interthread

To pass (strands of material) over and under one another to create a fabric; (by analogy) to weave long, narrow objects together.

Adjective

  1. Between threads.
    • interthread communication

Origin

From inter- + thread.

Forms

inter-thread

Related

multithreading

Verb

  1. To pass (strands of material) over and under one another to create a fabric; (by analogy) to weave long, narrow objects together.
    • the interthreading of warp and weft
    • a woven maze of tiny glittering lines, exquisitely inter-threaded - 1913, Algernon Blackwood, chapter 24, in A Prisoner in Fairyland, London: Macmillan, page 335:
    • under the interthreaded honeysuckle and greenbriar - 1981, Jack Butler, “Blackberries”, in Miller Williams, editor, Ozark, Ozark, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, page 148:

    Synonyms: interlace intertwine interweave betwine braid entwist entwine interthread intertwist lace lock raddle ruddle twine twist

  2. To alter a fabric by weaving additional strands into it; to bring (two or more things) together like the strands in fabric; to bring (one thing) together (with another thing).
    • silk fabrics interthreaded with gold and silver
    • Why wasn’t it a fine thing to be ready with your money? Why wasn’t it good to share your food an’ drink? She had never had the courage to ask Robert to explain, and now as she thought of Mrs. Morphy’s generosity,...
    • 1922, Grant Showerman, Horace and His Influence, London: Harrap, Introduction, p. xiii, The myriad and mysterious interthreading of motive and action, of cause and effect, presents to the near vision no semblance of a...

    Synonyms: blend combine mix

  3. To be present in every part of (something) like strands running through it.
    • the black moor, interthreaded with briny waters - 1876, John Stuart Blackie, chapter 3, in The Language and Literature of the Scottish Highlands,, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, page 139:
    • The traveler on this road stands a fair chance of missing his connecting links in the great railway chain which interthreads the continent east and west […] - 1886, Willard Glazier, chapter 11, in Peculiarities of...
    • The sensuous reality which interthreads and supports all the gropings of my imagination […] - 1908, Helen Keller, chapter 6, in The World I Live In,, New York: The Century Co., page 77:

    Synonyms: crisscross pervade run through

  4. To integrate (strands of material into a fabric) by weaving.
    • […] Christianity is slowly but steadily, and as surely, interthreading her bright woof-lines into the texture of national and political, as well as social life: - 1848 November, Charles Rich, “War,—its Reality and...
  5. To be or become woven or twisted together (with something); to be or become inextricably associated like strands woven or twisted together.
    • an immense lake of ceaselessly interthreading grays and silvers - 1977, Michael Bishop, chapter 6, in Stolen Faces, New York: Harper and Row, page 69:
    • […] we know how [every neuron’s] dendrites and axons interthread with other nerve cells. - 1995, Natalie Angier, chapter 9, in The Beauty of the Beastly,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 55:
    • The traditions of thought and practice found today in the region weave together local and exogenous strands, in a variegated fabric […]. Indigenous and exogenous marriage systems, methods of praise and prayer, food and...
  6. To move alternately on either side of people or objects; to weave in and out.
    • One, two, three, four step forth, and, to and fro, Delicately and imperceptibly, Now swaying gently in a row, Now interthreading slow and rhythmically, - 1896, Arthur Symons, “Javanese Dancers”, in Silhouettes, London:...
    • We watched the little double-decked tram-cars gliding by, the opposing, interthreading streams of pedestrians, and a fleet of coal barges coming up the river […] - 1918 November, Henry Beston, “With the American...

Forms

interthreads interthreading interthreaded inter-thread