thread – English noun declension

English noun forms of thread

Noun: thread
Singularthread
Pluralthreads

Sample Sentences

  • Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 234:]
  • the threads of a spiderweb
  • 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. [1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:]
  • a thread of water
  • I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying.
  • I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings. [1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII:]
  • ‘Let him go on. Do not interrupt him. He cannot go back, and maybe could not proceed at all if once he lost the thread of his thought.’ [1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 21:]
  • All of these essays have a common thread.
  • a life hanging by a thread
  • A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread. [1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]

Etymology

1. From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s, from *terh₁- (“rub, twist”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Yola dreade (“thread”), Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), Cimbrian draat (“string, thread”), Dutch draad (“thread, wire”), German Draht (“thread, wire”), Luxembourgish Drot (“wire”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish tråd (“thread, wire”), Faroese tráður (“thread”), Icelandic þráður (“thread”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw. See: Middle English Nouns 'thred', Dutch Nouns 'draad', German Nouns 'Draht', Swedish Nouns 'tråd', Faroese Nouns 'tráður', Icelandic Nouns 'þráður'.

Verbs referencing "thread"

French Nouns thread, Italian Nouns thread, German Nouns Draht, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns tråd, Swedish Nouns tråd, Russian Nouns тред.