Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To draw out the thread from.
- v. To find one's way out of (a labyrinth, for example).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To draw or take out a thread from: as, to unthread a needle.
- To relax the ligaments of; loosen.
- To find one's way through.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To draw or take out a thread from.
- v. To deprive of ligaments; to loose the ligaments of.
- v. To make one's way through; to traverse.
Examples
“She is smart enough to best most of the girls and all of the boys in her math class, where complex variables and prime roots unthread themselves on the page, yielding their solutions before she can put the point of her pencil to the paper.”
“Gmail getting there but still needs unthread « Squash”
“I wonder if the bottle would unthread itself from the cap as you rode?”
“Now that GMail wants to be seen as a corporate email alternative, it desperately needs to introduce an unthread option.”
“In fact I think I read about 70% of that unthread and have been lurking here for the last 6 hours plus about 4 hours yesterday looking for urls that would help in a piece I am working on.”
“I was responding to something in #10 unthread as I said.”
“I unclip my harness from the supporting rope system, unthread the waist belt from its double-back safety ring, and drop the harness around my legs to my feet.”
“We tried to force it through coiled, but in the end had to take the end and laboriously unthread it. ”
“Feverishly I began to unwind and unthread the binding fiber on my ankles.”
“Exact knowledge of the dog, for instance, as to his power to discriminate color, to unthread a labyrinth, and the like, counts for so much less in the real values of human life than love and companionship with the dog, and appreciation of his natural capacity to get on in life.”
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