THREADS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does threads mean? 

• THREADS (noun)
  The noun THREADS has 1 sense:

1. informal terms for clothing

  Familiarity information: THREADS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THREADS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal terms for clothing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

duds; threads; togs

Hypernyms ("threads" is a kind of...):

article of clothing; clothing; habiliment; vesture; wear; wearable (a covering designed to be worn on a person's body)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

The cells also produced high levels of modified tau, which formed threads in the 3-D culture.

(Human Cells Model Alzheimer’s Disease, NIH)

So she sat down and tried to spin; but the threads cut her tender fingers till the blood ran.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The doctor threads a thin tube through a blood vessel in the arm or groin up to the involved site in the artery.

(Angioplasty, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The determination of the number of mucous threads present in a sample.

(Mucous Thread Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

Different threads, but leading up to the same tangle.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In one, sailors were singing at their work, in another there were men aloft, high over my head, hanging to threads that seemed no thicker than a spider's.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A measurement of the mucous threads present in a biological specimen.

(Mucous Thread Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

These threads are proposed as prizes for those persons whom the emperor has a mind to distinguish by a peculiar mark of his favour.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

You can find many options, too many to list, and so consider this idea, for you can weave a beautiful memory with golden threads.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forests.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)