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Synonyms
thread (thrĕd)

[Middle English, from Old English thrǣd.]

noun 

    1. Fine cord of a fibrous material, such as cotton or flax, made of two or more filaments twisted together and used in needlework and the weaving of cloth.
    2. A piece of such cord.
    1. A thin strand, cord, or filament of natural or manufactured material.
    2. Something that suggests the fineness or thinness of such a strand, cord, or filament: a thread of smoke.
    3. Something that suggests the continuousness of such a strand, cord, or filament: lost the thread of his argument.
  3. A helical or spiral ridge on a screw, nut, or bolt.
  4. Computer Science
    1. A portion of a program that can run independently of and concurrently with other portions of the program.
    2. A set of posts on a newsgroup, composed of an initial post about a topic and all responses to it.
  5. Slang Clothes.

verb: thread·ed, thread·ing, threads. 

transitive verb 

    1. To pass one end of a thread through the eye of (a needle, for example).
    2. To pass (something) through in the manner of a thread: thread the wire through the opening.
    3. To pass a tape or film into or through (a device): thread a film projector.
    4. To pass (a tape or film) into or through a device.
  2. To connect by running a thread through; string: thread beads.
    1. To make one's way cautiously through: threading dark alleys.
    2. To make (one's way) cautiously through something.
  4. To occur here and there throughout; pervade: “More than 90 geologic faults thread the Los Angeles area” (Science News)
  5. To machine a thread on (a screw, nut, or bolt).

intransitive verb 

  1. To make one's way cautiously: threaded through the shoals and sandbars.
  2. To proceed by a winding course.
  3. To form a thread when dropped from a spoon, as boiling sugar syrup.

derivatives

thread́er
noun