Thread vs Threat - 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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, passage=He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.}}
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
An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
* (William Shakespeare)
An indication of imminent danger.
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, title= A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= (label) To press; urge; compel.
(archaic) To threaten.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
* 1599 , , V. i. 37:
(label) To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.
In transitive terms the difference between thread and threat
is that thread is to pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles) while threat is to press; urge; compel.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
* * *See also
(sewing needle) ----threat
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), .Noun
(en noun)- There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats .
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Bulgaria 0-3 England, passage=Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- An hideous Geant horrible and hye, / That with his talnesse seemd to threat the skye
- O yes, and soundless too; / For you have stolen their buzzing, Antony, / And very wisely threat before you sting.