n.
1.
1. Fine cord of a fibrous material, such as cotton or flax, made of two or more filaments twisted together and used in needlework and the weaving of cloth.
2. A piece of such cord.
2.
1. A thin strand, cord, or filament of natural or manufactured material.
2. Something that suggests the fineness or thinness of such a strand, cord, or filament: a thread of smoke.
3. Something that suggests the continuousness of such a strand, cord, or filament: lost the thread of his argument.
3. A helical or spiral ridge on a screw, nut, or bolt.
4. Computer Science.
1. A portion of a program that can run independently of and concurrently with other portions of the program.
2. A set of posts on a newsgroup, composed of an initial post about a topic and all responses to it.
5. threads Slang. Clothes.
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