Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Forminga link with the windings of an electric circuit: said lines of force of a magnetic circuit passing through a coil of wire.
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- verb Present participle of
thread . - noun An ancient
Eastern method for removinghair by means of athread , which is rolled over the hair in order topluck it out at thefollicle level.
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Examples
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Stafford was picked as the game's MVP, completing his performance by showing a nice touch in threading a 21-yard TD pass to Moreno late in the fourth quarter.
USATODAY.com 2008
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And some women use another pulling method, called threading, which is popular in Indian salons.
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Well, a new shop in Ocala's Paddock Mall is offering a traditional Indian technique called threading that claims to be a less barbaric way to remove unwanted hair.
Local News from Star-Banner Correspondent By Claire Parker 2010
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Although no one is arguing about whether multicore processors are here to stay, there is some debate about threading, which is the process of dividing a program into multiple tasks, or threads, that run in parallel.
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Since we won't see anything from AMD's Bulldozer stable until the middle of next year at the earliest, not far from the first Sandy Bridge parts, tuning its six core parts for the extreme desktop may work well for AMD to grab some benchmark wins and, at least, effectively counter Intel's hyper-threading, which is helping Intel well in quite a few tests.
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In the original SquirrelFish announcement, we described our use of direct threading, which is about the fastest form of bytecode intepretation short of generating native code.
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In the original SquirrelFish announcement, we described our use of direct threading, which is about the fastest form of bytecode intepretation short of generating native code.
Surfin' Safari Dave Hyatt 2008
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In the original SquirrelFish announcement, we described our use of direct threading, which is about the fastest form of bytecode intepretation short of generating native code.
Surfin' Safari Adele Peterson 2008
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In the original SquirrelFish announcement, we described our use of direct threading, which is about the fastest form of bytecode intepretation short of generating native code.
random($foo) 2008
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In the original SquirrelFish announcement, we described our use of direct threading, which is about the fastest form of bytecode intepretation short of generating native code.
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