(n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
(n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
(n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.
(n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.
(n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
(v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
(v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
(v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
Example Sentences:
(1) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
(2) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(3) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
(4) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
(5) Santi Cazorla, Sánchez and Mesut Özil were all involved, and when the ball came back to Cazorla he made a fine threaded pass to Walcott.
(6) We've brought on two experts to answer your questions from 1-2pm BST in the comment thread on this article.
(7) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
(8) Electron microscopy showed the presence of bacterial ghosts and protein threads.
(9) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(10) The left anterior descending coronary artery of dogs and the right common carotid artery of rabbits were subjected to partial constriction with suture thread (40-60% reduction in transluminal diameter).
(11) Neuronal thread protein is a recently characterized, approximately 20-kd protein that accumulates in brains with Alzheimer's disease (AD) lesions.
(12) Small threaded pins do not cause femoral head rotation.
(13) Nematocyst capsules and everted threads from both species contained levels of glycine and proline-hydroxyproline characteristic of vertebrate collagens.
(14) Load transfer from ring to bone is concentrated at the first and last threads where the subchondral bone layer is penetrated.
(15) Furthermore, large numbers of neuropil threads are scattered throughout the nuclear gray.
(16) The histological findings of actinomyces spores, thread-like foreign material and detritus drew out attention to the rare manifestation of abdominal actinomycosis.
(17) Monofilament nylon threads are used as drains in free skin grafting; 2-0 or 3-0 nylon threads are usually applied.
(18) Monoclonal antibodies, raised independently in two laboratories against either pancreatic stone protein (PSP) or pancreatic thread protein (PTP), reacted with the Mr 14,000 protein(s).
(19) With the initial technique, the gastrostomy tube was pulled in by a thread introduced percutaneously into the stomach.
(20) P19 gave by proteolysis a protein of 14 KD (P14), at first named protein X and also called pancreatic thread protein or pancreatic stone protein.
Unpick
Definition:
(v. t.) To pick out; to undo by picking.
Example Sentences:
(1) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
(2) The task of unpicking exactly what type of gap in intelligence that the surveillance-savvy and well-organised bombers were able to slip through will take time, but it holds the key to preventing further Islamic State attacks.
(3) Somewhere like Ketchum – mind you, that can get pretty bumpin’ in winter.” We unpicked this slowly.
(4) This is not a deal that Walmart can suddenly unpick: it was announced in June and completed recently, approved by Massmart's international investors.
(5) The new deal thrashed out in a hurry in the small hours by the three main political parties – now, at last, having a common conversation – insisted on "underpinning" the pantomime horse of charter with a requirement that it could only be unpicked or amended by a two-thirds vote of parliament.
(6) When Labour was returned to power in 1997, many of us were optimistic that its virtual three-term majority afforded it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring forth a programme of socially progressive legislation that, if planned carefully, would prove difficult for future right-wing Tory administrations to unpick.
(7) The structure of the new ministry took some unpicking - but I assume at this stage that an administrative arrangements order will make sense of which portfolio bits have gone where.
(8) Even the House of Lords couldn’t stomach Osborne’s tax credit cuts | Polly Toynbee Read more In the immediate aftermath of the budget Osborne seemed to have pulled off his conjuring trick, but as often with budgets the IFS and others started to unpick the impact of his work.
(9) "The contracts are not due to be signed until May [and] anyone looking to sign one should understand that we'll do all we can to legally unpick them if David Cameron enters No 10.
(10) There are many flaws in the government case which a determined opposition will unpick between now and the next general election in 2020.
(11) Weissmann formerly led the FBI’s fraud unit and the taskforce that unpicked the complex financial dealings of Enron, after the giant energy corporation collapsed in December 2001.
(12) As long [ago] as it is, we will get to the bottom of it.” Pressed on whether he believes there was a Westminster-based paedophile ring, as has been alleged, Hogan-Howe said: “I don’t think we know yet.” Investigations into historical allegations contain “so much that’s difficult to unpick”, he added, with “some twists and turns” that are vital to the outcome of the case.
(13) Is there the staff and experience available to start unpicking it?” Dougal said cuts at Westminster were already affecting the Scottish fishing community’s relationship both with Defra and the EU.
(14) Such a move would, he said, be "part privatisation by stealth" and be impossible to unpick, resulting in a loss of value for taxpayers that ultimately own the organisation.
(15) At the frontline, the picture is murkier but richer: there's plenty of data (at least in acute settings) but this is rarely uncontested and often hard to unpick.
(16) Mackay warns against trying to unpick the complexities of the language.
(17) But the work penalty shows it may at least be possible to begin unpicking their electoral coalition.
(18) But it did not take long for the financial markets to unpick the Brussels agreement.
(19) Most commentators agree that if the UK votes to leave the EU, it will trigger a huge wave of parliamentary legislation, to unpick our UK laws from those of the EU.
(20) But the purpose of such sites is notoriously difficult to unpick.