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Skein vs Sein - What's the difference?

skein | sein |

As nouns the difference between skein and sein

is that skein is a quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel a skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread round a fifty-four inch reel while sein is .

As a verb skein

is to wind or weave into a skein.

skein

English

(Webster 1913)

Alternative forms

* (obsolete) skean

Noun

(en noun)
  • A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread round a fifty-four inch reel.
  • (figuratively) A web, a weave, a tangle.
  • * 1923 , Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Creeping Man :
    • The practical application of what I have said is very close to the problem which I am investigating. It is a tangled skein , you understand. and I am looking for a loose end.
  • (wagonmaking) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
    • (Knight)
  • (zoology, provincial England) A group of wild fowl, (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
  • (sports) A winning streak.

    • See also

    * gaggle * wedge

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wind or weave into a skein
    • English collective nouns English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----

    sein

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • ----