tread
IPA: trˈɛd
noun
- 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.
verb
- (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
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Examples of "tread" in Sentences
- I treaded on the log safely.
- I treaded something that is unknown.
- Who treaded the bread on the ground
- The man accidentally treads on the cat.
- The tread of the wheel is slightly tapered.
- One has to tread on the blade of the khukuri.
- And this tread is about all types of political topics.
- The tread is the part of the tire that contacts the ground.
- The feet tread the eight trigrams, walk the complete circle.
- The front fenders enclosed the running surface of the tire tread.
- A polyurethane tread is secured about the periphery of the casing.
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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.