Meaning

• A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.

• A continued theme or idea.

  "All of these essays have a common thread."

• A screw thread.

• A sequence of connections.

• The line midway between the banks of a stream.

• A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.

• A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.

• A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.

• Composition; quality; fineness.

Meaning

• To put thread through.

  "thread a needle"

• To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).

  "I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight."

• To screw on, to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt