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Treaded vs Trod - What's the difference?

treaded | trod |

As verbs the difference between treaded and trod

is that treaded is past tense of tread while trod is simple past of tread.

treaded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tread)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    tread

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) treden, from (etyl) {{term, tredan, , to tread, step on, trample, traverse, pass over, enter upon, roam through , lang=ang}}, from (etyl) , Norwegian treda.

    Verb

  • To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
    • He trod back and forth wearily.
    Don't tread on the lawn.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Fools rush in where angels fear to tread .
  • * Milton
    • ye that stately tread , or lowly creep
  • To step or walk upon.
    • Actors tread the boards.
  • To beat or press with the feet.
    • to tread''' a path; to '''tread''' land when too light; a well-'''trodden path
  • To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem.
  • * Shakespeare
    • They have measured many a mile, / To tread a measure with you on this grass.
  • To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
  • * Bible, Psalms xliv. 5
    • Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
  • To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (of a male bird) To copulate with.
    • (Chaucer)
  • (tread)
    • Usage notes
    * "(term)" is not commonly used in the UK and is less common in the US as well. It is apparently used more often in (tread water). * (term) is sometimes used as a past and past participle, especially in the US.
    Derived terms
    * betread * * tread water * untrod * treading on eggshells Use of expression in delicate situations; be nice

    Etymology 2

    From the above verb.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A step.
  • A manner of stepping.
  • * Tennyson
    • She is coming, my own, my sweet; / Were it ever so airy a tread , / My heart would hear her and beat.
  • (obsolete) A way; a track or path.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
  • The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
  • The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
  • The sound made when someone or something is walking.
  • * 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
    • The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll. Utterson sighed. "Is there never anything else?" he asked.
  • * 1896 , (Bret Harte), Barker's Luck and Other Stories
    • But when, after a singularly heavy tread and the jingle of spurs on the platform, the door flew open to the newcomer, he seemed a realization of our worst expectations.
  • (biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
  • The act of copulation in birds.
  • (fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
  • A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
    • Synonyms
    * (horizontal part of a step) run
    Antonyms
    * (horizontal part of a step) rise, riser
    Derived terms
    *

    See also

    * (wikipedia)

    Anagrams

    *

    References

    trod

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tread)
    • English irregular simple past forms

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (trodd)
  • To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread
  • * 1813 , The Parliamentary history of England from the earliest period to the year 1803
  • *:Sir ; to me the noble lord seems to trod close in the foot-steps of his fellow-labourers in the ministerial vineyard, and u crow over us with the same reason
  • * 1833 , Timothy Flint, The history and geography of the Mississippi Valley
    • It renders the paths, and the banks of the bayous in that region almost impassable in autumn, until the cattle have trodded it down.
  • * 1866 , Fanny Fisher, Ainsworth's heir
  • *:They bore him to his chamber, where he lay all pale and tearless, like some broken reed, Some helpless shrub, all crushed and trodded down
  • * 1895 , Uchimura Kanzo, The Diary of a Japanese Convert
  • *:Yet alas! I see around me the trodding of the same old paths, each trying to excel the other how to ape the good old ministers who were "very much liked by their parishioners."
  • * 1962 , American Motorcyclist , February, page 16
  • *:Land of mystery and enchantment, continent of contrast and extremes, where adventure awaits those who dare to defy convention and choose to trod the unfamiliar path.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 23, author=Matt Weiland, title=Walker in the City, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Happily, he writes the way he walks: at a vigorous lope, both attentive to the varied soils of the ground he trods and curious about the dust and dandelions over the next hill. }}
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 18, author=Sonia Day, title=Nip that gardening zeal in the bud, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=And avoid trodding on the inevitably wet soil around the base of the shrubs as you work. }} ----