tread

IPA: trˈɛd

A step taken with the foot.
A manner of stepping.
The sound made when someone or something is walking.
(obsolete) A way; a track or path.
(construction) A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.
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.
(biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
(fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.

(intransitive) To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
(transitive) To step or walk upon.
(figuratively, with certain adverbs of manner) To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
To beat or press with the feet.
To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
(intransitive) To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
(transitive, of a male bird) To copulate with.
(transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine

Examples of "tread" in Sentences

And this tread is about all types of political topics.
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If you drive down the road and the tread is worn, when you hit a puddle of water, the car can aquaplane.
It was what we call a tread-snail, because it moves on a double row of pads like stumpy feet and leaves a trail like a tractor.
(on camera) During the planning for Iraq, some Pentagon civilians complained what they call tread-heads in the Army were pushing the old heavy force doctrine.
Oxford English Dictionary traces the expression "tread upon eggs" back to the 1700s, when someone named Roger North wrote: "This gave him occasion ... to find if any slip had been made for he all along trod upon eggs."
But Michelin researchers said the RFID chip eventually could be given enough intelligence to communicate directly with vehicle owners and drivers-telling them if the tires are properly inflated, overheated, overloaded, or if tire tread is dangerously worn.