Tread

Definition: Tread

Tread

Noun

1. A step in walking or running.

2. The part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground.

3. Structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step.

Verb

1. Put down the foot, place the foot; "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread".

2. Tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled across the fields".

3. Crush as if by treading on, as of grapes.

4. Brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center.

5. Apply (the tread) to a tire.

6. Mate with, of male birds.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tread" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Building

Food & Agriculture

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

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Synonyms: Tread

Journey

Walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.

Motion

Step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey; voyage; transit.

Crosswords: Tread

Where I tread I leave nothing but dust and darkness (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

Why don't you girls just pack it up before I leave tread marks on your face (The Fast and the Furious; writing credit: Gary Scott Thompson)

Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread. (The Bishop's Wife; writing credit: Leonardo Bercovici; Robert Nathan)

Can you tread water with that hook (Summer Rental; writing credit: Mark Reisman; Jeremy Stevens)

Don't tell me you memorize tire tread patterns (Sacrifice; writing credit: Randall Frakes; Mitchell Smith)

Don't tread on me. Come hear Uncle John's Band playing ("Uncle John's Band"; performing artist: The Grateful Dead)

Tread (1972)

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)

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Books

• Fear to Tread (Demon the Fallen) (reference)

• Tread Lightly in Different Cultures: Race, Gender and Women's Reproductive Health Care (reference)

• Tread upon the Lion (Liberty Bell/Gilbert Morris, 3) (reference)

• Where Angels Fear to Tread (reference)

• Where soldiers fear to tread (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Tread Design Guide (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Steel Angel Kurumi - Where Angels Fear To Tread (Vol. 3) (reference)

• The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (reference)

• Where Angels Fear to Tread (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• That's Right/Don't Tread on Me (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Shepherd 9320 Metal Ball Soft Tread Stem Casters (2-Pack) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Single tread remnant of the Lewis and Clark TrailSlump GulchLewis and Clark TrailSalmon Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Steve Wright.

Paper tiger has heavy tread!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Twas Ursula whose gentle tread ... / [Ethel Reed]. Credit: Library of Congress.

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In some months of the year, however, there often chances a forenoon when affairs move onward with a livelier tread.

The tread of the patrols and groundsmen of the English camp could be heard dimly in the distance

You may even tread on them, or have your eyes on them for a minute, without discovering them

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Business

U.S. products sold in Russia include motorized wheelchairs, hydro lifts, walking and bathing aids, tread mills, orthopedic products, oxygen concentrators and other respiratory equipment. (references)

Tread mills, tonometers, ultrasound inhalers, respiratory muscle training equipment, equipment for physical, ozone and hypoxia therapy, sleep therapy devices, orthopedic products are also produced at the domestic enterprises. (references)

There are no locally made digital hearing aids. The above products as well as multifunctional beds, electrical wheelchairs, scooters, tread mills and other products can be considered as best prospects for U.S. manufacturers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "tread": caterpillar tread ♦ have a heavy tread ♦ put a tread on ♦ thin tread ♦ tire tread ♦ To have the black ox tread on one's foot ♦ To tread a measure ♦ To tread on ♦ To tread on the neck of ♦ To tread out ♦ To tread the stage ♦ to tread upon ♦ To tread upon one's heels ♦ To tread upon the heels of ♦ torn tread ♦ tread a path ♦ tread and thrum ♦ tread board ♦ tread down ♦ tread elements ♦ tread gingerly ♦ tread grooves ♦ tread in ♦ tread in smb.'s footsteps ♦ tread in smb.'s steps ♦ tread in the steps of smb. ♦ tread lightly ♦ tread of a stair ♦ tread on ♦ tread on a delicate ground ♦ tread on air ♦ tread on gas ♦ tread on it ♦ tread on smb.'s corns ♦ tread on smb.'s foot ♦ tread on smb.'s heels ♦ tread on smb.'s kibes ♦ tread on smb.'s neck ♦ tread on smb.'s toes ♦ tread on smth. ♦ tread on the neck of smb. ♦ tread one's way ♦ tread out ♦ tread over ♦ tread press ♦ tread tearing ♦ tread the boards ♦ tread the deck ♦ tread the stage ♦ tread under ♦ tread under foot ♦ tread upon ♦ with a tread. Additional references.

Beginning with "tread": tread-impact, tread-softly.

Ending with "tread": five-tread, four-tread, mid-tread, rubber-tread, wide-tread.

