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# thread

«thread» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long, thin string of cotton, silk or nylon used for sewing** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (thread, threads); verb (thread, threads, threaded, threading)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Thread is a long, thin string of cotton, silk or nylon used for sewing. A spool or reel holds a lot of thread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#m1)

2) A thread is one line of ideas in a story or talk: «I lost the thread». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#m2)

3) A thread online is a list of messages about one topic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#m3)

4) To thread a needle is to push thread through its hole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#m4)

5) To thread beads is to put them on a string. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#m5)

6) The thread of a screw is the spiral ridge around it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a thing measured in length (metres, centimetres, inches) or counted in spools; pieces cut from a long thread (cuts = pieces − 1); thread per button. In everyday life and crafts: sewing on a button, threading beads, embroidery. In stories: the Greek hero Theseus used a thread to find his way out of the maze. Phrases: «a needle and thread», «thread a needle», «hang by a thread» (be in great danger), «lose the thread».

### examples

- A spool has 50 metres of thread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#x1)
- She cuts the thread into 5 equal pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#x2)
- Each button needs 20 cm of thread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#x3)
- How much thread is left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#x4)
- Grandma threaded the needle and sewed on my button. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#x5)
- We threaded beads onto a string. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#x6)
- Theseus followed a thread to escape the maze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#x7)
- His life was hanging by a thread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#x8)
- In Labakan’s box was found—a large needle with some thread! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/#x9)

### note

Uncountable for the material («some thread»), countable for pieces («a thread», «threads»). The «ea» says «e»: «thred». Maths: a length to share or cut: equal pieces often mean division; change metres to centimetres first (1 metre is 100 centimetres). Trap: cutting a thread into 5 pieces needs only 4 cuts.

### In the corpora

- [Dew collects on the cool threads at night and shows how many webs there are, often thousands in a garden in autumn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs/16/)
- [Pull one thread and the whole web moves, like a spider's web when one strand is touched.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food/5/)
- [The smell is «the fine filament, the telegraphic current» (a thin thread, like a telegraph wire's signal).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/23/)
- [Mould sends threads deep into soft food, so cutting off the visible spot does not make soft food like strawberries safe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/12/)
- [The berry's colour molecules have stuck to the threads of the cloth: that is exactly what a dye does.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thread» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thread/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.