tread

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/tɹɛd/

verb 5noun 5

Collocations

(noun.) sound you make when you are walking

ADJ

firm, heavy

The old wooden floor creaked under her firm tread as she walked across the room.

light, soft | measured, slow, steady

VERB + TREAD

hear

TREAD + VERB

move

PREP

with a ~

The hiker moved forward with a careful tread, testing each rocky step.

PHRASES

the tread of feet

We heard the heavy tread of feet approaching down the dark hallway.

(noun.) on a tyre

ADJ

tyre, wheel | deep, shallow | worn

TREAD + VERB

be worn

The stair carpet's tread had worn thin from years of daily use.

TREAD + NOUN

depth, pattern, width

PHRASES

a breadth/depth/width of tread

(verb.)

ADV

heavily

The old floorboards creaked whenever my father trod heavily across the room.

gently, lightly, softly

carefully, gingerly, warily

The old wooden floorboards creaked as he trod carefully through the sleeping house.

down

He trod down the grass as he walked through the overgrown garden path.

PREP

My dog accidentally trod in some mud while we were walking through the park.

into

He accidentally trod mud into the kitchen floor while coming in from the garden.

I accidentally trod on his foot while getting off the crowded bus yesterday.

Definitions

verb

To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.

He trod back and forth wearily.

Don't tread on the lawn.

To step or walk upon.

Actors tread the boards.

To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).

to tread lightly, to tread gently

to tread carefully, to tread cautiously, to tread warily

To beat or press with the feet.

to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path

To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.

Round about them was a circle of girls and wives of the neighbouring tenants; "they trod the spinning-wheels with diligent feet, or were using the scraping carding-combs," as an author has it.

noun

A step taken with the foot.

A manner of stepping.

She is coming, my own, my sweet; / Were it ever so airy a tread, / My heart would hear her and beat.

The sound made when someone or something is walking.

The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll. Utterson sighed. "Is there never anything else?" he asked.

But when, after a singularly heavy tread and the jingle of spurs on the platform, the door flew open to the newcomer, he seemed a realization of our worst expectations.

A way; a track or path.

And the queint Mazes in the wanton greene, For lacke of tread are vndistinguishable.

A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.

The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a step in walking or running

verb — tread or stomp heavily or roughly

trample

verb — put down or press the foot, place the foot

step

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

tread lightly

To proceed carefully; especially, to seek to avoid causing offense.

He's in a bad mood today, so you might want to tread lightly if you talk to him.

fools rush in where angels fear to tread

A person who does not plan ahead and think matters through becomes involved in risky or unfavorable situations which prudent people avoid.

“It's the first article of your creed—that marriage is a holy sacrament, that no power on earth or in hell can ever dissolve its bonds? Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, my

tread on someone's toes

To offend someone.

tread carefully

To exercise precaution; to be careful with regards to the situation; to tread lightly.

tread the boards

To work as a theatre actor.

He seems to think that he's the greatest actor who's ever trod the boards.

Example Bank

He trod back and forth wearily.

Wiktionary

Don't tread on the lawn.

Wiktionary

And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet haue troden, shall be thine inheritance, and thy childrens for euer, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God.

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She is coming, my own, my sweet; / Were it ever so airy a tread, / My heart would hear her and beat.

Wiktionary

But when, after a singularly heavy tread and the jingle of spurs on the platform, the door flew open to the newcomer, he seemed a realization of our worst expectations.

Wiktionary

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, tread is marked as figuratively, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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