skein in Tagalog
labay
/skeɪn/
skein in Tagalog: labay. In English, skein means a quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
Tagalog words for skein
- quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape
- labay
English meaning of skein
- noun A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
- noun The membrane of a fish ovary.
- noun A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.
- noun Synonym of spireme (“the tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis, originally believed to be a single continuous strand (or two in a diploid cell, etc.)”).
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Questions about skein in Tagalog
- What is the meaning of skein in Tagalog?
- Skein in Tagalog is labay.
- Ano ang skein sa Tagalog?
- Skein: labay.
- What does skein mean in English?
- Skein means a quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
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