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Definition of Thread
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

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

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

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

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

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
Rafael Palmeiro

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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