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1. Put down or press the foot, place the foot
   "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread";
   - step
    
2. Walk heavily or roughly
   "The soldiers trod across the fields";
   - trample
    
3. Crush as if by treading on
   "tread grapes to make wine"
    
4. Brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the centre
    
5. Apply (the tread) to a tire
    
6. Mate with (used of male birds)
   "male birds tread the females"

1. A step in walking or running
   - pace, stride
    
2. The grooved surface of a pneumatic tire
    
3. The part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground
    
4. Structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step
    
5. The top of a step on a staircase

Derived forms: trodden, trod, treading, treads

Type of: apply, brace, contact, copulate, couple, crush, give, go, locomote, mash, mate, move, pair, squash, squeeze, squelch, squidge [informal], squish [informal], step, structural member, surface, tangency, travel, walk

Part of: pneumatic tire [N. Amer], pneumatic tyre [Brit], stair, step, walk, walking

Encyclopedia: Tread