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yarn

[yahrn]

noun

  1. thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.

  2. a continuous strand or thread made from glass, metal, plastic, etc.

  3. the thread, in the form of a loosely twisted aggregate of fibers, as of hemp, of which rope is made rope yarn.

  4. a tale, especially a long story of adventure or incredible happenings.

    He spun a yarn that outdid any I had ever heard.



verb (used without object)

  1. Informal.to spin a yarn; tell stories.

yarn

/ ɑː /

noun

  1. a continuous twisted strand of natural or synthetic fibres, used in weaving, knitting, etc

  2. informala long and often involved story or account, usually telling of incredible or fantastic events

  3. informal

    1. to tell such a story

    2. to make up or relate a series of excuses

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (intr) to tell such a story or stories

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of yarn1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English gearn; cognate with German Garn; akin to Old Norse ǫ gut, Greek ǰḗ intestine, chord 1, Lithuanian žà entrails, Latin hernia a rupture, Sanskrit 󾱰 vein
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of yarn1

Old English gearn; related to Old High German garn yarn, Old Norse ö gut, Greek ǰŧ string, gut
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Paradoxically, that way of thinking belongs specifically to storytellers like King, who make up whole yarns about anonymous humans on the street.

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“I wish the world could see our ‘CSI’ outline — literally, like a yarn — trying to figure it out,” Thompson says.

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Here’s a ripped-from-the-headlines yarn about what happened when a big law firm used an AI bot product developed by Anthropic, its client, to help write an expert’s testimony defending the client.

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The viscose yarn – a popular material that goes into making woven garments – he produces, now sits in storage, as orders from local factories have dropped nearly 40% in the last month.

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At a distance of two centuries, it has become a ripping yarn, the true story clouded in legend.

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