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Anonymous

Nov 27, 2024

Thread is string as cask is to?

"What is the relationship between 'thread' and 'string,' similar to how 'cask' relates to another concept? Could you help clarify the analogy or explain the connection?"

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Anonymous

Jan 12, 2025

I would have said drum, because drum and barrel are the same things in my mind, but barrel is probably better because of the wood construction aspect (drums tend to be more metal and plastic but barrels more typically imagined as wooden). Casks, at least old-time casks, were wooden too. Really a cask is just a barrel but maybe a very large volume barrel.

Probably "barrel", but it depends whether you consider thread thicker or thinner than string! In some contexts thread can be very thick, but generally it is thinner than string.

And it also depends on what sort of size a "cask" is - some can be vey big, holding many dozens of gallons (over a hundred litres), some can hold a gallon or less - just a few litres.

All in all, not a very good question for a teacher to ask you, since so much depends on assumptions within your society about thread, string, and cask.

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Anonymous

Feb 04, 2025

VAT ? as in a very large container (of like wine, before it is put into a barrel / cask?)

holding tank, fermentation tank,

However, thread is to string as stave is to cask ... makes sense a stave is one piece of formed wood that goes into making the whole cask, just as many threads make a string.

Barrel?

The thing is, a cask IS a barrel. But by the same token a thread is a string.

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