ADJ
- strong
- delicate, fine, fragile, thin
- loose
- matching
- cotton, silk, etc.
- embroidery, sewing
- warp, weft
VERB + THREAD
- spin
- catch, pull
- You've pulled a thread in your jumper
PHRASES
- hanging by a thread (often figurative)
- The player's career is hanging by a thread after this latest injury to his knee
ADJ
- central, main
- common, connecting
- consistent, continuous
- narrative
- loose
- Apart from one or two loose threads, the police now had the complete picture of what happened
VERB + THREAD
- follow, trace
- I found it hard to follow the main thread of his argument
- lose
- The speaker lost his thread halfway through the talk
- keep
- She struggled against all the interruptions to keep the thread of her argument
- draw together, pick up, pull together, weave
- The author eventually picks up the various threads of the plot and weaves them into a masterly conclusion
THREAD + VERB
- run through sth
- A continuous thread runs through all the versions of the legend
- emerge
- On studying the different historians' accounts, common threads emerge
- unravel
- As the film progresses, the threads of the plot slowly begin to unravel
