untai — meaning in English

English meaning

• couplet noun A set of two things, particularly.
• 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.

Senses

untai is used for these senses in English:

• couplet (literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
• 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.

couplet — full definition

1. noun A set of two things, particularly.
2. noun A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
3. noun Ellipsis of antithetical couplet, Chinese couplet, or duilian couplet (“duilian”).
4. noun A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.

skein — full definition

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 A thing resembling a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) of thread, yarn, etc.
3. noun The membrane of a fish ovary.
4. noun A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.

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