Gebinde — meaning in English
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English meaning
- barrel noun A large, round wooden or metal container, usually bulging in the middle, used to store liquids or other goods.
- skein noun A loosely wound coil of thread or yarn, gathered together after being taken off a reel.
- wreath noun A ring-shaped arrangement of flowers, leaves, or other material, used for decoration or as a mark of honor or remembrance.
Senses
Gebinde is used for these senses in English:
- barrel (countable) A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
- skein A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together in an oblong shape, 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.
- wreath An ornamental circular band made, for example, of plaited flowers and leaves, and used as decoration; a garland or chaplet, especially one given to a victor.
barrel — full definition
- noun A large, round wooden or metal container, usually bulging in the middle, used to store liquids or other goods.
- noun A unit of volume, especially for measuring oil.
- noun The long metal tube of a gun through which a bullet travels.
- verb To move very fast, often in an uncontrolled way.
skein — full definition
- noun A loosely wound coil of thread or yarn, gathered together after being taken off a reel.
- noun Something shaped like a loosely wound coil of thread or yarn.
- noun The thin covering surrounding the eggs inside a fish.
- noun A group of wild birds, such as geese, flying together.
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