Terms vs Threadwork - What's the difference?
terms | threadwork |
Work made with, or as if with, threads.
* 1996 , Helen M. Jewell, Women in Medieval England (page 35)
* 2005 , William David Shaw, Babel and the ivory tower: the scholar in the age of science (page xii)
* 2008 , Benjamin F. Shearer, Culture and Customs of the United States: Culture (page 358)
* 2009 , Erica James, Precious Time
As nouns the difference between terms and threadwork
is that terms is while threadwork is work made with, or as if with, threads.threadwork
English
Noun
- Fine embroidery, especially gold threadwork , was of course a specialised skill, done for rich patrons, not the stitchcraft of hovels.
- Though the Muse of higher learning cannot be cloned, she allows the prophet, rebel, and poet to soar, and the scholiast to weave intricate threadworks of commentary and gloss.
- New Mexico artist Lauren Camp (1966-) designs colorful threadworks about jazz because she claims to be able to hear colours and shapes in the music.
- An hour later, and with the M6 behind them, Clara took the B5470 out of Macclesfield and found herself driving through rolling hills of lush green farmland criss-crossed with a threadwork of drystone walls.