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THREADED
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I. (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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb thread
Context examples:
Another field crossed—a lane threaded—and there were the courtyard walls—the back offices: the house itself, the rookery still hid.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The uproar of his advent had not yet died away when Professor Ronald Murray, the chairman, and Mr. Waldron, the lecturer, threaded their way to the front, and the proceedings began.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A thin, flexible tube that is inserted into a vein in the neck or below the collar bone and guided (threaded) into the right atrium of the heart.
(External right atrial catheter, NCI Dictionary)
It is guided (threaded) into a large vein near the heart called the vena cava or into the right atrium of the heart.
(Central venous access catheter, NCI Dictionary)
All this flashed through his mind in a minute, but not a trace of it appeared in his face, and by the time the paper was turned, and Jo's needle threaded, he was ready to say quite naturally, but very gravely...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
So the archer gossiped as the three wayfarers threaded their way among the stamping horses, the busy grooms, and the knots of pages and squires who disputed over the merits of their masters' horses and deer-hounds.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The crown is manufactured in 26mm worldwide and can be applied to either a threaded finish or a solid ring pry-off finish.
(Crown Metal Container Closure, Food and Drug Administration)
She took a new needleful of thread, waxed it carefully, threaded her needle with a steady hand, and then observed, with perfect composure—It is hardly likely master would laugh, I should think, Miss, when he was in such danger: You must have been dreaming.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Then he went out again; and then she put her thimble and scissors in her pocket, and stuck a needle threaded with black thread neatly in the bosom of her gown, and put on her outer clothing smartly, at a little glass behind the door, in which I saw the reflection of her pleased face.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Amid the knot of noisy and gesticulating townsfolk, many small parties of mounted knights and squires threaded their way towards the prince's quarters, where the huge iron-clamped doors were thrown back to show that he held audience within.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
