(transitive) To resume something that was paused or halted. / (transitive, by extension) To restart after a disaster or trauma.

(idiomatic) To resume an activity after an interruption; to pick up.

present participle of hang by a thread

(idiomatic) To be in danger, calling for precise caution; to be in a precarious situation.

(engineering) A helical ridge formed around a cylinder, or a helical groove formed around the inner wall of a bore, used mostly on fasteners and their connection points.

a screw or worm gear having four equal threads and thus capable of being started in four places

(Internet, slang) On an Internet forum, the act of posting in a thread that is already considered dead and/or out of discussion.

A measure of the fineness of fabric; the total number of vertical and horizontal threads per unit of surface, such as a square inch.

A piece of thin soft paper for wrapping up a skein of thread.

plural of thread-paper