different between skein vs sein

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) skean, skain

Etymology

From Middle English skayne, from Old French escaigne (Modern French écagne), probably of Proto-Celtic origin, from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to split off”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: sk?n, IPA^(key): /ske?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

skein (plural skeins)

2. A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.
   • 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part I:

     You hold the skein: wind, Thomas, wind

     The thread of eternal life and death.

3. (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.

4. (zoology) The membrane of a fish ovary.
5. (wagonmaking) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.

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6. (zoology, Britain, dialect) A group of wild fowl, (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
7. (sports) A winning streak.
8. (radio, television, dated) A series created by a web (major broadcasting network).
   • 1950, Billboard (volume 62, number 9)

     All three tele skeins are pitching furiously to snag the super Easter Day tele show to be bankrolled by Frigidaire, […]

   • 1963, Radio Television Daily (volume 93, page 5)

     Three comedy shows from the U. S. are in the CTV lineup: CBSTV's Phil Silvers and Danny Thomas skeins and NBC-TV's "Harry's Girls."

Translations

Verb

skein (third-person singular simple present skeins, present participle skeining, simple past and past participle skeined)

1. To wind or weave into a skein.

See also

• gaggle
• wedge

Anagrams

• Kines, Knies, Neski, Nikes, Sinke, e-skin, inkes, kines

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skai?n/

Noun

skein f (genitive singular skeinar, plural skeinir)

1. (kvæði) scratch, small wound

Declension

Related terms

• (common): skeina

Verb

skein

1. shone, singular past of skína (to shine)

Icelandic

Verb

skein

1. first-person singular past active indicative of skína
2. third-person singular past active indicative of skína
3. second-person singular active imperative of skeina

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• skinte

Verb

skein

1. simple past of skinne

Anagrams

• kisen, kneis, knise, ksien, nikse, siken, sinke, Skien, skien, sneik, snike

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

skein

1. past of skina

English

Noun

sein (plural seins)

1. Archaic spelling of seine.

Anagrams

• EINs, NIEs, Nies, SINE, sien, sine, snie

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *seni.

Noun

sein anim

1. child

Declension

Further reading

• “sein” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “sein” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?i?n/
• Hyphenation: sein
• Rhymes: -?i?n

Etymology 1

From Old French seigne, a northern variant of signe, from Latin signum. Doublet of zegen.

Noun

sein n (plural seinen, diminutive seintje n)

1. signal

   Synonym: signaal

Derived terms

• noodsein

Related terms

• seinen

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: sein

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

sein

1. first-person singular present indicative of seinen
2. imperative of seinen

References

Anagrams

• Ines, nies

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *saina, borrowed from a Baltic language, compare Latvian siena. Finnish seinä is of the same origin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?sei?n/

Noun

sein (genitive seina, partitive seina)

1. wall

Declension

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sei?n/, [?s?e?i?n]
• Rhymes: -ein
• Syllabification: sein

Noun

sein

1. Genitive singular form of sei.
2. Instructive plural form of sei.

Noun

sein

1. Instructive plural form of see.

Anagrams

• -isen, ensi, ensi-, ines, sine

French

Etymology

From Old French sein, inherited from Latin sinus, ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin. Doublet of sinus. Compare Italian seno, Romanian sân, Romansch sain, Portuguese seio, Spanish seno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/
• Homophones: sain, sains, saint, saints, seing, seings, seins

Noun

sein m (plural seins)

1. (anatomy) breast

2. (literary) womb

3. bosom

Synonyms

• (breast): poitrine, (Quebec, slang) boule, (slang) nichon, nibard, nib, (informal) tété, lolo, néné, robert, (France, informal) gougoutte

Derived terms

• au sein de
• donner le sein

Further reading

• “sein” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• Inès, nies, niés, sien

German

Alternative forms

• seyn (obsolete)
• syn (obsolete) (frühneuhochdeutsch, for example used by the following authors: Sebastian Brant, Das Narrenschiff, 1494; Jacob Ruff, Adam und Heva)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /za??n/
• Rhymes: -a??n
• Homophone: seinen (according to a common pronunciation of this form)

Etymology 1

From Middle High German sein, s?n, from Old High German s?n (“to be”) (suppleted with Proto-Germanic *wesan? (“to be”) and *beun? (“to be, exist, become”)), from Proto-Indo-European *es-, *h?es- (“to be, exist”). Cognate with Dutch zijn (“to be”), Low German ween, sien. More at sooth.

