A fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving.

synoniem: yarn.

Roget 160: weakness etc. adj.; debility, atony^†, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence etc. 158; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality^†; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity etc. 683.    anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood.    declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength; delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia^†, adynamy^†, cachexy^†, cachexia [Med.], sprain, strain.    reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards.    softling^†, weakling; infant etc. 129; youth etc. 127.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 69: continuity; consecution, consecutiveness etc. adj.; succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain; catenation, concatenation; scale; gradation, course; ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent.    procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array.    pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race; ancestry, descent, family, house; line, line of ancestors; strain.    rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit; colonnade.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 205: filament, line; fiber, fibril; funicle^†, vein; hair, capillament^†, cilium, cilia, pilus, pili; tendril, gossamer; hair stroke; veinlet^†, venula^†, venule^†.    wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute.    strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving.    beard etc. (roughness) 256; ramification; strand.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: draad, garen
Pools: nić, nitka, niteczka

Any long object resembling a thin line:
— From the air the road was a grey thread.
— A thread of smoke climbed upward.

synoniem: ribbon.

Nederlands: garen, onderwerp, rode draad
Pools: pasmo, smuga, warkocz

The connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together:
— He lost the thread of his argument.

synoniem: train of thought.

Nederlands: draad
Pools: wątek

The raised helical rib going around a screw.

synoniem: screw thread.

Nederlands: onderwerp, topic, spoed
Pools: gwint

To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.

synoniemen: meander, wander, weave, wind.

Roget 69: follow in a series, form a series etc. n.; fall in.    arrange in a series, collate etc. n.; string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort, tabulate.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 302: pass, pass through; perforate etc. (hole) 260; penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid^†, enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over; cut across; ford, cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread one's way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage; cut one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear the course; traverse, go over the ground.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 60: reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally.    arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion.    class, classify; divide; file, string together, thread; register etc. (record) 551; catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade.    methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix.    unravel, disentangle, ravel, card; disembroil^†; feaze^†.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: meanderen

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:
— Thread dried cranberries.

synoniemen: draw, string.

Nederlands: rijgen