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threads

noun
/θɹɛdz//θɾ̪̊ɛdz/US

Etymology

From threads.

Definitions

  1. plural of thread

  2. Clothes, clothing.

    • Mark Zuckerberg is revamping his public image with new threads. With a trio of bold shirts worn in recent appearances, he’s communicating that he came, he saw, he conquered and he will win again at any cost.

  3. third-person singular simple present indicative of thread

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A social media platform developed by Meta, integrated into the fediverse.

      • The point of Meta's Threads app is to read and engage in public conversations. On Threads, users can post a "thread" — usually a short piece of text — and other users can "like," repost, or reply to the thread.
      • Meta did initially suggest that it wouldn’t look to launch ads in Threads till the app reached a billion users, though initial Threads ad formats were spotted in testing in August last year.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at threads. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at threads. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at threads

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA