Collocations withthread
These are words often used in combination withthread.
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common thread
Another common thread is the power of personality.
From theCambridge English Corpus
cotton thread
Household 1 women evidently made their own cotton thread and may also have exchanged some of that thread for items from other households.
From theCambridge English Corpus
fine thread
When the kite line is to be invisible, a clear translucent fine thread is chosen.
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golden thread
Surely, the golden thread should apply to them just as much as anything else.
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metal thread
It gives people advice on what to look for, such as the feel of the paper, the quality of the printing, the watermark and the windowed metal thread.
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metallic thread
Women's clothes are decorated with tribal motifs, coins, sequins, metallic thread, and appliques.
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narrative thread
The sequence of poems that follows (nos 14-30) has a clearer narrative thread.
From theCambridge English Corpus
nylon thread
Buried seeds were recognized by the nylon thread emerging from the soil.
From theCambridge English Corpus
parallel thread
In a call-by-value language, for example, the evaluation of every function application could spawn a parallel thread for each argument expression.
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plot thread
This character note was then ignored for several years, before being picked up again as a plot thread towards the end of the show's run.
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silk thread
She will buy some silk thread with which to sew it together and that will be taxed.
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silken thread
But there is also required the silken thread of mutual trade.
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single thread
Nevertheless, if there has been a single thread running through nearly fifty years of investigation into the poverty of poor countries, it has been a neglect of this base.
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slender thread
There have been complaints that even the slender thread that still remains should not be allowed to remain; that it is hardly fair to shopkeepers who have lock-up shops.
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thin thread
The thin thread of facts told to us by chroniclers, or travellers, is quite insufficient for the purpose.
From theCambridge English Corpus
white thread
Sometimes yellowish "muga" silk was also used in addition to the white thread.
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Wikipedia
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