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- A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.
- A theme or idea.
- All of these essays have a common thread.
- I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying.
- A sequence of connections.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII
- I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- "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."
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII
- A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, all but the first replies to previous messages in the thread.
- A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, generally expected to share memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- A helical ridge or groove, as on a screw.
- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
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