thread

continuous strand formed of filament fiber or spun, twisted, and plied short fibers, used for sewing and needlework
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thread

Summary

thread ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (82 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • thread's image is recorded as Bobines (4732394303).jpg[2].
  • thread's made from material is recorded as wool[3].
  • thread's made from material is recorded as flax[4].
  • thread's made from material is recorded as cotton[5].
  • thread's made from material is recorded as hemp fiber[6].
  • thread's made from material is recorded as silk[7].
  • thread's made from material is recorded as fiber[8].
  • thread's GND ID is recorded as 4122137-0[9].
  • thread's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85135003[10].
  • thread's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119782672[11].
  • thread's subclass of is recorded as yarn[12].
  • thread's subclass of is recorded as textile[13].
  • thread's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00564321[14].
  • thread's part of is recorded as woven fabric[15].
  • thread's has use is recorded as sewing[16].
  • thread's Commons category is recorded as Threads (textile)[17].
  • thread's Unicode character is recorded as 🧵[18].
  • thread's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0gg82w_[19].
  • thread's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300014250[20].
  • thread's described by source is recorded as Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles[21].
  • thread's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • thread's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • thread's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • thread's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/thread-textile[25].
  • thread's fabrication method is recorded as spinning[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for thread include thread[27], a computer science term[28] and lepidocrocite[29], a mineral species[30].

Why It Matters

thread ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (82 views/month).[1] thread has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] thread is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for thread include thread[27], a computer science term[28] and lepidocrocite[29], a mineral species[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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