Sekirov Dictionary

tread

/tɹɛd/

noun 11
verb 10
forms 9
phrases 7

noun11

A step taken with the foot.
The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
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A manner of stepping.
- She is coming, my own, my sweet; / Were it ever so airy a tread, / My heart would hear her and beat. — 1855
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A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.
- The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue. — 1956
The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
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The sound made when someone or something is walking.
- But when, after a singularly heavy tread and the jingle of spurs on the platform, the door flew open to the newcomer, he seemed a realization of our worst expectations. — 1896
The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
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(no longer used) A way; a track or path.
- And the queint Mazes in the wanton greene, For lacke of tread are vndistinguishable. — 1595

verb10

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To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
- He trod back and forth wearily.
- Don't tread on the lawn.
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To step or walk upon.
- Actors tread the boards.
(figurative) To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
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To beat or press with the feet.
- to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path
To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
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To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.
- Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. — 1611
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To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
- I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem. — 1616
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To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
- Round about them was a circle of girls and wives of the neighbouring tenants; "they trod the spinning-wheels with diligent feet, or were using the scraping carding-combs," as an author has it. — 1886
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To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
- When Turtles tread, and Rookes and Dawes, And Maidens bleach their summer smockes: — 1595
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To copulate with (a hen).
- But if a child sees a cockerel tread a hen, or two dogs coupling, well and good. It should see these things. — 1923

forms

treaded · trod · troade · troddest · trodden · treading · treadeth · treads · treadest

Phrases with tread

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