The difference between Skein and Wedge
When used as nouns, skein means a quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, 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, whereas wedge means one of the simple machines.
When used as verbs, skein means to wind or weave into a skein, whereas wedge means to support or secure using a wedge.
check bellow for the other definitions of Skein and Wedge
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Skein as a noun:
A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, 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.
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Skein as a noun (figuratively):
A web, a weave, a tangle.
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Skein as a noun (zoology):
The membrane of a fish ovary.
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Skein as a noun:
A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
Examples:
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Skein as a noun (zoology, provincial England):
A group of wild fowl, (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
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Skein as a noun (sports):
A winning streak.
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Skein as a verb:
To wind or weave into a skein.
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Wedge as a noun:
One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
Examples:
"Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut."
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Wedge as a noun:
A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
Examples:
"Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?"
"We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza."
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Wedge as a noun (geometry):
A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
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Wedge as a noun (figurative):
Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
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Wedge as a noun (archaic):
A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
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Wedge as a noun (golf):
A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
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Wedge as a noun:
A group of geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
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Wedge as a noun:
One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
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Wedge as a noun (colloquial, British):
A quantity of money.
Examples:
"I made a big fat wedge from that job."
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Wedge as a noun (typography, US):
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Wedge as a noun (phonetics):
The character ⟨⟩, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
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Wedge as a noun (mathematics):
The symbol , denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
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Wedge as a noun (meteorology):
a wedge tornado
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Wedge as a verb:
To support or secure using a wedge.
Examples:
"I wedged open the window with a screwdriver."
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Wedge as a verb (ambitransitive):
To force into a narrow gap.
Examples:
"He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa."
"I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully."
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Wedge as a verb:
To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
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Wedge as a verb (computing, informal, intransitive):
Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
Examples:
"My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update."
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Wedge as a noun (UK, Cambridge University slang):
The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.