How to pronounce “thread”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.
• (weaving) A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.
• Any of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.).
• A slender stream of water.
• The line midway between the banks of a stream.
• (engineering) A screw thread.
• The continuing course of life; thread of life.
• An ordered course, that which connects the successive points in a discourse.
• (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
• (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.
• A sequence of connections.
• A precarious condition; something that which offers no real or otherwise perceived security.
• (figurative, obsolete) The degree of fineness; quality; nature.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.
• (transitive) To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string.
• (transitive, figurative) To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
• (transitive, figurative) To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate.
• (transitive) To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse.
• (transitive) To form a screw thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).
• (ambitransitive) To remove (facial hair) by way of a looped thread that is tightly wound in the middle.
• (ambitransitive) To feed (a sewing machine or otherwise a projecting or exposing mechanism, such as a projector, a camera, etc.) with film. [(usually) with up]
• (transitive) To pass (a film or tape) through a projector, recorder, etc. so as to correct its path.
• (intransitive) Of boiling syrup: To form a threadlike stream when poured from a spoon.

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