Definitions for seines

• Definition
• Anagrams (53)

seines seine

Spelling: [seyn]

IPA: /seɪn/

Seines is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in seines (eeinss).

Definitions for seines

noun

1. a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
2. a river in France, flowing NW through Paris to the English Channel. 480 miles (773 km) long.
3. a former department in N France.

verb (used with object)

1. to fish for or catch with a seine.
2. to use a seine in (water).

verb (used without object)

1. to fish with a seine.

Origin of seines

before 950; Middle English seyne, Old English segne West Germanic *sagina Latin sagēna Greek sagḗnē fishing net

Examples for seines

So we saw the world those days in the radiant city on the seine.

So I went to the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital a couple of miles away and across the seine.

In 1732, one Henri Pitot was taking scientific measurements of the flow of the seine.

The address on the note was to a street at some distance, on the other side of the seine.

She has turned the London Tower Bridge and a floating glass boat over the Paris seine into runways in the past.

The Venus de Medici has at last found her way down the seine.

As a matter of course, the seine will be in the middle, broad, immense.'

She walked on yet more slowly, watching the seine as it flowed past.

Their rotten boat, staved in, had gone to the bottom of the seine.

A weathered man was playing the sax alongside the seine as our cab turned into the Musée du Quai Branly.