12. A sequence of connections.
13. A precarious condition; something that which offers no real or otherwise perceived security.
14. (figuratively, obsolete) The degree of fineness; quality; nature.

Verb

1. (transitive) To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.
2. (transitive) To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
4. (figuratively, transitive) To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
5. (figuratively, transitive) To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate.
6. (transitive) To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse.
7. (transitive) To form a screw thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).
8. (ambitransitive) To remove (facial hair) by way of a looped thread that is tightly wound in the middle.
9. (ambitransitive) To feed (a sewing machine or otherwise a projecting or exposing mechanism, such as a projector, a camera, etc.) with film.
10. (transitive) To pass (a film or tape) through a projector, recorder, etc. so as to correct its path.
11. (intransitive) Of boiling syrup: To form a threadlike stream when poured from a spoon.

Concetti

filo

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infilare

filetto

filettatura

filamento

filettare

🧵

corda

🪢

filo conduttore

forum

nastro

🎀

filato

refe

🧵

stame

thread

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infilare su un filo

cordicella

spago

serpeggiare

filo di lana

legare

infilare l’ago

lenza

matassa

mettere cordoni

snodarsi

legare con un filo

infilare su una corda

cordone

cucirino

🧵

filaccia

cordoncino

🪢

avvolgere con fili

sinonimi

string

🪢

yarn

🧶

cord

filament

rope

🪢

wire

fibre

line

twine

fiber

cotton

strand

ribbon

🎀

tie

vein

warp

string together

band

draw

weave

train of thought

knot

🪢

lace

clue

screw thread

fibril

wander

woof

wool

needle

meander

tissue

stripe

wind

jet

slip

braid

streak

row

pierce

rootlet

gather

filum

clew

fillet

chain

bindle

cable

penetrate

path

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Traduzioni

fil

🧶

Faden

🧶

hilo

🧵

draad

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Garn

fio

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garen

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Zwirn

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enfiler

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Thread

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Gewinde

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νήμα

κλωστή

Pronunciato come (IPA)

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Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: thred

Ereditato da inglese antico: þrǣd

Affine saterfriesisch: Träid

Affine frisone occidentale: tried

Affine olandese: draad

Affine tedesco: Draht

Affine svedese: tråd

Affine islandese: þráður

Affine albanese: dredh

In summary

From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s, from *terh₁- (“rub, twist”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola dreade (“thread”), Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), Cimbrian draat (“string, thread”), Dutch draad (“thread, wire”), German Draht (“thread, wire”), Luxembourgish Drot (“wire”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish tråd (“thread, wire”), Faroese tráður (“thread”), Icelandic þráður (“thread”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw.