Eye of a needle
The eye of the needle is a mostly elongated oval, sometimes also circular opening at the beginning of a sewing machine needle or at the end of a hand sewing needle.
use
It is used when sewing a thread to the sewing needle to be mounted. Passing the thread through the eye of the needle is also known as threading . To make this easier, there are so-called threading aids , a tool that is provided with a thin wire and is slightly larger than a thumb-size. Due to the stability of the thin wire in the form of a closed, diamond or egg-shaped loop, this can be better guided through the eye. The thread to be threaded is then put through the loop and the threading aid with the thread is pulled back through the eye. What remains in the eye of the needle is the thread. Modern household sewing machines can automatically thread the thread into the eye of the needle.
The origin of the word Öhr is traced back to the word Ohr .
Figurative meaning
In a figurative sense, one speaks of a bottleneck when a bottleneck is meant, for example in road traffic , when a particularly large number of vehicles have to pass in a narrow place so that a traffic jam can hardly be avoided. In a large city or castle gate, the eye of the needle is a small, separate door for pedestrian traffic, known as a slip gate .
The parable of the eye of the needle comes from Jesus : For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God . Gospel of Matthew 19:24 and Gospel of Luke 18:25., Or "through the eye of the needle" Gospel of Mark 10:25
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- ↑ Duden Volume 7, The Dictionary of Origin . ISBN 3-411-00907-1 , p. 478