Usually means: Grooves providing grip on surfaces.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. treads: Merriam-Webster
  2. treads: Collins English Dictionary
  3. treads: Vocabulary.com
  4. Treads, treads: Wordnik
  5. treads: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. treads: Wiktionary
  7. treads: Dictionary.com
  8. treads: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Treads: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. treads: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. treads: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. treads: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TREADS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. treads: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. treads, treads: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Treads: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tread)

verb:  (intransitive) To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
verb:  (transitive) To step or walk upon.
verb:  (figuratively, with certain adverbs of manner) To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
verb:  To beat or press with the feet.
verb:  To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
verb:  To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
verb:  To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.
verb:  (intransitive) To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
verb:  (transitive, of a male bird) To copulate with.
verb:  (transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
noun:  A step taken with the foot.
noun:  A manner of stepping.
noun:  The sound made when someone or something is walking.
noun:  (obsolete) A way; a track or path.
noun:  (construction) A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.
noun:  The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
noun:  The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
noun:  (biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
noun:  The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
noun:  (fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
noun:  A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
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