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单词 tread
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treadverb [ I or T, usually + adv/prep ]

uk/tred/us/tred/trod or US also treaded, trodden or US and Australian English also trod

C2 mainly UK to put your foot on something or to press something down with your foot:

I kept treading on his toes when we were dancing.
Yuck! Look what I've just trodden in!
A load of food had been trodden into the carpet.
Before the days of automation, they used to tread grapes to make wine.

literary to walk:

He trod heavily and reluctantly up the stairs.
I sometimes see him flash past in his sports car as I tread my weary way (= walk in a tired way) to work.
tread water

to float vertically in the water by moving the legs and the arms up and down

More examples

  • 'Hey, mind!' he said when she trod on his foot.
  • She got badly spiked when one of the runners trod on her heel.
  • He trod heavily and reluctantly up the stairs.
  • I accidentally trod on the dog's foot and it yelped.
  • Mind you don't tread in the mud.

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Walking and walkers

  • bring/call sth/sb to heel idiom
  • cavalcade
  • heel
  • hike
  • hiker
  • hoof
  • hoof it idiom
  • jaywalk
  • pace
  • parade
  • ramble
  • sleepwalker
  • somnambulism
  • step
  • stretch
  • stretch your legs idiom
  • stride
  • ticker-tape parade
  • toddle
  • walker

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Swimming

Idiom(s)

be treading water
tread carefully/gently/lightly
tread the boards

treadnoun

uk/tred/us/tred/

tread noun (PATTERN ON TYRE)

[ C or U ] the pattern of raised lines on a tyre that prevents a vehicle from sliding on the road:

The tread on your tyres is very worn.

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The exterior of vehicles

  • brake light
  • bull bar
  • bumper sticker
  • inner tube
  • Klaxon
  • licence plate
  • license plate number
  • offside
  • petrol cap
  • radial
  • retread
  • roll bar
  • roof
  • roof rack
  • side mirror
  • splash guard
  • stepney
  • vanity plates
  • wing
  • wing mirror

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tread noun (STEP)

[ S ] the sound that your feet make on the ground as you walk:

Then I heard someone's tread on the stairs.

[ S ] the horizontal part of a step on which you put your foot

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Sounds made by objects, movement or impact

  • clash
  • crackling
  • ding
  • ding-a-ling
  • ding-dong
  • fizz
  • hoot
  • knock
  • pip
  • rasp
  • ringer
  • rumbling
  • sing
  • slam
  • swish
  • thud
  • ting
  • twang
  • whine
  • whistle

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Parts of buildings: stairs & lifts
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