Seine

//sɛn// name, noun, verb

name, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish.

    "We all went on Monday Evening to the sea shore, to see the scene Drawn: this is a most curious Work: and all done by Women."

  2. 2
    a large fishnet that hangs vertically, with floats at the top and weights at the bottom wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To use a seine, to fish with a seine. ambitransitive

    "This was especially the case with seining for pilchards."

  2. 2
    fish with a seine; catch fish with a seine wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A river in northern France that flows through Paris for about 772 km (480 mi) to the English Channel near Le Havre.
  2. 2
    A former department of France, the capital city of which was Paris.

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Example

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"The river which flows through Paris is the Seine."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old English seġne, from Proto-West Germanic *sagīna, from Latin sagēna, from Ancient Greek σαγήνη (sagḗnē, “dragnet”), of unknown origin.

Etymology 2

From French Seine.

Related phrases

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