skein meaning in Tamil
நூற்களி
/skeɪn/
skein in Tamil: நூற்களி, புரி, பறக்கும் வாத்து, நாரை முதலியவைகளிறன் கூட்டம். 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.
Tamil words for skein
- நூற்களி, புரி, பறக்கும் வாத்து, நாரை முதலியவைகளிறன் கூட்டம்
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 Tamil
- What is the meaning of skein in Tamil?
- Skein in Tamil is நூற்களி, புரி, பறக்கும் வாத்து, நாரை முதலியவைகளிறன் கூட்டம்.
- skein என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
- Skein: நூற்களி, புரி, பறக்கும் வாத்து, நாரை முதலியவைகளிறன் கூட்டம்.
- 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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Tamil words from Tamil Wiktionary: skein (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: skein (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Tamil words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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