thread
/ˈθɹɛd/ noun B2- A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.
- 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.). · the threads of a spiderweb
- A slender stream of water. · a thread of water
- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
- A screw thread.
- The continuing course of life; the thread of life.
- A line of reasoning, sequence of ideas, or train of thought. · I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying.
Plural threads
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“You can imagine, Watson, with what eagerness I listened to this extraordinary sequence of events, and endeavoured to piece them together, and to devise some common thread upon which they might all hang.
“Oh, no, for when I had taken out the thread I required, I hemmed the edges over again.”
“With this needle,” said the abbé, as, opening his ragged vestments, he showed Dantès a long, sharp fish-bone, with a small perforated eye for the thread, a small portion of which still remained in it.
Of course I have other reasons for thinking so—dozens of exiguous threads which lead vaguely up towards the centre of the web where the poisonous, motionless creature is lurking.
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