Noun

(en noun)

(lb) Prayer, later especially with a rosary.

*1760 , (Laurence Sterne), , Penguin 2003, p.115:

*:That he must believe in the Pope;—go to Mass;—cross himself;—tell his beads ;—be a good Catholick, and that this, in all conscience, was enough to carry him to heaven.

Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.

A small round object.

#A small round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire.

#A small round solid object.

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#A small drop of water or other liquid.

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#A bubble, in spirits.

#A small round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.

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(lb) A ridge, band, or molding.

#A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.

A knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.

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A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.

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Front sight of a gun.

Noun

(en noun)

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

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A theme or idea.

A screw thread.

A sequence of connections.

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The line midway between the banks of a stream.

(label) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, generally expected to share memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.

(label) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, all but the first replies to previous messages in the thread.

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

(label) Composition; quality; fineness.

* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread .