tread

Meaning

Verb

1. To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
2. To step or walk upon.
3. To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
4. To beat or press with the feet.
5. To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
6. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
7. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.
8. To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
9. To copulate with.
10. To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine

Noun

1. A step taken with the foot.
2. A manner of stepping.
3. The sound made when someone or something is walking.
4. (obsolete) A way; a track or path.
5. A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.
6. The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
7. The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
8. The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
9. The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
10. The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
11. A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.

Concepts

tread

step

trample

step on

pace

walk

tread on

stride

stamp

tramp

footstep

go

gait

mate

pedal

stomp

footfall

copulate

stair

trample on

protector

tread ply

walk over

crush with the foot

stamp down

take/make a step

trample upon

walk upon

march

footing

foot

go on

stamp on

oppress

cover

enter

service

mount

sole

treadle

footpace

footsteps

walk on

stomp on

set foot

go on foot

mark time

crush

squash

amble

stamping

tramping

trampling

underfoot

brattle

clatter

track

trample under foot

tread upon

carriage

strut

bearing surface

binding face

face

shank base

stair tread

trampler

dance

infringe

violate

gradation

move

remove

board

occupy

ride

serve

thread

brace

pull back

strengthen

tense

tone up

tone

flounce

goose step

troop

couple

remold

remould

surface

base

basis

bed

bedrock

bottom

floor

foundation

fundus

ground

groundwork

rock bottom

underbelly

tramp down

tread down

step up

press

stepping

tread under foot

run

come into

step into

footboard

take a step

chase

beat

kick

footprint

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹɛd/

Etymology

From Middle English treden, from Old English tredan, from Proto-West Germanic *tredan, from Proto-Germanic *trudaną.