THREADS

togs, threads, duds

(noun) informal terms for clothing

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

threads

plural of thread

Noun

threads pl (plural only)

(slang) Clothes.

Verb

threads

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thread

Anagrams

• Deharts, dearths, hard-set, hardest, hatreds, heardst, hetdars, sharted, trashed

Source: Wiktionary


THREAD

Thread, n. Etym: [OE. threed, , AS. ; akin to D. draad, G. draht wire, thread, OHG. drat, Icel. a thread, Sw. tråd, Dan. traad, and AS. 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.

2. A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.

3. The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.

4. Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse. Bp. Burnet.

5. Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness. [Obs.] A neat courtier, Of a most elegant thread. B. Jonson. 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 (Zoöl.), a lasso cell. See under Lasso.

– Thread herring (Zoöl.), 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.

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.

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. Heavy trading ships . . . threading the Bosphorus. Mitford. They would not thread the gates. Shak.

3. To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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