Usually means: Sequence of messages in conversation.
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We found 65 dictionaries that define the word thread:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. thread: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. thread, thread: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thread: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thread: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thread: Vocabulary.com
  6. Thread, thread: Wordnik
  7. thread: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. thread: Wiktionary
  9. thread: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. thread: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. thread: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. thread: Dictionary.com
  13. thread (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. thread: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Thread(OS), Thread(computing), Thread (Pern), Thread (Red Sun Rising album), Thread (computer programming), Thread (computer science), Thread (computing), Thread (disambiguation), Thread (network protocol), Thread (non-profit organization), Thread (unit of measurement), Thread (yarn), Thread: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Thread: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. thread: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. thread: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. thread: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Thread: American-Britih Dictionary
  21. thread: MyWord.info
  22. Thread: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. thread: Free Dictionary
  24. thread: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. thread: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. thread: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. thread: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. thread: Rhymezone

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beading Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Thread: Neuage Online Discourse Analysis Theory
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  4. Thread: Dictionary of Symbolism
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
  3. Thread (disambiguation), thread: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. thread: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. thread: Netlingo
  3. Thread: CCI Computer
  4. thread: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. Glossary of Internet Terms (No longer online)
  6. Thread: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  7. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  8. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  9. Webopedia (No longer online)
  10. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Thread (computer science), Thread (disambiguation), thread: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. THREAD: Acronym Finder
  4. thread: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THREAD: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  3. thread: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. thread, thread: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Thread, thread: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. thread: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Thread: Pottery Studio
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See threaded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.
noun:  A continued theme or idea.
noun:  (engineering) A screw thread.
noun:  A sequence of connections.
noun:  The line midway between the banks of a stream.
noun:  (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
noun:  (Internet) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.
noun:  A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
noun:  (figurative) Composition; quality; fineness.
verb:  (transitive) To put thread through.
verb:  (transitive) To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
verb:  To screw on; to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt.
verb:  (transitive) To remove the hair using a thread.

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