Definitions
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- adjective having the form of a
thread
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective thin in diameter; resembling a thread
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Examples
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The threadlike streamers between the stars are clearly visible.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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The threadlike streamers between the stars are clearly visible.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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The threadlike streamers between the stars are clearly visible.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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The threadlike streamers between the stars are clearly visible.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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The scientist turned to a door that led into his inner sanctum and Hardy saw beyond him a great room that was crammed with intricate machines and festooned with cables and gleaming threadlike filaments.
"Master Control" by Harl Vincent, part 3 Johnny Pez 2010
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So genes had to be carried on chromosomes—the threadlike structures identified by Flemming three decades earlier.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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But if the PSA levels rise significantly over time, doctors go to the next step - a biopsy: using a hollow needle device they take a series of threadlike samples from the prostate - as many as two dozen - which pathologists then examine to see if cancer cells are present.
Tom Halsted: Prostate Cancer: What to Do When You Learn you Have It Tom Halsted 2010
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So genes had to be carried on chromosomes—the threadlike structures identified by Flemming three decades earlier.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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So genes had to be carried on chromosomes—the threadlike structures identified by Flemming three decades earlier.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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It smelled delicate and earthy, and I imagined a flower on its stem freshly pulled out of the ground, dirt clinging to the threadlike roots.
The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010
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