brethren | (noun) (plural) the lay members of a male religious order | - |
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goldthread | (noun) low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers | Synonyms: Coptis groenlandica, Coptis trifolia groenlandica, golden thread |
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packthread | (noun) a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages | - |
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thread | (noun) a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving | Synonyms: yarn |
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(noun) the raised helical rib going around a screw | Synonyms: screw thread |
(noun) the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together | Synonyms: train of thought |
(noun) any long object resembling a thin line | Synonyms: ribbon |
(verb) pass a thread through | - |
(verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: draw, string |
(verb) remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string | - |
(verb) pass through or into | - |
(verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, wander, weave, wind |
threadbare | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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(adjective) having the nap worn away so that the threads show through | - |
threaded | (adjective) (of bolts or screws) having screw threads | - |
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threader | (noun) a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops | Synonyms: bodkin |
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threadfin | (noun) mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays | - |
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threadfish | (noun) fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins | Synonyms: Alectis ciliaris, thread-fish |
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threadiness | (noun) The state or quality of consisting of or bearing fibers or filaments. | - |
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threadlike | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, thready |
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threads | (noun) informal terms for clothing | Synonyms: duds, togs |
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threadworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, pinworm |
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thready | (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, stringy |
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(adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, threadlike |
threat | (noun) a warning that something unpleasant is imminent | - |
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(noun) declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another | - |
(noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: scourge, terror |
(noun) something that is a source of danger | Synonyms: menace |
threaten | (verb) to utter intentions of injury or punishment against | - |
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(verb) to be a menacing indication of something | - |
(verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril |
threatened | (adjective) (of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered | - |
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threatening | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister |
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(adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, lowering, sullen |
threateningly | (adverb) in a menacing manner | Synonyms: menacingly |
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three | (adjective) being one more than two | Synonyms: 3, iii |
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(noun) one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips | Synonyms: trey |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
threefold | (adjective) three times as great or many | Synonyms: three-fold, treble, triple |
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(adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, dual, three-fold, treble, two-fold, twofold |
(adverb) by a factor of three | Synonyms: three times |
threepence | (noun) former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies | - |
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threepenny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: sixpenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny |
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(adjective) used of nail size; 1 1/4 in long | - |
threescore | (adjective) being ten more than fifty | Synonyms: 60, lx, sixty |
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(noun) a set with 3 times 20 members | - |
threesome | (noun) three people considered as a unit | Synonyms: triad, trinity, trio |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
threnody | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, dirge, lament, requiem |
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threonine | (noun) a colorless crystalline amino acid found in protein; occurs in the hydrolysates of certain proteins; an essential component of human nutrition | - |
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thresh | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, lam, thrash |
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(verb) beat the seeds out of a grain | Synonyms: thrash |
(verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh about, toss |
(verb) move like a flail; thresh about | Synonyms: flail |
thresher | (noun) large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed | Synonyms: Alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thrasher, thresher shark |
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(noun) a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw | Synonyms: thrasher, threshing machine |
threshing | (noun) the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw | - |
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threshold | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorsill, doorstep |
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(noun) the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close | Synonyms: door, doorway, room access |
(noun) the smallest detectable sensation | Synonyms: limen |
(noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: brink, verge |
(noun) the starting point for a new state or experience | - |
unthreatening | (adjective) not unfriendly or threatening | Synonyms: well-meaning |
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