Seined vs Skeined - What's the difference?
seined | skeined |
(seine)
A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish.
* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 169:
(label) To use a seine, to fish with a seine.
(skein)
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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As verbs the difference between seined and skeined
is that seined is past tense of seine while skeined is past tense of skein.seined
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(head)Anagrams
* * * *seine
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Noun
(Seine fishing) (en noun)- They were too busy hauling at ropes, collectively drawing a large seine across the bay before them – and singing their hearts out.
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(sein)Derived terms
*Anagrams
* English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----skeined
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(head)skein
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(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)