Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Forminga link with the windings of an electric circuit: said lines of force of a magnetic circuit passing through a coil of wire.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of thread.
  • noun An ancient Eastern method for removing hair by means of a thread, which is rolled over the hair in order to pluck it out at the follicle level.

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Examples

  • Stafford was picked as the game's MVP, completing his performance by showing a nice touch in threading a 21-yard TD pass to Moreno late in the fourth quarter.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • And some women use another pulling method, called threading, which is popular in Indian salons.

    Does Shaving Make Hair Grow Back Thicker? 2007

  • Well, a new shop in Ocala's Paddock Mall is offering a traditional Indian technique called threading that claims to be a less barbaric way to remove unwanted hair.

    Local News from Star-Banner Correspondent By Claire Parker 2010

  • Although no one is arguing about whether multicore processors are here to stay, there is some debate about threading, which is the process of dividing a program into multiple tasks, or threads, that run in parallel.

    Wireless Design Asia - Latest Updates 2009

  • Since we won't see anything from AMD's Bulldozer stable until the middle of next year at the earliest, not far from the first Sandy Bridge parts, tuning its six core parts for the extreme desktop may work well for AMD to grab some benchmark wins and, at least, effectively counter Intel's hyper-threading, which is helping Intel well in quite a few tests.

    freshnews.org - most clicked links 2009

  • In the original SquirrelFish announcement, we described our use of direct threading, which is about the fastest form of bytecode intepretation short of generating native code.

    fullasagoog.com full roast blend 2008

  • In the original SquirrelFish announcement, we described our use of direct threading, which is about the fastest form of bytecode intepretation short of generating native code.

    Surfin' Safari Dave Hyatt 2008

  • In the original SquirrelFish announcement, we described our use of direct threading, which is about the fastest form of bytecode intepretation short of generating native code.

    Surfin' Safari Adele Peterson 2008

  • In the original SquirrelFish announcement, we described our use of direct threading, which is about the fastest form of bytecode intepretation short of generating native code.

    random($foo) 2008

  • In the original SquirrelFish announcement, we described our use of direct threading, which is about the fastest form of bytecode intepretation short of generating native code.

    fullasagoog.com full roast blend 2008

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