THREADED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does threaded mean? 

• THREADED (adjective)
  The adjective THREADED has 1 sense:

1. (of bolts or screws) having screw threads

  Familiarity information: THREADED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THREADED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of bolts or screws) having screw threads

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

screw thread (the raised helical rib going around a screw)

 Context examples 

“I wish you'd go upstairs,” said my aunt, as she threaded her needle, “and give my compliments to Mr. Dick, and I'll be glad to know how he gets on with his Memorial.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A non-threaded shallow draw metal closure that normally has 21 corrugations on the outer edge, which function to engage the container when applied.

(Crown Metal Container Closure, Food and Drug Administration)

A threaded fastener designed to engage a bolt.

(Nut Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

It was a sight to see how my uncle threaded his way amongst them all.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A thin, flexible tube that is inserted into a vein in the upper arm and guided (threaded) into a large vein near the heart called the vena cava.

(Peripherally inserted central catheter, NCI Dictionary)

No lights burned in the upper hall, but Brissenden threaded the utter blackness like a familiar ghost.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A shunt (a long, thin tube) is placed in a ventricle of the brain and threaded under the skin to another part of the body, usually the abdomen.

(Cerebrospinal fluid diversion, NCI Dictionary)

The coracle, left to herself, turning from side to side, threaded, so to speak, her way through these lower parts and avoided the steep slopes and higher, toppling summits of the wave.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Holmes seemed to know the grounds perfectly, and he threaded his way swiftly among a plantation of small trees, I close at his heels, and our foremost pursuer panting behind us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It involves the placement of a shunt in a ventricle of the brain that is threaded under the skin to another part of the body.

(Cerebrospinal fluid diversion, NCI Thesaurus)