thread : Idioms & Phrases

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adam's needle-and-thread

  • noun yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
    spoonleaf yucca; needle palm; Adam's needle; Yucca filamentosa.
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Air thread

  • the fine white filaments which are seen floating in the air in summer, the production of spiders; gossamer.
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Air threads

  • gossamer.
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Floating threads

  • (Weaving), threads which span several other threads without being interwoven with them, in a woven fabric.
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Floss thread

  • a kind of soft flaxen yarn or thread, used for embroidery; called also linen floss, and floss yarn.
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Gold thread

  • . (a) A thread formed by twisting flatted gold over a thread of silk, with a wheel and iron bobbins; spun gold. Ure. (b) (Bot.) A small evergreen plant (Coptis trifolia), so called from its fibrous yellow roots. It is common in marshy places in the United States.
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golden thread

  • noun low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers
    goldthread; Coptis groenlandica; Coptis trifolia groenlandica.
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hang by a thread

  • verb depend on a small thing or be at risk
    hang by a hair.
    • His life now hangs by a thread
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Lisle thread

  • noun a strong tightly twisted cotton thread (usually made of long-staple cotton)
    lisle.
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  • a hard twisted cotton thread, originally produced at Lisle.
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Male thread

  • the thread of a male screw.
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Screw thread

  • noun the raised helical rib going around a screw
    thread.
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  • the spiral which forms a screw.
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Thread and thrum

  • the good and bad together. Obs. Shak.
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thread blight

  • noun a disease of tropical woody plants (cacao or tea or citrus)
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Thread cell

  • (Zoöl.), a lasso cell. See under Lasso.
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Thread herring

  • (Zoöl.), the gizzard shad. See under Gizzard.
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Thread lace

  • lace made of linen thread.
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thread maker

  • noun someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
    spinner; spinster.
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Thread needle

  • a game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding his neighbor, runs between the others; called also thread the needle.
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thread-fish

  • noun fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins
    threadfish; Alectis ciliaris.
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thread-shaped

Thread"-shaped` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having the form of a thread; filiform.
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