Skein vs Senate - What's the difference?
skein | senate |
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 :
(wagonmaking) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
(zoology, provincial England) A group of wild fowl, (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
(sports) A winning streak.
To wind or weave into a skein
English collective nouns
English words not following the I before E except after C rule
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In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber.
A group of experienced, respected, wise individuals serving as decision makers or advisors in a political system or in institutional governance, as in a university, and traditionally of advanced age and male.
* 1818 , ,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 11, stanza 13, lines 4338-9,
As nouns the difference between skein and senate
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 senate is in some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber.As a verb skein
is to wind or weave into a skein.As a proper noun Senate is
any of several legislative bodies. In countries which have multiple legislative bodies, the Senate is often the more senior.skein
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* (obsolete) skeanNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- (Knight)
See also
* gaggle * wedgeVerb
(en verb)senate
English
Noun
(en noun)- Before the Tyrant's throne
- All night his aged Senate sate.