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Перевод: skein

[существительное]
моток пряжи; путаница ; неразбериха ; стая диких птиц

Тезаурус:

1. Corbett tried to think back, unravelling the skein of information he had gathered.
2. Well, the answer is wrapped in a skein of social processes and, in the course of this book, I plan to unravel as many of them as possible.
3. The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus, who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king's daughter, ARIADNE.
4. The elderly woman separated a skein of red silk from the bundle in her lap and gave it to her.
5. In 1977 the skein of any agreement on wages policy began to come apart.
6. Murray bought his compass and they walked on together, beginning the skein of meaningless jokes and catchwords which was to bind them together in the next few weeks.
7. Its major advantage is that it trains students to deal with the unpredictable nature of language, to think on their feet, and "to handle the skein of language as it unravels".
8. Many insects and their larvae eat the leaves of plants, and in recent years a complex skein of plant-insect interactions have been glimpsed.
9. He rose, walked round the table and picked up the skein.
10. then down the wind came the boom of the great stanchion-gun; and after that sound another sound, louder as it neared; a cry as of all the bells of Cambridge, and all the hounds of Cottesmore; and overhead rushed and whirled the skein of terrified wild-fowl, screaming, piping, clacking, croaking, filling the air with the hoarse rattle of their wings, while clear above all sounded the wild whistle of the curlew, and the trumpet note of the great wild swan.
11. When sufficient yarn has been spun on spindle or wheel, it is removed onto a niddy noddy, or skein winder.
12. Your skein of wool
13. The elderly woman pulled at her silks and a skein fell from her lap.