Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Thready character or condition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality of being thready.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
thready .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Open threadiness: Free book or rather, galley giveaway of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, who died in 1951 but lives on through HeLa, the first immortal cell line.
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More open-threadiness: the New Yorker profiles Nobel-winning economist and SF convention attender Paul Krugman.
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Open threadiness: Teach For America is looking for a NYC-based Front-end developer / web designer
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Open threadiness: I am almost literally dancing with geeky joy.
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Open threadiness, related to the bullying thread a while back: MSNBC article on lingering health effects of chronic bullying
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Open threadiness: if you haven't read the personal ads in the London Review of Books, you're missing out.
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Open threadiness: This post talks about a sad contradiction between Obama's rhetoric and actions, this time on lobbyist-friendliness.
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Open threadiness: Germans not liking the Google StreetView car. video, language NSFW
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Open-threadiness: "Weather improves to allow evacuations of Machu Picchu tourists."
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Open-threadiness: I wonder how many news stories have been released or allowed to come out in the last few days, specifically to hide in the shadow of the Haitian earthquake.
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