single thread

collocation in English

meaningsofsingleandthread

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single
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/us
/ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/
one ...
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thread
noun
uk
/θred/us
/θred/
(a length of) a very ...
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(Definition ofsingleandthreadfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Nevertheless, if there has been asinglethreadrunning through nearly fifty years of investigation into the poverty of poor countries, it has been a neglect of this base.
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We changed the finalisation mechanism to batch finalizers in asinglethreadafter each garbage collection, which led to a small overall performance improvement.
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The multiple conflicts across the region are so closely interwoven that the pulling of anysinglethread can have unexpected and contradictory consequences.
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We have only to look at the terms of reference to see that there could not be asinglethread.
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There was tremendous enthusiasm at the meeting and thesinglethreadwas the importance of regional airports to the north.
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Its upper body is bare except for asinglethreadworn over the left shoulder.
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Asinglethreadof the weft, crossing the warp, is called a "pick".
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The second technique approximates shuttle tatting because asinglethreadpasses through the stitches.
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When the player completes all six plot threads, they converge into asinglethreadthat makes up the second half of the game.
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Sugar is taken and boiled till asinglethreadsyrup is formed which is added into it.
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It was reasonable at the time because under light microscope the nerve cells are merely a mesh ofsinglethread.
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Until such calls became thread safe, there was no proper mechanism for sleeping asinglethreadwithin a process (see polling).
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Since asinglethreadis too fine and fragile for commercial use, anywhere from three to ten strands are spun together to form a single thread of silk.
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Processors up to this point had tried to extract parallelism in asinglethread, a technique that was reaching its limits in terms of diminishing returns.
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Using the spindle the two strands of yarn are twisted round each other into asinglethread.
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