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threading

 
Verb thread has 5 senses
  1. weave, wind, thread, meander, wander - to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
    --1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
    Derived form: noun thread2
    Sample sentences:
    Something is ----ing PP
    Somebody ----s PP
  2. thread - pass a thread through; "thread a needle"
    --2 is one way to
    guide, run, draw, pass
    Derived forms: noun thread1, noun threader1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. thread - remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string; "She had her eyebrows threaded"
    --3 is one way to
    extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. thread - pass through or into; "thread tape"; "thread film"
    --4 is one way to
    guide, run, draw, pass
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  5. string, thread, draw - thread on or as if on a string; "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries"
    --5 is one way to arrange, set up
    Derived forms: noun thread1, noun threader1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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