Tra từ tread - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

tread [tread treads trod treading trodden] verb, noun BrE [tred] NAmE [tred]
verb (trodBrE [trɒd] ; NAmE [trɑːd] trod·denBrE [ˈtrɒdn] ; NAmE [ˈtrɑːdn] or trod)
1. intransitive ~ (on/in/over sth/sb) (especially BrE)to put your foot down while you are stepping or walking
•Ouch! You trod on my toe!
•Careful you don't tread in that puddle.
2. transitive ~ sth (+ adv./prep.) to crush or press sth with your feet
Syn: ↑trample
•Don't tread ash into the carpet!
•The wine is still made by treading grapes in the traditional way.
3. transitive, intransitive ~ (sth) (formal or literary)to walk somewhere
•Few people had trod this path before.
•He was treading quietly and cautiously.
more at fools rush in (where angels fear to tread) at ↑fool _n., walk/tread a fine/thin line at ↑line _n., tread/walk a tightrope at ↑tightrope
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English tredan (as a verb), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch treden and German treten.

Example Bank:
•Be careful not to tread on the flowers.
•Billy trod in a big puddle.
•He came down the stairs, treading as heavily as he could.
•She planted the seeds and trod the earth down.
•She trod gingerly. It would be risky to hurry.
•Some cake crumbs had been trodden into the carpet.
•The government will have to tread carefully in handling this issue.
•Careful you don't tread in that puddle.
•We must tread carefully — we don't want to offend anyone.
Idioms: tread a difficult/dangerous/solitary path ▪ tread carefully/warily ▪ ↑tread on somebody's heels ▪ ↑tread on somebody's toes ▪ ↑tread water

noun
1. singular the way that sb walks; the sound that sb makes when they walk
•I heard his heavy tread on the stairs.
2. countable, uncountable the raised pattern on the surface of a tyre on a vehicle
•The tyres were worn below the legal limit of 1.6 mm of tread.
3. countable the upper surface of a step or stair
compare ↑riser

Word Origin:
Old English tredan (as a verb), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch treden and German treten.

Example Bank:
•I heard his heavy tread moving about upstairs.
•The streets have echoed to the tread of feet for more than ten centuries.
•The tyre tread has been worn below the legal limit.
•His tread was measured and stately.
•I could hear his heavy tread on the stairs.
•She moved with the light tread of a dancer.
•The ground shook beneath the weight of their tread.

See also: ↑step on somebody's toes