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Definition: Seine |
SeineNoun1. A French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel. 2. A large fishnet that hangs vertically, with floats at the top and weights at the bottom. Verb1. Fish with a seine; catch fish with a seine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Seine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones. The devil casting a seine of lace, (With precious stones 'twas weighted) Drew it into the landing place And its contents calculated. All souls of women were in that sack -- A draft miraculous, precious! But ere he could throw it across his back They'd all escaped through the meshes. Baruch de Loppis. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Part of northern France, showing the route
of the river Seine.
The Seine (pronounced "sen") is a major river of northern France, forming the country's chief commercial waterway. It is also a tourist attraction, particularly within the city of Paris.
The river is 780 km (485 miles) long, France's second longest (after the Loire which is 1020 km (634 miles) long). In ancient times the Seine was known by the Latin name Sequana.
The Seine's main tributaries are the Aube, Marne and Oise rivers from the north and the Yonne and Eure rivers from the south. It is connected with canals to the Scheldt (also called the Escaut), Meuse, Rhine, Saône and Loire rivers.
The Seine rises in the French région of Burgundy, in the département of Côte-d'Or, 30 km (18 miles) northwest of Dijon at a height of 471 metres (1545 feet). The river then flows through Troyes to Paris.
In Paris, narrowed between high stone embankments, the river carries commercial barges, waterbuses and large tourist boats (bateaux-mouches). From the water, fine views are seen of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay (housing Paris' collection of Impressionist art), the Conciergerie and the Eiffel Tower. The northern side of the river is described as the Right Bank (Rive Droite) and the southern side as the Left Bank (Rive Gauche).
The Banks of the Seine in Paris were added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1991.
The river then meanders in large loops through Normandy and Rouen, entering the English Channel (La Manche) in an estuary between Le Havre and Honfleur.
The river Seine in Paris. The Place de la Concorde is top right. Taken from the highest level of the Eiffel Tower.
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The Seine is dredged and oceangoing vessels can dock at Rouen, 120 km (75 miles) from the sea. Commercial riverboats can use the river from Bar-sur-Seine, 560 km (350 miles) from its mouth. At Paris, the river is only 24 metres (80 feet) above sea level, 445 km (277 miles) from its mouth, making it slow flowing and thus easily navigable.
The water of the Seine is an important resource. Electric power stations, thermal and nuclear, pull their cooling water from the river. Half the water used in the Paris region, both for industry and for consumption, and three quarters of the water used in the area between Rouen and Le Havre, is taken from the river.
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Until the administrative reorganization in the 1960s, Seine was département number 75 of France, named after the river and containing the city of Paris and the surrounding area. It was split into 4 départements in 1968: Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne.
A seine (Greek sagéné) is a kind of fishing net.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Seine."
Synonym: SeineSynonym: Seine River (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inclosure | Pen, fold; pen fold, in fold, sheep fold; paddock, pound; corral; yard; net, seine net. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Seine |
| English words defined with "Seine": Belgic ♦ Draught net ♦ fishing net ♦ Ile-St-Louis ♦ Latin Quarter, Le Havre, Left Bank ♦ purse seine ♦ Quai d'Orsay ♦ Right Bank ♦ Seaming, Sean, Seine boat, Seiner, Seining. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Seine": beach seine, brail net, brailer ♦ Danish seine, dip net, Dragon Slayers ♦ fisher, trap, FISHER, WEIR ♦ Gargouille, Grève ♦ hand brailer ♦ lampara net ♦ NAPOLEON, net drum, net roller ♦ Scottish seine, seining vessel, shore seine, SKIFF OPERATOR ♦ Trout, tuna purse seiner. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Seine": Verriculate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Seine" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (dragnet, Sein, seine), German (his, its), Manx (seine ). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Robinson und seine wilden Sklavinnen (1971) Dr. Fummel und seine Gespielinnen (1969) Der Reifenschneider und seine Frau (1969) Graf Porno und seine Mädchen (1969) Genosse Prinz Seine Hoheit (1969) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Eiffel Tower from across Seine River, Paris, France. Credit: CDC. |  | A middle school field trip to Kings Landing. Dragging seine net to determine kinds and variety of organisms present in the river at this time of year. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Dory used as purse seine boat fishing for herring on the Maine coast. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Setting a purse seine inside pocket while fishing for herring on the Maine coast. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Men in the purse seine boats standby as the pumping operation proceeds. The menhaden are being lifted to the mother vessel. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Menhaden fishing - beginning to haul in the purse seine with the power blocks. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Hauling in a seine used to sample flounder to determine exposure to oil. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Fish sampling at Sachuest Marsh. A seine is used to sample resident populations of fish before and after the restoration. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Start of purse seine set on the Fish and Wildlife Service Ship JOHN R. MANNING. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Dr. Picciolo helping local fishermen haul in beach seine net prior to inspecting catch for indigenous species. Credit: Small World. |
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| "Seine paris" by Peter Hellebrand Commentary: "View over the Seine river in Paris. ." | "Parisian boat" by Emmanuel Rivet Commentary: "Bridge : Pont Neuf - River : La Seine - Old boat parked in the river's left side. ." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine nor scaled the quai without being seen by him who was following him. |
