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THREADS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Informal terms for clothing
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("threads" is a kind of...):
article of clothing; clothing; habiliment; vesture; wear; wearable (a covering designed to be worn on a person's body)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb thread
Context examples:
As I had long forborne to encourage him with hopes that hung on threads, I made no other comment on this information than that I supposed he would see her soon.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
That rosy cheeks don't last forever, that silver threads will come in the bonnie brown hair, and that, by-and-by, kindness and respect will be as sweet as love and admiration now.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I have the threads of this affair all in my hand.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Either of the two longitudinally adjacent threads formed when a eukaryotic chromosome replicates prior to mitosis.
(Chromatid, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Cleavage of fibrinogen by thrombin releases the fibrin monomers that auto-polymerize within seconds into fibrin threads or fibers.
(Fibrinolysis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient pace, do things over and over such as opening closets or drawers, or repeatedly pick at things or wind string or threads?
(NPI - Pace, Do Things Over and Over, Repeatedly Pick at Things, NCI Thesaurus)
The parts of chromosomes that, during interphase, are uncoiled dispersed threads and not stained by ordinary dyes; metabolically active, in contrast to the inert heterochromatin.
(Euchromatin, NCI Thesaurus)
Granular leukocytes having a nucleus with three to five lobes connected by slender threads of chromatin, and cytoplasm containing fine inconspicuous granules and stainable by neutral dyes.
(Neutrophil, NCI Thesaurus)
The writing of it was the culminating act of a long mental process, the drawing together of scattered threads of thought and the final generalizing upon all the data with which his mind was burdened.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Their NeuroGrid consists of a collection of tiny electrodes linked together like the threads of a blanket, which is then laid across an area of the brain so that each electrode can continuously monitor the activity of a different set of neurons.
(Study shows how memories ripple through the brain, National Institutes of Health)