Afrikaans

opgaan (ascend, climb, go up, walk, walk upon), begaan (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, do, keep, make, observe, perform, walk, walk upon). (various references)

Albanian

sipërfaqe gome, shkoj (be, befit, call on, come round, destine, elapse, get, go, go by, ride, step, thread, trace, visit, wend), shkel (backslide, break, contravene, disobey, encroach, entrench, evade, go back, impinge, infringe, make inroads into, muscle in, obtrude, offend, outrage, outrun, override, perambulate, poach, press, pull, step, trample, trample down, trample on, transgress, tread on, trouble), ndjek (attend, chase, follow, give chase, Hunt, lead, nose, persecute, prosecute, pursue, rattle, shadow, smell out, spoor, string along, tag, tail, take after, touch, trace, track, track down, trail), mënyrë e të ecurit, këmbëz shkalle, gjatësi i rrugës, ecje (footing, gait, going, motion, movement, pace, run, step, walk, walking), eci (foot, go, hike, hoof, proceed, progress, step, walk). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشى (carry, foot, go, pan, perambulate, step, traipse, travel, walk), ‏نعل (insole, shoe, shoehorn, sock, sole), ‏وقع الأقدام (plod, tramp), ‏تقدم بحزر, ‏تبع (dangle, direct, follow, go after, succeed, supervene, tread on smb.'s heels), ‏سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, triturate, trituration), ‏سطح العجلة دولاب السيارة, ‏عفص, ‏طول قدم الرجل, ‏خطوة (footstep, move, pace, step, stride), ‏خطا (march, step), ‏الجزء الأ فقي من درجة السلم, ‏دعس, ‏داس (run down, run over, trample). (various references)

Bulgarian 

шум от стъпки (clop), походка (action, deportment, foot, gait, pace, step, walk, walking), звено на гъсенична верига (shoe, track), наплат на колело, накуцвам (dot and go one, hitch, limp), настъпвам (advance, ensue, occur, set in, settle in, step on, tread on), вървеж (gait, pace, walk, walking), вървя (foot, go, gone, move, pass, pike, progress, push on, ride, run, sell, step, track, walk, work), извървявам (travel, walk), ширина на хода, стъпка (footfall, footstep, measure, move, numbers, pace, pitch, remove, step, track), тъпча (cram, glut, jam, ply, ram, shovel, squeeze, stodge, stuff), чифтосвам се с, чифтосване (coupling), ход (action, bat, course, current, foot, gait, going, lapse, motion, move, movement, operation, pace, passage, passing, play, ploy, process, race, rate, run, running, stream, swing, tenor, tide, track, train, twist, walk, way), релси (line, metals, railing, track), стъпало (foot, metatarsus, rung, running board, shoulder, sill, stage, stave, step), стъпенка (rung), стъпвам (set foot, step), шина на колело. (various references)

Chinese 

躡 (chase, step), 踩, 踐 (fulfill, walk). (various references)

Czech

schod (stair, step), podrážka (sole), krok (footstep, gait, measure, move, pace, pas, step, walk), kráèet (March, pace, step, stride, walk), jít (come, go, step, walk, wend, work), chùze (gait, going, pace, passage, step, walk, walking), šlapat (behave, leg it, pad, tramp), šlápnutí. (various references)

Danish

træde (pace, stalk, step, stride). (various references)

Dutch

treden (pace, stalk, step, stride), stappen (pace, stalk, step, stride), lopen (flow, go, go for a walk, go on foot, march, pace, run, stalk, step, stride, stroll, walk). (various references)

Esperanto

treti (trample on), suriri (walk, walk upon), piedpasi, paŝi (pace, stalk, step, stride). (various references)

Faeroese

stíga (trample on), ganga fet fyri fet (pace, stalk, step, stride). (various references)

Farsi 

پاگذاشتن (Inculcate), لگدکردن , گام برداری (Gang), راه رفتن (Gait, Go, Traipse, Walk). (various references)

Finnish

tallata (trample, trample on, tread down). (various references)

French

semelle (track shoe), bande de roulement (tire tread, tyre tread). (various references)

German

treten (begin, enter, go, kick, mate with, pace, pedal, press, shove about, shove around, stalk, start, step, stride, walk), Treppenstufe (step), schreiten (march on, pace, proceed, process, stalk, step, stridden, stride, strut, walk), Profil (cross section, elevation, image, profile, vertical section, wing section), Lauffläche (bearing surface, running surface, tire tread, tyre tread). (various references)

Greek 

τσαλαπατώ (trample). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"רך (footboard, foothold), ללכת (continue, go, proceed, walk, wend one's way), לפסוע (pace, step, stride, walk), ל�"ש�"ש (trample, trudge), ל�"רוך (set foot, stamp, trample on, walk), לבטוש (beat, grind, kick, stamp, trample), לרמוס (stamp, trample), לצעו�" (pace, step, stride, walk), פעם (beat, pace, step, stroke, time), �"ליכ�" (conduct, gait, walk), �"יש�" (threshing), �"ריכ�" (cocking gun, drawing bow, stepping, treading), �"רס (run over, stamp, tramp), רמיס�" (trampling), צעי�"�" (marching, stepping, walk). (various references)

