skein 的定义
- a length of yarn or thread wound on a reel or swift preparatory for use in manufacturing.
- anything wound in or resembling such a coil: a skein of hair.
- something suggestive of the twistings of a skein: an incoherent skein of words.
- a flock of geese, ducks, or the like, in flight.
- a succession or series of similar or interrelated things: a skein of tennis victories.
skein 近义词
tangle
更多skein例句
- Murray doesn't draw any at all, and doesn't seem even to be aware that any such skein is required.
- It was a part of himself, woven unchangeably into his life in a glowing skein, the brilliant colors of which could never fade.
- Nevertheless, if the skein of ideas was entangled, each thread in itself was a thread of gold.
- The spinning wheel stands against the wall and above it from a peg hangs a heavy skein of black wool.
- But the Seine was but a skein of silk stretched across the city; the water was hidden by the craft.
- Sometimes I dye one end of a skein, and leave the other untouched; that gives quite a good effect.