thread
pronunciation
How to pronounce thread in British English:
UK [θred]
How to pronounce thread in American English:
US [θred]
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- Noun:
- a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
- any long object resembling a thin line
- the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together
- the raised helical rib going around a screw
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- Verb:
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- pass a thread through
- remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string
- pass through or into
- thread on or as if on a string
Word Origin
- thread
- thread: [OE] A thread is etymologically something ‘twisted’. The word comes from a prehistoric Germanic *thrǣthuz, which was derived from the base *thrǣ- ‘twist’ (source also of English throw). Other descendants of *thrǣthuz include Dutch draad, Swedish tråd, and Danish traad ‘thread’ and German draht ‘wire’.=> throw
- thread (n.)
- Old English þræd "fine cord, especially when twisted" (related to þrawan "to twist"), from Proto-Germanic *thredu- "twisted yarn" (cognates: Old Saxon thrad, Old Frisian thred, Middle Dutch draet, Dutch draad, Old High German drat, German Draht, Old Norse þraðr), literally "twisted," from suffixed form of PIE root *tere- (1) "to rub, rub by turning, turn" (see throw (v.)). Meaning "spiral ridge of a screw" is from 1670s. Threads, slang for "clothes" is 1926, American English. The silk line, as spun by the worm, is about the 5000th part of an inch thick; but a spider's line is perhaps six times finer, or only the 30,000th part of an inch in diameter, insomuch, that a single pound of this attenuated substance might be sufficient to encompass our globe. [John Leslie, "Elements of Natural Philosophy," Edinburgh, 1823]
- thread (v.)
- "to put thread through a needle," mid-14c., from thread (n.); in reference to film cameras from 1913. The dancing move called thread the needle is attested from 1844. Related: Threaded; threading.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Note that this code is fully thread safe .
- 2. It is very lightweight and not thread safe .
- 3. What about using a function with parameters in a thread ?
- 4. Indexing and searching are not only thread safe , but process safe .
- 5. Each thread has its own sequence of execution , but accesses common data .