retread
English
Etymology 1
re- + tread (“grooves carved into the face of a tire”, noun)
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛd
Verb
retread (third-person singular simple present retreads, present participle retreading, simple past and past participle retreaded)
- To replace the traction-providing surface of a vehicle that employs tires, tracks or treads.
- (UK) To renew the tread of a tyre, providing a cheap, and possibly dangerous, product.
Synonyms
- (tyre retread): recap (US)
Noun
retread (plural retreads)
- A used tire whose surface, the tread, has been replaced to extend its life and use.
- (military, slang) a person who re-entered military service in World War Two after serving in World War One.
- 1950, Air Force Association, United States Army, Air Force Magazine:
- In Our War the Retreads usually slinked in over-aged, over-weight and overcautious in the face of a new generation.
- 1971, Brian Garfield, The thousand-mile war: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians:
- They were retreads and recruits under a small cadre of Regular Army officers and noncoms.
- 1976, James Jones, Art Weithas, WW II: a chronicle of soldiering:
- We retreads upset everybody.
- 2006, Keith E Bonn, When the Odds Were Even:
- As with the 100th Division, many of the replacements joining the 103d were "retreads" from the technical services or antiaircraft and aviation troops...
- 1950, Air Force Association, United States Army, Air Force Magazine:
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Verb
retread (third-person singular simple present retreads, present participle retreading, simple past retrod, past participle retrodden)
- (transitive) to tread again, to walk along again, to follow a path again.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
- As a child I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science. With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists. Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy.
Noun
retread (plural retreads)
- (sometimes figurative) A return over ground previously covered; a retraversal or repetition.
- 1998, Frank Rich, Hot seat: theater criticism for the New York times, 1980-1993:
- But The West Side Waltz is otherwise a tedious retread of Mr. Thompson's previous effort, On Golden Pond.
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