Definition of Thread

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Thread

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.

A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.

The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.

Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.

Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.

To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.

To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.

To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.

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Thread Quotations

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao Tzu

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
Morihei Ueshiba

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.
David Bowie

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Horace Mann

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
Marcel Marceau

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
George Herbert

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
Jesse Jackson

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
Eudora Welty

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Chief Seattle

Thread Translations

thread in Dutch is draad, garen
thread in Finnish is lanka
thread in French is enfiler, fil retors, enfilons, enfilent, enfilez
thread in German is Faden, Gewinde, Zwirn, Faden
thread in Italian is filamento
thread in Latin is ligamen
thread in Portuguese is linha
thread in Spanish is hilo, hebra, hilvanar

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