Look up: skein

1. skein
   A continuous strand of YARN arranged in a loose coil.
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2. skein
   [n] - coils of worsted yarn
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3. skein
   an appreciable length of yarn or thread that has been wound into a reel or swift from some machine or device Category: Various industries and crafts • silk is wound up by the rooler in the form of --. These are made up into bundles of about 6 lbs., called books. Category: Various industries and crafts
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4. Skein
   Skein noun [ Middle English skeyne , Old French escaigne , French écagne , probably of Celtic origin; confer Ir. sgainne , Gael. sgeinnidh thread, small twine; or perhaps the English word is immediately from Celtic.] ...
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5. Skein
   Skein noun (Zoology) A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like). [ Prov. Eng.]
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6. skein
   1. 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. ... A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread round a fifty-four inch reel. ... 2. A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle....
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7. skein
   noun coils of worsted yarn
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8. 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).
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9. Skein
   [comics] Skein (real name Sybil Dvorak, formerly known as Gypsy Moth and Sybarite) is a fictional character, a mutant supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. ==Publication history== The character first appeared in Spider-Woman (1st series) #10, as Gypsy Moth, and was created by Mark Grue...
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10. skein
    a coil of yarn or cord. In retail trade, a skein is a highly variable unit, varying from one type of yarn to another and often from one manufacturer to another. In textile manufacturing, however, the skein is a unit of length equal to the lea.
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11. Skein
    A skein is a measure of cotton equal to eighty threads.
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12. Skein
    Skein is the collective noun for a group of geese in flight.
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13. skein
    Type: Term Pronunciation: skān Definitions: 1. The coiled threads of chromatin seen in the prophase of mitosis.
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14. Skein
    [disambiguation] Connective tissue diseases are caused by a complex array of autoimmune responses that target or affect collagen or ground substance. ...
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15. Skein
    [hash function] Skein is a cryptographic hash function and one out of five finalists in the NIST hash function competition to design what will become the SHA-3 standard, the intended successor of SHA-1 and SHA-2. The name Skein refers to how the Skein function intertwines the input, similar ...
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16. Skein
    [hash] Gatecon logo ==History of Image:Gatecon logo black.jpg== ...
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