Usually means: Pattern on a tire's surface.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tread: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tread: Merriam-Webster
  3. tread: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tread: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tread: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tread, tread: Wordnik
  7. tread: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tread: Wiktionary
  9. tread: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tread: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tread: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tread: Dictionary.com
  13. tread (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tread: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tread: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tread: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tread: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tread: Rhymezone
  19. tread: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tread: FreeDictionary.org
  21. tread: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. tread: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. tread: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tread: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tread: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TREAD: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. tread: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tread: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tread: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Tread: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Tread: Construction Glossary
  3. Tread: Dictionary of Military Architecture
  4. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See treaded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
verb:  (transitive) To step or walk upon.
verb:  (figuratively, with certain adverbs of manner) To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
verb:  To beat or press with the feet.
verb:  To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
verb:  To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
verb:  To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.
verb:  (intransitive) To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
verb:  (transitive, of a male bird) To copulate with.
verb:  (transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
noun:  A step taken with the foot.
noun:  A manner of stepping.
noun:  The sound made when someone or something is walking.
noun:  (obsolete) A way; a track or path.
noun:  (construction) A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.
noun:  The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
noun:  The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
noun:  (biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
noun:  The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
noun:  (fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
noun:  A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.

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