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Tread

//tɹɛd// noun, verb

Noun

1
A step taken with the foot.
2
a step in walking or running wordnet
3
A manner of stepping.
"She is coming, my own, my sweet; / Were it ever so airy a tread, / My heart would hear her and beat."
4
structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step wordnet
5
The sound made when someone or something is walking.
"The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll. Utterson sighed. "Is there never anything else?" he asked."

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6
the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground wordnet
7
A way; a track or path. obsolete
"And the queint Mazes in the wanton greene, For lacke of tread are vndistinguishable."
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the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire wordnet
9
A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.
"The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue."
10
The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
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The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
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The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
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The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
14
The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
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A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.

Verb

1
To step or walk (on or across something); to trample. intransitive
"He trod back and forth wearily."
2
brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center wordnet
3
To step or walk upon. transitive
"Actors tread the boards."
4
mate with (used of male birds) wordnet
5
To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner). figuratively
"to tread lightly, to tread gently"

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crush as if by treading on wordnet
7
To beat or press with the feet.
"to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path"
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tread or stomp heavily or roughly wordnet
9
To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
"Round about them was a circle of girls and wives of the neighbouring tenants; "they trod the spinning-wheels with diligent feet, or were using the scraping carding-combs," as an author has it."
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put down or press the foot, place the foot wordnet
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To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
"I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem."
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apply (the tread) to a tire wordnet
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To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.
"Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us."
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To copulate; said of (especially male) birds. intransitive
"When Turtles tread, and Rookes and Dawes, And Maidens bleach their summer smockes:"
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To copulate with (a hen). transitive
"But if a child sees a cockerel tread a hen, or two dogs coupling, well and good. It should see these things."
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To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine transitive

Etymology 1

From Middle English treden, from Old English tredan, from Proto-West Germanic *tredan, from Proto-Germanic *trudaną.

Etymology 2

From Middle English tred, from treden (“to tread”).

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