Thread vs Cotton - What's the difference?
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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).
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To screw on, to fit the s of a nut on a bolt
A plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
Gossypium , a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.
(textiles) The textile made from the fiber harvested from the cotton plant.
(countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.
Made of cotton.
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English terms with multiple etymologies
As a noun thread
is thread (computing: unit of execution).As a proper noun cotton is
the name of several settlements around the world or cotton can be .thread
English
Noun
(en noun)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/2
- A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread .
Synonyms
* (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.
Derived terms
* threaded (as adjective) * multithreadedAnagrams
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(sewing needle) ----cotton
English
(cotton)Etymology 1
(etyl) cotoun, from (etyl) cotun, (etyl) coton, from (Genoese) (etyl) cotone, from (Egyptian) (etyl) , possibly originally from (etyl). Cognate to Dutch katoen, German Kattun, Italian cotone, SpanishNoun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* cotton candy * cottongrass * cotton pad * cotton picker * cottonseed * cotton stripper * cotton wool * cotton gin * cotton card * cotton blendAdjective
(-)citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
Etymology 2
1560s, either from (etyl) cydun, , literally “to be at one with”, or by metaphor with the textile, as cotton blended well with other textiles, notably wool in hat-making.Take Our Word For It: Issue 178, page 2]Folk-etymology: a dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy, Abram Smythe Palmer, G. Bell and Sons, 1882, [http://books.google.com/books?id=YX5BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA76&dq=cotton p. 76