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| "Seine" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.14% of the time. "Seine" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 90.14% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.45% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.41% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 71 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Seine": beach seine ♦ bottom seine netter ♦ danish seine ♦ purse seine ♦ Scottish seine ♦ seine boat ♦ seine fishing net ♦ seine net ♦ seine netter ♦ seine river ♦ shore seine. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Seine": Seine-et-marne, seine-net, seine-nets, Seine-sur-mer, Seine-yonne. | |
Ending with "Seine": Bar-sur-seine, purse-seine. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Seine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrjetë (cabling, drag, mesh, net, netting, reticle, screen, sweep net, toils, trail-net), pezaul. (various references) | |
Arabic | نهر السين. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гриб (dragnet), ловя с гриб. (various references) | |
Chinese | 围网. (various references) | |
Czech | řeka ve francii. (various references) | |
Danish | seine-fiskenet (seine fishing net). (various references) | |
Dutch | sleepnet (seine fishing net, trawl, trawl net), zegen (blessing, boon). (various references) | |
Farsi | توربزرگ ماهی گیری , باتورماهی گرفتن . (various references) | |
Finnish | nuotta (seine fishing net, seine net). (various references) | |
French | seine (Sein). (various references) | |
German | Schleppnetz (dredge, trawl, trawl net), wade (calf, calve). (various references) | |
Greek | τράτα (trawl, trawler). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכמורת (dragnet, fishing net, net, trammel, trawl). (various references) | |
Hungarian | húzóháló (dragnet, trail-net, trawl, trawl-net). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pukat (dredge, sweep-net, trail-net, trawl). (various references) | |
Italian | senna (senna), scorticaria (seine fishing net), pescare con la senna. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 地曳き網 (dragnet), 地曳き (seine fishing), 地引き網 (dragnet), 地引き (seine fishing), 曳網 (dragnet), 曳き網 (dragnet), 引き網 (dragnet). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひきあみ (dragnet), じびきあみ (dragnet), じびき (dictionary, seine fishing). (various references) | |
Korean | 예인망. (various references) | |
Manx | seine. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | einesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rede varredoura, rede de cercar (encircling net, seine fishing net, surrounding net), rede de arrasto (trail-net, trawl). (various references) | |
Romanian | nãvod (drag-net, fishing net, mesh, netful, network, trammel, trawl). (various references) | |
Russian | сеть (chain, mesh-work, net, netting, network), сена;невод, невод (sweep net). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sena, mreža (chain, mesh, meshes, net, netting, network, reticle, reticulation, reticule, screen, trammel, web), alov (dragnet, drag-net, net, sweep net). (various references) | |
Spanish | jabega (seine fishing net), jábega (trawl). (various references) | |
Swedish | vad (appeal, bet, calf, Ford, hey, how, that, wager, what), not (annotation, footnote, memorandum, note), fiska med not. (various references) | |
Thai | อวน, จับปลาด้วยอวน. (various references) | |
Turkish | sen nehri, iğrip ağı (seine net), büyük ağ (seine net). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | невід (sweep net, trammel). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tổ đánh cá bằng lưới kéo (seine-gang), kim đan lưới kéo (seine-needle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | allal. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | sagene. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sagena, sagenae, sagenam, sagenarum, sagenas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Seine": seined, seiner, seiners, seines. (additional references) | |
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"Seine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beinee, Ceinwen, deine, eine, Einem, Einen, esane, esediye, Esene, esin, esne, neine, saine, sainu, samine, sasine, sayen, sayne, seane, seanew, searne, seen'em, Seeney, sehne, seice, seide, Seidner, seige, Seigne, seije, seike, seiken, sein, seina, seinem, seinet, seinna, seite, seive, sekne, selin, selina, Selnec, semien, Semino, sene, Seneb, Senex, seni, senia, senice, senir, Senise, sepina, serne, sesne, Sevigne, seyde, seyn, Seznec, Sgine, shekinah, siece, sieje, sieke, sien, siena, siene, Sienne, siense, sinqe, Siyane, skine, sline, smine, soane, sonie, spewine, stine, sutine, svine, weine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Seine" (pronounced sā"nē) |
| 3 | -ā" n ē | brainy, grainy, rainy, zany. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-s" | |
-1 letter: seen, sene, sine. | |
-2 letters: ens, ins, nee, see, sei, sen, sin. | |
-3 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-s" | |
+1 letter: denies, dienes, enisle, ensile, envies, eosine, exines, genies, nereis, newies, newsie, nieces, nieves, seeing, seined, seiner, seines, senile, serein, serine, signee. | |
+2 letters: aniseed, beanies, bennies, defines, deniers, destine, deveins, ebonies, ebonise, eikones, eiswein, emetins, endites, endives, endwise, enemies, engines, enisled, enisles, ensiled, ensiles, enskied, enskies, entices, entires, entries, enviers, eosines, equines, erepsin, ermines, eserine, etesian, evinces, felines, finesse, genesis, genoise, greisen, heinies, henries, immense, incense, indenes, indexes, inheres, intense, inverse, jennies, kineses, license, liernes, linseed, lisente, meanies, meinies, nellies, nemesis, nereids, newbies, newsier, newsies, oleines, penises, pennies, pensile, pensive, peonies, pepsine, pinenes, refines, relines, repines, rerisen, reshine, resined, retines, science, seeding, seeings, seeking, seeling, seeming, seeping, seiners, selenic, senecio, seniles, sereins, serines, sestine, setline, sheenie, sidemen, siemens, sienite, signees, silence, sincere, sinewed, sixteen, skeeing, skeined, soignee, syenite, tennies, tensile, tensive, theines, trienes, veiners, venines, venires, versine, vespine, weenies, weiners, wieners, wienies, yeelins. | |
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