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skein

C2 noun

skein /skeɪn/ nghĩa là con sợi, cuộn chỉ

Các nghĩa

  1. con sợi, cuộn chỉ

    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; […]

    Reche me that skane of tewly sylk; / And, Wynde me that botowme of such an hew, / Grene, rede, tawny, whyte, blak, purpill, and blew.

    VVhat is ſhe heire to? a braſſe thimble, and / A skeane of brovvn thread?

  2. màng buồng trứng cá

    The membrane of a fish ovary.

    broadly

  3. đàn chim bay (ngỗng, thiên nga)

    A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.

    uk · broadly · collective · dialectal

  4. mớ rối, mạng lưới

    A tangle, a weave, a web.

    figuratively

    […] Achilles Tatius, with a feeling of much insecurity, awaited the unwinding of the perilous skein of state politics, […]

    This evening Bathsheba was unusually excited, her red cheeks and lips contrasting lustrously with the mazy skeins of her shadowy hair.

    Then, beginning in 1959, the skein of convention began to unravel.

  5. chuỗi thắng liên tiếp

    A winning streak.

    figuratively

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Dễ nhầm với

scale /skeɪl/

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