thread of life

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A metaphor for a person’s lifespan, as generated by Clotho, measured out by Lachesis, and terminated by Atropos.
2. isim 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.”

3. isim 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.”

4. isim Destiny, fate.

   “Argo, their thred of life is ſpun.”