thread of life
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thread of life
noun threads of life · lifethread · life thread
- A metaphor for a person’s lifespan, as generated by Clotho, measured out by Lachesis, and terminated by Atropos.
- DNA. His book also tells of the intense competition between various research workers and groups during the years in which the secrets of "the spiral thread of life" were finally unravelled.
- The link of inheritance from past to present. DOWN the unimaginable corridors of geologic time the thread of life has passed from generation to generation, ever varying but unbroken.
- Destiny, fate. Argo, their thred of life is ſpun.
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noun metaphor for the lifespan of an individual
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noun destiny, fate
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