Hungarian

futófelület (track). (various references)

Indonesian

urutan (arrangement, ordinal), menginjak (trample down, tread (crush) under foot), memasang benang, gigi-gigi (perforation). (various references)

Italian

pedata (footprint, footstep, kick), battistrada (outrider, pacemaker, pacer). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

トルコ帽 (fez, house trailer, sweat pants, sweat shirt, sweatshirt, tolerance, Tolstoy, toreador, toreador pants, tornado, torso, tortilla, trace, tracer, tracing, tracing paper, trade, trade money, trade show, trade union, trademark, trade-off, trader, trading, trading company, trail bike, trailer, trailer bus, trailer house, train, trainer, training, training camp, training pants, training shoes, training wear, training wizard, tray, trekker, tremolo, trench coat, trenching, troubadour, very good). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

トレッド . (various references)

Korean 

보행. (various references)

Manx

sthampey (clump, stomp, swage, trample, tread on), shooyl (ambulatory, gait, itinerant, pace, perambulate, perambulation, promenade, traverse, traversing, treading, vagrant, walk, walking), keimnaghey (calibrate, calibration, perambulate, perambulation), cur y chass er (tread on with heel), cass-cheim. (various references)

Pig Latin

eadtray.(various references)

Portuguese

piso (floor, pave, paving), pisar (bruise, chunk, contuse, crush, meal, override, pound, ram, step, step on, tamp, trample, trample on), passo (footmark, footstep, gait, going, move, pace, pass, screw-thread, step, stride, walk), andar (ambulate, floor, gait, go, march, march off, pace, pass, retreat, ride, roam, slouch, stalk, step, storey, stream, stride, to walk, traipse, travel, walk). (various references)

Romanian

trece peste (bestride, bridge, clear, draw, get over, go over, jump, override, overrule, overrun, pass over, span, stride, surmount), treaptã (bench, degree, horse, level, pace, peg, rank, remove, round, rung, spoke, stage, stair, step), zgomot de paşi (footfall, tramp), se plimba (go for a walk, pace, perambulate, promenade, stroll, walk, walk upon), pune piciorul pe, pas (channel, foot, footmark, footprint, footstep, gate, gorge, leap, move, opening, pace, pass, pitch, remove, step, stride, walk), påşi (pace, stalk, step, stride), pãşi (cross, pace, pad it, step, walk), merge pe jos (foot it, hoof it, pad, pad it, walk, walk upon), merge pe, cålca (pace, stalk, step, stride), cãlcãturã (footprint, gait, step), cãlca (break, calender, foot, go, hot-press, infringe, iron, mangle, press, smooth, step, trespass, violate), bãtãtori (batter, beat, pound, puddle). (various references)

Russian 

ступать (step, trod, trodden), рабочая поверхность (work surface, worktop), трущаяся поверхность, топтать (set foot, stamp, trample), шагать (pace, step, stridden, stride, strode), обод колеса (felloe, felly, tire, tyre), беговая дорожка (racecourse, racetrack), протектор, поверхность качения, идти шаг, давить (bear, crush, press, press upon, squash, trample). (various references)

Scottish

saltair (trample). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trag stopala (footmark), tlačiti (oppress), stupati, stepenica (hatchway), sparivati se, parenje (mating, pairing), hod (gait, pace, throw, walk), gnječiti (knead, mash, squash), gaziti (infringe, step, trudge, wade, walk). (various references)

Spanish

pisar (back up, collar, enter, footle, nobble, press, push, set foot, step, trample, tread down, wend one's way), banda de rodadura (contact area, contact surface, track). (various references)

Swedish

trampa (clump, foot-slog, pedal, stamp, tramp, trample), träda (fallow, go, lace, lay-land, pass, slip, step, string, thread), stiga (advance, ascend, climb, flow, get, grow, increase, move up, rise, soar, step), steg (footstep, gate, pace, pas, step, steps, stride, trod), slitbana. (various references)

Turkish

yürüyüş (gait, gressorial, hike, pace, walk, walking), yürümek (ankle, have a walk, hike, pace, step, step up, stir one's stumps, toddle, walk), pedallar arası açıklık, ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, crush, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, scrunch, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down), dans figürü yapmak, basmak (affix, attack suddenly, break into, catch, come on, come upon, flood, flow, foray, impress, imprint, irrupt, jam, letter, press, print, publish, raid, sink, spit, spit out, stamp, stencil, step, step on, stomp, strike, strike off, transfer, tread on, utter, weigh), basamak (column, digit, echelon, footstep, grade, ladder, order, pitch, place, rung, scale, stair, step, tread board), basış, ayakkabı tabanı, ayak sesi (footfall, footstep, patter, step), arşınlamak, adımlamak (pace, pace off, pace out, step, step off, step out, walk), çiftleşmek (breed, copulate, couple, mate, pair, rut, tup), çiftleşme (coition, coitus, copulation, coupling, mating, pairing, rutting). (various references)

