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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

  1. 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.
  2. noun The membrane of a fish ovary.
  3. noun A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.
  4. 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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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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