skein – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
skein
n.
spool of yarn or thread; flock of wild birds in flight; coil, something that resembles a spool of yarn or thread
Skein
Skein may refer to:
- A unit of measurement used by weavers and tailors, equal to 96 ells or
- Skein dubh, a Scottish knife
- Skein module, a mathematical concept
- Skein relation, a mathematical concept often used to give a simple definition of knot polynomials
- Skein (comics), a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe
- Skein (hash function), a candidate hash function to the NIST hash function competition from Bruce Schneier et al.
- The part of an axle that a wagon wheel is mounted to
- Skiensvassdraget ("Skien watershed"), a watershed in Norway
- Skein Group, a digital technology company
skein
Noun
1. coils of worsted yarn
(hypernym) hank
Skein
(n.)
A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot.
(n.)
A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
(n.)
A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
skein
Synonyms and related words:
animal fiber, artificial fiber, bevy, capillament, charm, cilium, cirrus, cloud, cobweb, covey, denier, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, flight, flock, gaggle, gossamer, hair, hank, hive, jungle, knot, labyrinth, mesh, morass, murmuration, plague, snarl, spring, strand, suture, swarm, tangle, tendril, thread, threadlet, watch, web
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