Ukrainian

слід (behove, footmark, footprint, footstep, imprint, ought, print, relic, remnant, scent, should, spoor, trace, track, trail, wake), розтоптати (squelch), хода (footfall, footstep, gait, pace, step, walk, walking), вступати (accede, enlist, enter, enter into), парування (copula), давити (crush, nuddle, press). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cách đi (trod, trodden), bước đi (step, trod, trodden). (various references)

Welsh

troedio (foot, trudge), sathru (trample), sangu (trample), sang (pressure), mathru (trample), damsang (trample). (various references)

calca, calcabant, calcabatur, calcabis, calcabit, calcabitis, calcabitur, calcabunt, calcandi, calcant, calcantes, calcantibus, calcantium, calcare, calcat, calcator, calcatur, calcatus, calcaverit, calcaverunt, calcavi, calcavit, calces, calcet, conculca, conculcabas, conculcabat, conculcabatur, conculcabimus, conculcabis, conculcabit, conculcabitur, conculcabunt, conculcans, conculcantes, conculcare, conculcarent, conculcari, conculcastis, conculcata, conculcatam, conculcati, conculcatum, conculcaverit, conculcaverunt, conculcavi, conculcavit, conculcem, conculcent, conculcet, conculcetur, exterant, exterat, exterent, extrita, gradi, perurguebant, perurguebat, perurguente, perurguere, subtritus, ter, terebat, terens, terentis, terit, teruntur, trieris, tristis, trita, tritam, tritura, triturae, trituram, urgeat, urget, urguebant, urguebantque, urguebat, urguerent, urgueret, urgues, ursi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "tread": treaded, treader, treaders, treading, treadle, treadled, treadler, treadlers, treadles, treadless, treadling, treadmill, treadmills, treads. (additional references)

Words ending with "tread": outread, retread, untread. (additional references)

Words containing "tread": outreading, outreads, retreaded, retreading, retreads, untreading, untreads. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tread" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: iread, shread, tarda, tarea, Tejada, terae, thead, theda, torea, Torihada, traa, traad, Trabaldo, Trada, trae, Tratado, trea, tready, treak, treal, tream, treap, trear, treas, tred, treda, tredan, trede, treedo, treedy, treef, Trega, treif, Tremadoc, tribad, Triewald, trinad, troad, Truax, truid, tryad, twead, Tzedec. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dater, derat, rated, tared, trade.

-1 letter: dare, dart, date, dear, drat, rate, read, tare, tear, trad.

-2 letters: are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, eta, rad, rat, red, ret, tad, tae, tar, tea, ted.

-3 letters: ad, ae, ar, at, de, ed, er, et, re, ta.

+1 letter: advert, airted, ardent, carted, crated, dafter, darted, darter, dartle, daters, dearth, depart, derate, derats, dreamt, grated, hatred, marted, orated, parted, petard, prated, rafted, ranted, ratted, redact, redate, retard, stared, tarred, tarted, teared, tetrad, thread, tirade, traced, traded, trader, trades, treads, warted.

+2 letters: aborted, adapter, addrest, adepter, adopter, adverts, aerated, airdate, airthed, alerted, altered, antired, aridest, astride, attired, aurated, averted, bartend, berated, borated, bracted, breadth, catered, cerated, charted, cordate, crafted, created, curated, dabster, darkest, darters, dartled, dartles, daunter, dearest, dearths, debater, delator, departs, derated, derates, detract, detrain, dewater, dextral, dextran, diaster, dietary, dilater, diptera, disrate, drabbet, drafted, draftee, drafter, dragnet, dratted, earthed, fracted, garoted, gradate, grafted, granted, gyrated, hardest, hardset, hatreds, hearted, hydrate, laterad, leotard, lyrated, matured, natured, outdare, outread, partied, petards, pirated, predate, radiate, rattled, reacted, readapt, readmit, readopt, readout, rebated, redacts, redated, redates, redbait, redcoat, redraft, redtail, related, remated, retaped, retards, retaxed, retread, roasted, rotated, scarted, sedater, smarted, staider, stander, starred, started, starved, steward, strafed, straked, strawed, strayed, tabered, tabored, tapered, tardier, tardies, tarried, tarweed, tetrads, thrawed, threads, thready, tiaraed, tirades, torsade, tracked, traders, traduce, tragedy, traiked, trailed, trained, trammed, tramped, tranced, trapped, trashed, trawled, treaded, treader, treadle, treated, triaged, tribade, troaked, unrated, untread, updater, uprated, verdant, watered, wrathed.