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- Dictionarytread/trɛd/
verb
- 1. walk in a specified way: "Rosa trod as lightly as she could" Similar
noun
- 1. a person's manner of walking or the sound made as they walk: "I heard the heavy tread of Dad's boots"
- 2. the top surface of a step or stair.
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TREAD definition: 1. to put your foot on something or to press something down with your foot: 2. to walk: 3. to…. Learn more.
The meaning of TREAD is to step or walk on or over. How to use tread in a sentence.
noun. the action of treading, stepping, or walking. the sound of footsteps. manner of treading or walking. a single step as in walking. any of various things or parts on which a person or thing treads, stands, or moves. the part of the under surface of the foot or of a shoe that touches the ground.
1. to walk or trample in, on, over, or across (something) 2. (when intr, foll by on) to crush or squash by or as if by treading. to tread grapes. to tread on a spider. 3. (intransitive; sometimes foll by on) to subdue or repress, as by doing injury (to) to tread on one's inferiors.
tread. (trĕd) v. trod (trŏd) or treaded, trod·den (trŏd′n) or trod or treaded, tread·ing, treads. v.tr. 1. To walk on, over, or along: tread the pavement. 2. To press beneath the feet; trample: dirt that was trodden into the rug. 3. To treat unjustly or harshly; oppress: people who were trodden down by tyrants. 4.
Tread usually implies stepping with force, but it can also simply mean placing your feet, one after the other, on the ground. You might try to tread lightly on the moss in the backyard so you don't damage it. Tread is also a noun that means the mark that a tire leaves on the ground, or the actual grooves on the tire.
to be very careful about what you do or say. The government will have to tread very carefully in handling this issue. We must tread warily —we don't want to offend anyone. tread a difficult, dangerous, solitary, etc. path. to choose and follow a particular way of life, way of doing something, etc.
TREAD definition: 1. to put your foot on something or to press something down with your foot: 2. to be careful what…. Learn more.
Verb. Noun. Idiom. Filter. verb. treading, treads, trod, trodden. To walk on, in, along, across, over, etc. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To press or beat with the feet so as to crush or injure; trample. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To oppress or subdue, as if by stepping on. Webster's New World. Similar definitions.
Definition of tread noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
