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  • Threads is a 1984 BAFTA award-winning British television drama, produced jointly by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc.
  • The primary plot centres on two families, the working-class Kemps and the middle-class Becketts, as a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union erupts and escalates.
  • Shot on a budget of £250,000–350,000, the film was notable in being the first of its kind to depict a nuclear winter.
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    Definition of threads in English Dictionary

  • NounBFthread
    1. plural of thread.
      1. (plural only, slang) clothes.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later.
          • In this picture he is performing his famous Yogi trick of swallowing a package of needles and some thread and extracting the needles threaded. ‎
          • Vote now, as this thread is sure to make its way into squirrelable territory before long!
        2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper tap to match the valve's thread.
          • The recommended tap drill for a ½"-13 UNC tap is 0.421", resulting in a 75 percent thread.
          • It makes more sense to crosspost than to multipost: that way, replies will all appear together in a single thread.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Nouns
          • Noun forms
            • Noun plural forms
            • Pluralia tantum
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          1. en threadsafe
          2. en threads the needle
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          Meaning of threads for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "threads" is a noun, more specifically, a noun form and a pluralia tantum.
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