thin thread

collocation in English

meaningsofthinandthread

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thin
adjective
uk
/θɪn/us
/θɪn/
having a small distance between two ...
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thread
noun
uk
/θred/us
/θred/
(a length of) a very ...
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(Definition ofthinandthreadfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thethinthreadof facts told to us by chroniclers, or travellers, is quite insufficient for the purpose.
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That seems to leave a verythinthreadlinking the proposed measures with effective control of quota hoppers.
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We know that the so-called independence of this force hangs on the verythinthreadof the power to withdraw it by national rather than international decision.
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The protrusions are drawn out into athinthread.
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Fishing nets are usually meshes formed by knotting a relativelythinthread.
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Since then, he survives by athinthreadon permanent life support.
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At first her tears formed athinthreadof water, but she never stopped to mourn.
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Alaipayuthey goes backward and forward in time and the movement holds athinthreadof suspense too.
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Lace has been produced for a long time, made in tedious hand labour withthinthreadand needles or bobbins.
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Only in the midst of that can athinthreadof light shine, athinthread, which however contains all the fateful nearness that two people are capable of.
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This fungus growsthinthread-like hyphaetoo small to be viewed with the naked eyeon the hymenium of its host.
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The consistency can be proven by dipping a spoon into the syrup and is right when the sticky liquid keeps connected with the spoon by athinthread.
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Likewise, he advises that the beam be suspended from the two scissorsforks by means of very thin threads (ibr-sim) so that it might gyrate readily.
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Selenium can be drawn into thin threads when molten and viscous.
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The frass is initially deposited in strings, but later it becomes a network of thin threads.
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