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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thread \Thread\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Threaded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Threading}.]
     1. To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a
        needle.
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     2. To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect
        or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to
        thrid.
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              Heavy trading ships . . . threading the Bosphorus.
                                                    --Mitford.
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              They would not thread the gates.      --Shak.
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     3. To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a
        screw or nut.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thread \Thread\ (thr[e^]d), n. [OE. threed, [thorn]red, AS.
     [thorn]r[=ae]d; akin to D. draad, G. draht wire, thread, OHG.
     dr[=a]t, Icel. [thorn]r[=a][eth]r a thread, Sw. tr[*a]d, Dan.
     traad, and AS. [thorn]r[=a]wan to twist. See {Throw}, and cf.
     {Third}.]
     1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other
        fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a
        compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns
        doubled, or joined together, and twisted; also, one fiber
        of a cord composed of multiple fibers.
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     2. A filament of any substance, as of glass, gold or silver;
        a filamentous part of an object, such as a flower; a
        component fiber of any or of any fibrous substance, as of
        bark.
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     3. The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the
        rib. See {Screw}, n., 1.
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     4. (Fig.) Something continued in a long course or tenor; a
        recurrent theme or related sequence of events in a larger
        story; as the thread of a story, or of life, or of a
        discourse. --Bp. Burnet.
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     5. Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness. [Obs.]
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              A neat courtier,
              Of a most elegant thread.             --B. Jonson.
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     6. (Computers) A related sequence of instructions or actions
        within a program that runs at least in part independent of
        other actions within the program; -- such threads are
        capable of being executed only in oprating systems
        permittnig multitasking.
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     7. (Computers) A sequence of messages posted to an on-line
        newsgroup or discussion group, dealing with the same
        topic; -- messages in such a thread typically refer to a
        previous posting, thus allowing their identification as
        part of the thread. Some news-reading programs allow a
        user to follow a single such thread independent of the
        other postings to that newsgroup.
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     {Air thread}, the fine white filaments which are seen
        floating in the air in summer, the production of spiders;
        gossamer.
  
     {Thread and thrum}, the good and bad together. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
     {Thread cell} (Zool.), a lasso cell. See under {Lasso}.
  
     {Thread herring} (Zool.), the gizzard shad. See under
        {Gizzard}.
  
     {Thread lace}, lace made of linen thread.
  
     {Thread needle}, a game in which children stand in a row,
        joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding
        his neighbor, runs between the others; -- called also
        {thread the needle}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  thread
       n 1: a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or
            nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving [syn: {yarn}]
       2: any long object resembling a thin line; "a mere ribbon of
          land"; "the lighted ribbon of traffic"; "from the air the
          road was a gray thread"; "a thread of smoke climbed
          upward" [syn: {ribbon}]
       3: the connections that link the various parts of an event or
          argument together; "I couldn't follow his train of
          thought"; "he lost the thread of his argument" [syn: {train
          of thought}]
       4: the raised helical rib going around a screw [syn: {screw
          thread}]
       v 1: to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular
            course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path
            meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout
            wanders through the entire body" [syn: {weave}, {wind},
            {meander}, {wander}]
       2: pass a thread through; "thread a needle"
       3: remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and
          pulling at the string; "She had her eyebrows threaded"
       4: pass through or into; "thread tape"; "thread film"
       5: thread on or as if on a string; "string pearls on a string";
          "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried
          cranberries" [syn: {string}, {draw}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  157 Moby Thesaurus words for "thread":
     Aralac, Avisco, Celanese, Chemstrand, Dacron, Dynel, Indian file,
     Lastex, Manila, Orlon, Terylene, Velon, Vicara, acetate rayon,
     alpaca, angora, animal fiber, array, articulation,
     artificial fiber, bank, bast, be continuous, buzz, cambric tea,
     capillament, cashmere, catena, catenate, catenation, chain,
     chain reaction, chaining, cilium, cirrus, cobweb, coir,
     concatenate, concatenation, connect, connect up, connection,
     consecution, continuate, continue, continuum, cord, cotton, course,
     cycle, denier, descent, direction, dishwater, drift, drone, ease,
     endless belt, endless round, fiber, fibrilla, filament,
     filamentule, file, filiation, flagellum, flax, floss,
     form a series, gamut, gossamer, gradation, gruel, hair, hank, hemp,
     horsehair, house of cards, hum, inch, join, jute, kapok, line,
     lineage, linen, link, llama hair, maintain continuity, matchwood,
     merino, milk and water, mohair, monotone, motif, near-silk, nexus,
     nylon, oakum, pass, pendulum, periodicity, plenum, plot,
     powder train, progression, queue, raffia, range, rank, rayon,
     recurrence, reed, reticulation, rope of sand, rotation, round,
     routine, row, run, run on, sand castle, scale, sequence, series,
     silk, single file, sisal, skein, spandex, spectrum, spun rayon,
     strand, string, string together, subject, succession, suture,
     swath, tendril, tenor, theme, thesis, threadlet, tier, train,
     train of thought, tussah, twine, water, web, wind, windrow, wool,
     worsted, yarn, zephyr
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  thread n. [Usenet, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of `topic
     thread', a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic.
     To `follow a thread' is to read a series of Usenet postings sharing a
     common subject or (more correctly) which are connected by Reference
     headers. The better newsreaders can present news in thread order
     automatically. Not to be confused with the techspeak sense of `thread',
     e.g. a lightweight process.
  
     Interestingly, this is far from a neologism. The OED says: "That which
     connects the successive points in anything, esp. a narrative, train of
     thought, or the like; the sequence of events or ideas continuing
     throughout the whole course of anything;" Citations are given going back
     to 1642!
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  thread
       
          1. See {multithreading}.
       
          2. See {threaded code}.
       
          3. {topic thread}.
       
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