skein

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

skeinsskainskean

1.
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.
2.
(by extension) A thing resembling a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) of thread, yarn, etc.
3.
(figuratively)A tangle, a weave, a web.
4.
(figuratively)A winning streak.
5.
(US, dated, figuratively)A series created by a web (“major broadcasting network”).
6.
(transitive)A thin strip of an osier (“long, pliable twig from a plant, usually a willow”) used in basketmaking.
7.
(US, dated, transitive)(US, road transport, dated) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle of a wagon.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

skeins

V_ing/Gerund

skeining

V_ed/pp

skeined

1.
(transitive)To weave or wind (thread, yarn, etc.) into a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).
2.
(figuratively, transitive)(figurative) To intertwine or weave (something) with another thing.

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skainsmateskeinlike

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro The noun is derived from Middle English skaine, skayne, from Old French escaigne (modern écagne, écaigne Picardy); further etymology uncertain, probably from -, from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (to split off).