skein

IPA（発音記号）

/skeɪn/

名詞

比喩的用法イギリス英語集合名詞方言古風

A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.

日本語の意味

毛糸や糸などが巻軸から取られた後にまとめられた束（束状の状態） / 糸や綿糸などが一定の量として束ねられた状態

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染色の準備のため、技術者は綿糸を五十四インチのリールに八十回巻いてかせにした。

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意味（1）

A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.

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意味（2）

(figuratively) A web, a weave, a tangle.

He watched her pretty and unconscious munching through the skeins of smoke that pervaded the tent[…]

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意味（3）

(zoology) The membrane of a fish ovary.

意味（4）

(wagonmaking) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.

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意味（5）

(zoology, UK, dialect, collective) A group of wild fowl (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are 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.

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