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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.
1. a. : to step or walk on or over. b. : to walk or proceed along : follow. treading a fine line between tradition and innovation. 2. a. : to form by treading : beat. tread a path. b. : to execute by stepping or dancing. tread a measure. 3. a. : to beat or press with the feet : trample. b. : to subdue or repress as if by trampling : crush. 4.
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.
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 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
