threading

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɹɛdɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ

Verb

threading

1. present participle and gerund of thread

English Wikipedia has an article on:

threading (epilation)

Wikipedia

Noun

threading (countable and uncountable, plural threadings)

1. The act or process by which something is threaded (in various senses).
   • 2011, Alexander Gelbukh, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, page 236:

     The majority, 96.2 percent, of the e-mails had only up to four threadings.

2. An ancient Eastern method for removing hair by means of a thread, which is rolled over the hair in order to pluck it out at the follicle level; especially used in the context of eyebrows.

   Coordinate term: epilation

3. (engineering) A screw thread.

Derived terms

• cross-threading

Translations

act or process by which something is threaded

Spanish: hilatura f, hilanza f (uncommon), hilado (es) m, hila (es) f

depilatory method

Arabic: (please verify) بند انداختن Chinese: Hokkien: 挽面 (zh-min-nan) (bán-bīn) Mandarin: 絞面 / 绞面 (jiǎomiàn) Portuguese: depilação com linha f Spanish: depilación con hilo f