Verb

sein (irregular, third-person singular present ist, past tense war, past participle gewesen, past subjunctive wäre, auxiliary sein)

1. (copulative, with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) to be

2. (with a dative object and certain adjectives) to feel, (to experience a condition)

   Usage: In this sense sein is always conjugated in the third person singular and takes a Dative noun. The impersonal subject es may be present, but is often taken as implied. For example: "Mir ist warm," "Mir ist es warm," and "Es ist mir warm," may all be translated as "I'm warm," or literally as "(To) me (it) is warm." See Usage notes for the respective adjectives.

3. (with a dative object and nach or danach, sometimes with zumute) to feel like, to be in the mood for

   Usage: As in the previous sense sein takes a Dative noun and is always conjugated according to the impersonal subject es, although it is usually omitted.

4. (auxiliary) forms the present perfect and past perfect tense of certain intransitive verbs

5. (intransitive) to exist; there to be; to be alive

6. (intransitive, colloquial) to have the next turn (in a game, in a queue, etc.)

7. (intransitive, childish) to be "it"; to be the tagger in a game of tag

Conjugation

Alternative forms:

• Past participle: gewest (obsolete; poetical)
• Second-person plural preterite indicative: waret (older; poetical)

The subjunctive I (first and third person) and indicative (first person only) forms are also used as imperatives.

Derived terms

• an sein
• auf sein
• aus sein
• da sein
• weg sein
• zu sein
• Dasein n
• Glücklichsein n

Etymology 2

From Middle High German sein, s?n, from Old High German s?n, from Proto-West Germanic *s?n, from Proto-Germanic *s?naz (“his own, her own, its own, their own”) (a reflexive possessive), from genitive of Proto-Indo-European *swé with denominative suffix Proto-Indo-European *-nós, equivalent to the genitive form of *se-.

Cognate with Low German sien (“his, its”), Dutch zijn (“his, its”), Danish sin (“his, her, its, their”), Old English s?n (“his, its”).

Determiner

sein

1. his
2. its (agreeing with a neuter or masculine noun)
   1. (informal) Used to express an approximate number, often with so.

3. one's

Usage notes

When used as a pronoun, the nominative masculine takes the form seiner, and the nominative/accusative neuter takes the form seines or seins.

Inflection

See also

Nominatives of the possessive pronouns:

Pronoun

sein

1. (dated) genitive of er
2. (dated) genitive of es

Anagrams

• eins

Gothic

Romanization

sein

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German sein, s?n, from Old High German s?n, from Proto-West Germanic *s?n (“his”). Cognate with German sein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa??n/

Determiner

sein

1. his
2. its (agreeing with a neuter or masculine noun)

Inflection

¹Form used when the plural of the noun is the same as the singular

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch sein (“signal”), from Old French seigne, a northern variant of signe, from Latin signum. Doublet of sinyal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se??n/
• Hyphenation: séin

Noun

sein

1. signal

   Synonyms: tanda, isyarat

2. short for lampu sein.

Alternative forms

• sen

Further reading

• “sein” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Verb

sein

1. Alternative form of seien

Middle Irish

Determiner

sein

1. Alternative form of sin (“that”)

Pronoun

sein

1. Alternative form of sin (“that”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse seinn

Adjective

sein (neuter singular seint, definite singular and plural seine, comparative seinere, indefinite superlative seinest, definite superlative seineste)

1. alternative form of sen

References

• “sein” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse seinn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæ?n/ (example of pronunciation)

Adjective

sein (masculine and feminine sein, neuter seint, definite singular and plural seine, comparative seinare, indefinite superlative seinast, definite superlative seinaste)

1. slow
2. late (arriving after expected time)
3. late (near the end of a period of time)

References

• “sein” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• eins, isen, isne, neis, nesi, nise, sein, seni, si-en, sine, Sine

Old French

Etymology

From Latin sinus

Noun

sein m (oblique plural seinz, nominative singular seinz, nominative plural sein)

1. breast (anatomy)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) sain
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sagn

Etymology

From Latin sinus (compare French sein, Italian seno, Romanian sân, Spanish seno).

Noun

sein m

1. (Sursilvan, anatomy) breast (of a woman)

Related terms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) pèz
• (Sutsilvan) péz
• (Puter, Vallader) pet

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *saina. Related to Finnish seinä.

Noun

sein

1. wall

West Frisian

Etymology

From Dutch sein (“signal”), from Old French seigne, a northern variant of signe.

Pronunciation

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /sai?n/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /s?i?n/

Noun

sein n (plural seinen, diminutive seintsje)

1. signal

Further reading

• “sein (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

• sain

Etymology

From Old Norse seinn, from Proto-Germanic *sainaz, *sainijaz, related to *s?þuz (“late”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sé???n/ (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -é???n

Adjective

sein

1. well late; arriving late; sluggish, tardy

Derived terms