TREAD


Meaning of TREAD in English

I.

noun

1 sound you make when you are walking

ADJECTIVE

▪ heavy

I heard his heavy ~ moving about upstairs.

▪ light , soft

▪ measured , slow , steady

VERB + TREAD

▪ hear

PREPOSITION

▪ with a … ~

A policeman walked by with a slow, measured ~.

2 on a tyre/tire

ADJECTIVE

▪ tyre/tire , wheel

▪ worn

The tyre/tire ~ is worn below the legal limit.

▪ tank ( esp. AmE )

TREAD + NOUN

▪ depth , pattern

II.

verb

ADVERB

▪ heavily

He came down the stairs, ~ing as heavily as he could.

▪ gently , lightly , softly

▪ carefully , cautiously , gingerly , warily

The government will have to ~ carefully in handling this issue. ( figurative )

She trod gingerly. It would be risky to hurry.

▪ with care , with caution

▪ down

She planted the seeds and trod the earth down.

PREPOSITION

▪ in ( BrE )

Billy trod in a big puddle.

▪ into ( BrE )

Some cake crumbs had been trodden into the carpet.

▪ on ( BrE )

Be careful not to ~ on the flowers.

Tread is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ grape , ↑ ground , ↑ path

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .