treads
Because it is a word with a single syllable, treads is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions oftreads
- To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
Example: "Don't tread on the lawn."
- To step or walk upon.
Example: "Actors tread the boards."
- To beat or press with the feet.
Example: "to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path"
- To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
- To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
- To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
- (of a male bird) To copulate with.
- A step taken with the foot.
- A manner of stepping.
- The sound made when someone or something is walking.
- A way; a track or path.
- The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
- The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
- The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
- The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
- The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
- (fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
- A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
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