<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a fine cord of flax, cotton, or other fibrous material spun out to considerable length, especially when composed of two or more filaments twisted together</li><li>twisted filaments or fibers of any kind used for sewing</li><li>one of the lengths of yarn forming the warp or weft of a woven fabric</li><li>a filament or fiber of glass or other ductile substance</li><li>any of a number of fibers twisted into a yarn</li><li>something having the fineness or slenderness of a filament, as a thin continuous stream of liquid, a fine line of color, or a thin seam of ore: a thread of smoke</li><li>the helical ridge of a screw</li><li>that which runs through the whole course of something, connecting successive parts: I lost the thread of the story</li><li>something conceived as being spun or continuously drawn out, as the course of life fabled to be spun, measured, and cut by the Fates</li><li>Digital Technology. a series of posts and responses on a message board or electronic mailing list that deal with the same subject and are grouped together</li><li>threads, Slang. clothes</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to pass the end of a thread through the eye of (a needle)</li><li>to fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; string</li><li>to pass continuously through the whole course of (something); pervade: A joyous quality threaded the whole symphony</li><li>to make one's way through (a narrow passage, forest, crowd, etc.)</li><li>to form a thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.)</li><li>to place and arrange thread, yarn, etc., in position on (a sewing machine, loom, textile machine, etc.)</li><li>to remove (facial hair, especially eyebrow hair) by using a looped and twisted thread to roll over the hair and lift it from the follicles</li><li>(used without object) to thread one's way, as through a passage or between obstacles: They threaded carefully along the narrow pass</li><li>to move in a threadlike course; wind or twine</li><li>Cooking. (of boiling syrup) to form a fine thread when poured from a spoon</li></ul>