How to say "thread" in Japanese

• 糸いとJLPT N4approx.Common
  noun, noun (suffix)Thread as a physical material: what you sew, knit, or tie things with; it also covers yarn and string. For figurative 'thread' — a connection or an argument — use 一脈 or 筋道 instead.
  おばあちゃんは身みをかがめて糸いとの付ついた針はりを拾ひろった。↗

  My grandma stooped down and picked up a needle and thread.
• 一脈いちみゃくCommon
  nounA figurative thread: an underlying line of connection or continuity linking people, ideas, or traditions — the 'vein' that two things share. It never refers to physical thread.
• 筋道すじみちCommon
  nounThe thread of an argument or line of reasoning: whether an explanation hangs together logically. It also means method, system, or order, and is not a word for physical thread.

Use 糸 for literal thread, yarn, or string; 一脈 for a figurative thread of connection between people or things; and 筋道 for the thread of an argument or reasoning.

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• 糸いとthread
• 一脈いちみゃく(a) vein
• 糸しthread
• スレthread (on an Internet forum, mailing list, etc.)
• スレッドthread (of execution)
• 一糸いっしthread
• 糸を通すいとをとおすto thread (e.g. a needle, beads, etc.)
• スッドレthread (on an Internet forum, mailing list, etc.)
• トピtopic (on an Internet forum, Q&A website, etc.)
• 連ツイれんツイsuccessive tweets
• ツリーthread (on Twitter)
• 通すとおすto stick through (e.g. a hole)
• 文理ぶんりline of thought (in a piece of writing)
• 筋道すじみちmethod
• 筋目すじめreason
• やまprotruding or high part of an object
• 脈みゃくthread (of an argument)