Dictionary Entry
tread
tread is a 5-letter English word with 28 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To set the foot; to step. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 28 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To set the foot; to step.
- 2intransitive verb
To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
- 3intransitive verb
To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.
- 4transitive verb
To step or walk on.
- 5transitive verb
To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.
- 6transitive verb
To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like.
- 7transitive verb
To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
- 8transitive verb
To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird.
- 9noun
A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.
- 10noun
Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.
- 11noun
Way; track; path.
- 12noun
The act of copulation in birds.
- 13noun
The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.
- 14noun
The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
- 15noun
The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail.
- 16noun
The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.
- 17noun
The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
- 18noun
A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.
- 19noun
a step in walking or running
- 20noun
structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step
- 21noun
the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground
- 22noun
the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire
- 23verb
brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center
- 24verb
mate with
"male birds tread the females"
- 25verb
crush as if by treading on
"tread grapes to make wine"
- 26verb
tread or stomp heavily or roughly
"The soldiers trampled across the fields"
Synonyms
- 27verb
put down or press the foot, place the foot
"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"
"step on the brake"
Synonyms
- 28verb
apply (the tread) to a tire
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