treadverb詞源 1/tɹɛd/

• 1

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

  • He trod back and forth wearily.
  • Don't tread on the lawn.
• 2

  To step or walk upon.

  • Actors tread the boards.
• 3

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

  • to tread lightly, to tread gently
  • to tread carefully, to tread cautiously, to tread warily
• 4

  To beat or press with the feet.

  • to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path
• 5

  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.
• 6

  To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.

  • I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem.
  • They have measured many a mile, / To tread a measure with you on this grass.
• 7

  To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.

  • Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
• 8

  To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.

  • When Turtles tread, and Rookes and Dawes, And Maidens bleach their summer smockes:

treadnoun詞源 2/tɹɛd/

• 1

  A step taken with the foot.

• 2

  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.
• 3

  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.
• 4

  obsoleteA way; a track or path.

  • And the queint Mazes in the wanton greene, For lacke of tread are vndistinguishable.
• 5

  businessconstructionmanufacturingA 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.
• 6

  The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.

• 7

  The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.

• 8

  biologynatural-sciencesThe chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.