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  1. noun Fine cord of a fibrous material, such as cotton or flax, made of two or more filaments twisted together and used in needlework and the weaving of cloth.
  2. noun A piece of such cord.
  3. noun A thin strand, cord, or filament of natural or manufactured material.
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strand ·  cord ·  wire ·  cloth ·  ribbon ·  string ·  fabric ·  bit ·  chain ·  sheet ·  web ·  bead

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thread:   threads ·  threading ·  threaded
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  1. Middle English, from Old English thrǣd; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also tired; also threed, whence, with shortened vowel, thrid; from Middle English threed, thred, threde. from Anglo-Saxon thRǣd = OFries. thrēd = Middle Dutch draed. D. draad = Old High German Middle High German drat, German draht, thread, wire. = Icelandic thrādhr = Swedish tråd = Danish traad = Gothic (Moesogothic) *lhrēths (not recorded), thread; literally‘that which is twisted’ (cf. twist, twine, thread); with formative -d, from Anglo-Saxon thrāwan, etc., twist, turn: see throw.
  2. Early modern English also thred; also threed, whence, with shortened vowel, thrid; from Middle English threden; from thread, n.
 

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