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There are two ways of creating a thread:

1. Using a class that extends the Thread class
2. Using a class that implements the Runnable interface (note that Thread implements Runnable)

You start a thread by calling Thread's start() method from some thread. The start() method does the following:

1. Creates a separate thread of execution
2. Starts that thread of execution at the Thread's or Runnable's run() method
3. Returns from the start() call in the starting thread.