threading

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of thread

noun

  1. The act or process by which something is threaded (in various senses).
    The majority, 96.2 percent, of the e-mails had only up to four threadings. 2011, Alexander Gelbukh, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, page 236
  2. An ancient Eastern method for removing hair by means of a thread, which is rolled over the hair in order to pluck it out at the follicle level.

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