Meaning of tread In English

• 0 to put your foot on something or to press something down with your foot:

  • I kept treading on his toes when we were dancing.

  • Yuck! Look what I've just trodden in!

  • A load of food had been trodden into the carpet.

  • Before the days of automation, they used to tread grapes to make wine.

  • He trod heavily and reluctantly up the stairs.

  • I sometimes see him flash past in his sports car as I tread my weary way (= walk in a tired way) to work.

• 1 the pattern of raised lines on a tyre that prevents a vehicle from sliding on the road:

  • The tread on your tyres is very worn.

• 2 the sound that your feet make on the ground as you walk:

  • Then I heard someone's tread on the stairs.

• 3 to put the foot down while stepping, or to step on something:

  • [ I ] fig. I hope I haven’t trod on other people’s toes by saying this.

• 4 the raised pattern on a tire that holds the vehicle to the road as it moves:

  • [ U ] fat tires with knobby tread

• 5 the sound that someone’s feet make in walking:

  • I heard the heavy tread of my father overhead.