Suture vs Thread - What's the difference?
suture | thread |
A seam formed by sewing two edges (especially of skin) together.
Thread used to sew two edges (especially of skin) together; stitch.
(geology) An area where separate terranes join together along a major fault.
(anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
(anatomy) A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.
to sew up or join by means of a suture
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)
To put thread through.
To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
* 2013 , Ben Smith, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24503988]", BBC Sport , 19 October 2013:
To screw on, to fit the s of a nut on a bolt
As a verb suture
is .As a noun thread is
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(wikipedia suture)Noun
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- A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread .
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* (theme) topicDerived terms
* hang by a thread * quadruple thread * screw thread * thread count * thread necromancy * thread pool * threadbare * threader * threadyVerb
- thread a needle
- I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight.
- Picking the ball up in his own half, Januzaj threaded a 40-yard pass into the path of Rooney to slice Southampton open in the blink of an eye.
