transcription, транскрипция: [ tred ]
( treads, treading, trod, trodden)
1.
If you tread on something, you put your foot on it when you are walking or standing.
Oh, sorry, I didn’t mean to tread on your foot...
VERB : V on n
2.
If you tread in a particular way, you walk that way. ( LITERARY )
She trod casually, enjoying the touch of the damp grass on her feet.
VERB : V adv
3.
A person’s tread is the sound that they make with their feet as they walk. ( WRITTEN )
We could now very plainly hear their heavy tread.
N-SING : supp N , N of n
4.
If you tread carefully, you behave in a careful or cautious way.
If you are hoping to form a new relationship tread carefully and slowly to begin with...
VERB : V adv
5.
The tread of a step or stair is its flat upper surface.
He walked up the stairs. The treads were covered with a kind of rubber and very quiet.
N-COUNT
6.
The tread of a tyre or shoe is the pattern of thin lines cut into its surface that stops it slipping.
The fat, broad tyres had a good depth of tread.
N-VAR
7.
If someone is treading a fine line or path , they are acting carefully because they have to avoid making a serious mistake, especially in a situation where they have to deal with two opposing demands.
They have to tread the delicate path between informing children and boring them...
PHRASE : V inflects , oft PHR between pl-n
8.
If you tread a particular path , you take a particular course of action or do something in a particular way.
He continues to tread an unconventional path...
PHRASE : V inflects
9.
If someone who is in deep water treads water , they float in an upright position by moving their legs slightly.
PHRASE : V inflects
10.
If you say that someone is treading water , you mean that they are in an unsatisfactory situation where they are not progressing, but are just continuing doing the same things.
I could either tread water until I was promoted, which looked to be a few years away, or I could change what I was doing.
PHRASE : V inflects
11.
to tread on someone’s toes: see toe