Thread

(noun.) a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving.

(verb.) pass through or into; 'thread tape'; 'thread film'.

(verb.) remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string; 'She had her eyebrows threaded'.

(verb.) pass a thread through; 'thread a needle'.

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• Louisa, holding her hand, could feel no pulse; but kissing it, could see a slight thin thread of life in fluttering motion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Mr. Franklin took up the lost thread, and went on. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• An ordinary optic nerve is about the thickness of a thread, but his is like a cord. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• And she lost her thread. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Besides that the thread became so brittle that the slightest shock to the lamp broke it. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• A needle and thread we don't know how to use. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I can't get the end of it into my hand. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I enjoy the art of all sorts here immensely; but I suppose if I could pick my enjoyment to pieces I should find it made up of many different threads. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• These threads are proposed as prizes for those persons whom the emperor has a mind to distinguish by a peculiar mark of his favour. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Weave the threads of golden hair, Golden future also weaving. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The intervening loops and threads are attached to another frame or heddle, and the two heddles by being worked, one up and the other down, separate the warp threads to form the shed. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Through this shed the shuttle which carries the woof or filling thread is sent crosswise the warp threads. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It is the murder that we are really investigating, and I tell you that I am gathering all the threads into my hands. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The pressure is so great that every opening between the fibers of cotton, every space between threads is forced full of rubber. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Her lodgings were hard by; and they threaded through the crowd without, where everything seemed to be more astir than even in the ball-room within. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The devil's dance of the Indian Diamond has threaded its way to London; and to London you must go after it, leaving me at the country-house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Her thimble is scarcely fitted on, her needle scarce threaded, when a sudden thought calls her upstairs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Little Dorrit gladly put it by her side, took out her little pocket-housewife, threaded the needle, and began to hem. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The ball of cord carried on the machine has one end threaded through the needle and fastened in a holder. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• They walked on towards the town, towards where the lamps threaded singly, at long intervals down the dark high-road of the valley. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• On the base of the upper half a hard wood screw is inserted and at the top of the butt a threaded hole is bored. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Tiber, the road which is spread by nature's own hand, threading her continent, was at my feet, and many a boat was tethered to the banks. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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