lace vs thread

lace

noun
  • A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. ᵂᵖ 

  • A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. ᵂᵖ 

  • A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. 

verb
  • To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. 

  • To interweave items. 

  • To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material. 

  • To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel. 

  • To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink). 

  • To fasten (something) with laces. 

thread

noun
  • A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string. 

  • A sequence of connections. 

  • A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark. 

  • A screw thread. 

  • A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently. 

  • The line midway between the banks of a stream. 

  • A continued theme or idea. 

  • A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread. 

  • Composition; quality; fineness. 

verb
  • To put thread through. 

  • To remove the hair using a thread. 

  • To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles). 

  • To screw on; to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt. 

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