English-Portuguese translations for tread

• espezinhar
• pisar
  Nenhum civil pode pisar uma mina finlandesa nem pisar acidentalmente um detonador de uma mina não deflagrada. No civilian can tread on a Finnish mine or accidentally step on the tripwire of a deactivated mine.
  A minha questão a este respeito é a seguinte: estamos mesmo a pisar aqui terreno perigoso ou este receio é infundado? My question about this is, are we really treading risky ground here, or is this fear unfounded?
  Mais uma vez, neste caso, impõe-se pisar terrenos que trazem algum desconforto aos Estados-Membros, mas que há que enfrentar. Here again we may need to tread on territory that makes Member States uncomfortable, but it has to be faced.

Definition of tread

• To step or walk ; to trample
• To step or walk upon
• To beat or press with the feet
• To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc
• To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue
• To copulate; said of birds
• To copulate with
• A step taken with the foot
• The sound made when someone or something is walking
• A way; a track or path
• The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs
• The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
• The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle
• The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet

Examples

• He trod back and forth wearily
• Dont tread on the lawn
• Actors tread the boards
• to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path

Related words

• treadmill
• treading
• retread
• treadle
• retreading
• tread water
• tread lightly
• tread the boards
• tread on