skein

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “Some for very nede / Layde downe a skeyne of threde, / And some a skeyne of yarne; […]”

2. isim The membrane of a fish ovary.
3. isim A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.

   “High above the swallows and 2 miles or so out into the Channel was a skein of geese, probably brent geese on the first day of their emigration from the estuaries of the Channel coast towards the high Arctic tundra of Spitsbergen or Russia.”

4. isim 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.)”).
5. isim A tangle, a weave, a web.

   “Not that I ſee through his perplexed plots, / And hidden ends, nor that my parts depend / Vpon the vnvvinding this ſo knotted skeane, / Doe I beſeech your patience.”

6. isim A winning streak.
7. isim A series created by a web (“major broadcasting network”).

   “Three comedy shows from the U.S. are in the CTV lineup: CBS-TV's Phil Silvers and Danny Thomas skeins and NBC-TV's "Harry's Girls."”

8. fiil To weave or wind (thread, yarn, etc.) into a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).
9. fiil To intertwine or weave (something) with another thing.

   “Water skeined the landscape. The Shannon River, lost since Limerick city, was drawing nearer to name the airport, and a tributary quickened its way towards it.”

10. isim A thin strip of an osier (“long, pliable twig from a plant, usually a willow”) used in basketmaking.

    “[F]or the finer work, as table-mats, fruit and work-baskets, and the like, the osiers are divided into four parts, lengthways, which are called splits, and these are afterwards reduced to various degrees of fineness, when they are called skeins.”

11. isim A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle of a wagon.

    “On November 21, Dow, one of the free-state settlers went to the blacksmith's shop unarmed, carrying a waggon skein to be repaired. While he was at the shop, Coleman and Buckley of Missouri, and another pro-slavery man came up, all armed, and an angry discussion followed.”