English Explanatory Dictionary

tread

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
  2. To step or walk upon.
  3. To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
  4. To beat or press with the feet.
  5. To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
  6. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
  7. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.
  8. To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
  9. To copulate with (a hen).
  10. To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
noun
  1. A step taken with the foot.
  2. A manner of stepping.
  3. The sound made when someone or something is walking.
  4. A way; a track or path.
  5. A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.
  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. The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
  9. The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
  10. The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
  11. A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.

Pronunciation

/tɹɛd/ en-us-tread.ogg

Word forms

tread treads treading trod treaded trodden treade

Etymology

From Middle English treden, from Old English tredan, from Proto-West Germanic *tredan, from Proto-Germanic *trudaną.

Synonyms

step on stomp run

Antonyms

rise riser

Related words

trade

Derived words

as ever trod shoe-leather betread don't tread on me downtrodden fools rush in where angels fear to tread have the black ox tread on one's foot retread tread a measure tread carefully tread down tread in someone'ssteps treadle tread-lightly tread lightly tread on eggshells tread on someone's corns toes tread on upon tread out tread softly tread-softly tread the boards tread the stage tread water untrod

Translations

Albanian: shkelmoj Bulgarian: стъпквам Bulgarian: утъпквам Czech: udusat Czech: dusat Dutch: stampen Dutch: vertrappen Finnish: talloa French: piétiner French: fouler Galician: trepar Galician: tripar Galician: pisar German: treten German: festtreten German: stampfen German: feststampfen German: austreten German: freitreten German: trampeln Italian: calpestare Italian: pestare Italian: pigiare Japanese: 踏む Lithuanian: mindyti Lithuanian: mindžioti Polish: deptać Polish: zdeptać Polish: podeptać Portuguese: espezinhar Romanian: călca Russian: топтать Spanish: zapatear Spanish: pisotear Spanish: patullar Spanish: apisonar Ottoman Turkish: چیكنهمك Ottoman Turkish: طبانلامق Ottoman Turkish: آیاقلامق
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