Thread : 실, (실/비즈/올리브 등을)꿰다, (이야기의)맥락, 가닥, 대댓글꾸러미, 나사산, 나삿니, (비격식)옷, (실 같이 가느다란)줄기, 가닥, 요리조리 빠져나가다, (헤어 표면을)털다, 빗다, (옷등의)풀린 실, 엉성한 실, (두 개 이상의 사물을 줄 같은 것에) 꿰다, 엮다, 실에 걸다, 스레드(컴퓨터 상의 하나의 주제에 대해 회원들이 게시란에 올린 일련의 의견)
1)
Thread, if you want to sew a something, you need a needle and thread
it's a very long thin piece of fiber that you use for sewing
this is the basic meaning of thread
I need to thread the needle
it's flexible but notice it's very thin, whereas string is much thicker
you thread the beads through a little hole of beads
olives threaded onto a cocktail stick
2)
we also use this word thread
to talk about a theme or an idea that goes all of the way through something
all of his stories have a common thread, a common idea that runs through them
you could lose the thread of what you are saying
I've lost the thread of what I was saying
the sequence, it is the line of what you are doing
a book can have a thread, it's the way that the different parts connect together
3)
a thread in internet
a thread is somebody types a message or a comment, and then somebody comments to that comment, and there are more and more comments that comes underneath
they are all spawned and created from the original firist message and this is a thread
it's a effectively a line of messages or a line of comments
you've got a thread on internet where people are talking about the same subject
4)
a screw, inside bit that goes round and round on the end
the bit that grips and goes into the wood that is the thread
you have the thread of the screw
manybe you have a nut and a bolt and you thread the nut into the bolt
if you get the nut cross threaded and it doesn't follow the thread and then you are going to have it a terrible problem
you've got the thread on a screw, this raised line that goes into the hole or one a bolt as well
the thread of a screw or a nut, this is the helix that goes around the edge of it
5)
you could have threads plural, meaning clothes, which is a vey informal word for clothes
effectively texiles or cloth is made of threads going up and across
do you like my new threads?, but that's very imformal way of use
my natty threads, my beautiful new clothes
good looking threads, good looking clothes
6)
a thread, a long line of something
a threed of light shone through the curtain
there was a thread of sunshine that came through the clouds
7)
to thread your way through something
to move chaning direction
If you ride a motorbike, you can thread your way through the traffic
I threaded my way through the crowd
to thread your way between people or between objects
8)
you can also use, to thread
you can remove hair with a long thin thread by rubbing it on the surface
to thread, to have your eyebrows threaded
9)
there is a loose thread
if you have a piece of clothing and there's a loose thread and you pull it manybe
a loose thread
10)
to thread, to connect different thoughts together
to put something through the eye of a needle
11)
a long strand of cotton or nyloon for sewing
12)
a long line
the fishing thread
there were threads of siver or gray in his hair
13)
main theme running through a situation through a story
you could lose youre thread or your train of thought
14)
In computing, it's a structure with different links that the separate elements of a subroutine
15)
he threaded the rope through the pulley
16)
to put something on a thread
the cannibal had human skulls which had been threaded and put around his neck
17)
to be hanging by a thread
if somehting's haning by a thread, it's in a very dangerous precarious situation
Formality : 5 for all (except for threads meaning for clothes, which could be for 3 Formality)
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