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Tuck vs Thread - What's the difference?

tuck | thread |

As nouns the difference between tuck and thread

is that tuck is an act of tucking ; a pleat or fold or tuck can be (archaic) a rapier, a sword or tuck can be the beat of a drum or tuck can be food, especially snack food while thread is thread (computing: unit of execution).

As a verb tuck

is (lb) to pull or gather up (an item of fabric).

tuck

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at touch.

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
  • (lb) To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.
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  • *:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
  • (lb) To fit neatly.
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  • To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
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  • To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
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  • To full, as cloth.
  • To conceal one’s genitals, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
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  • (lb) To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
    • Antonyms
    * untuck
    Derived terms
    * tuck away * tuck in * tuck into * nip and tuck

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of tucking ; a pleat or fold.
  • (sewing) A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
  • A curled position.
  • (medicine, surgery) A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
  • (music, piano, when playing scales on piano keys) The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
  • (diving) A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
    • Related terms
    * tucker

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A rapier, a sword.
  • * 1663 , (Hudibras) , by (Samuel Butler), part 1,
    • [...] with force he labour'd / To free's blade from retentive scabbard; / And after many a painful pluck, / From rusty durance he bail'd tuck [...]
    (Shakespeare)
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • He wore large hose, and a tuck , as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length.

    Etymology 3

    Compare tocsin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The beat of a drum.

    • Etymology 4

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Food, especially snack food.
    • Derived terms
    * tuck shop * tuck box * tuck in ----

    thread

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/2
    • , 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)
    • A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread .

    Synonyms

    * (theme) topic

    Derived terms

    * hang by a thread * quadruple thread * screw thread * thread count * thread necromancy * thread pool * threadbare * threader * thready

    Verb

  • To put thread through.
    • thread a needle
  • To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
    • I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight.
  • * 2013 , Ben Smith, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24503988]", BBC Sport , 19 October 2013:
    • 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.
  • To screw on, to fit the s of a nut on a bolt

    • Derived terms

    * threaded (as adjective) * multithreaded

    Anagrams

    * * *

    See also

    (sewing needle) ----