threads

A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.

A continued theme or idea.

“All of these essays have a common thread.”

A screw thread.

A sequence of connections.

The line midway between the banks of a stream.

A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.

A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.

A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.

Composition; quality; fineness.

To put thread through.

“thread a needle”

To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).

“I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight.”

To screw on, to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt

Clothes.