Thread vs Vein - What's the difference?
thread | vein |
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
(anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart
(used in plural veins ) The entrails of a shrimp
(botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle
(zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing
A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks
A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
* Jonathan Swift
A style, tendency, or quality.
* Francis Bacon
* Waller
A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
* Milton
* Isaac Newton
As nouns the difference between thread and vein
is that thread is thread (computing: unit of execution) while vein is .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) ----vein
English
(wikipedia vein)Noun
(en noun)- ...in the same vein ...
- He can open a vein of true and noble thinking.
- The play is in a satirical vein .
- certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
- Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein .
- down to the veins of earth
- Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins .