skein
A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted…A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
» Skeins of geese were flying back to the mudflats at sunset.
Gänseschwärme flogen bei Sonnenuntergang zurück ins Watt.
Значение
значений: 9A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
Gebinde
мото́кmotók, мото́к пря́жиmotók prjáži
клубокklubok, мотокmotok
A thing resembling a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) of thread, yarn, etc.
(шире)The membrane of a fish ovary.
(Британия, шире, собирательное, диалектное)A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.
Schar
(переносно)A tangle, a weave, a web.
(переносно)A winning streak.
(США, устаревшее, переносно)A series created by a web (“major broadcasting network”).
(переходный)A thin strip of an osier (“long, pliable twig from a plant, usually a willow”) used in basketmaking.
(США, устаревшее, переходный)A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle of a wagon.
A thing resembling a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) of thread, yarn, etc.
(также, атрибутивное, шире, устаревшее)Synonym of spireme (“the tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis, originally believed to be a single continuous strand (or two in a diploid cell, etc.)”).
- coils of worsted yarn
Примеры
предложений: 1Skeins of geese were flying back to the mudflats at sunset.
deGänseschwärme flogen bei Sonnenuntergang zurück ins Watt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Переводы
языков: 8По значениям 1
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Происхождение
The noun is derived from Middle English skaine, skayne (“quantity of string, thread, etc.,The noun is derived from Middle English skaine, skayne (“quantity of string, thread, etc., wound on a reel; the string, thread, etc., so wound”), from Old French escaigne (modern French écagne, écaigne (Picardy)); further etymology uncertain, probably from Proto-Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to split off”).
From Dutch scheen (“strip of metal or wood; (anatomy) shin”), from Middle Dutch schene, from Old Dutch *skina, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu (“bar; track; (anatomy) shin; spine”), from Proto-Germanic *skinō (“piece; plate; rim; (anatomy) shinbone”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”). Doublet of shin.
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