English Dictionary

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

To prepare for dyeing, the technician wound a skein of cotton yarn by making eighty turns around a fifty-four-inch reel.

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。

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.

Coordinate term: hank

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[…]

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.

One of the free-state settlers went to the blacksmith's shop unarmed, carrying a waggon skein to be repaired.

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.

意味（6）

(sports) A winning streak.

意味（7）

(radio, television, dated) A series created by a web (major broadcasting network).

All three tele skeins are pitching furiously to snag the super Easter Day tele show to be bankrolled by Frigidaire, […]

skeins （ plural ）