seine
noun
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
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seine
1 American
[seyn]
/ seɪn /
noun
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seines
plural
verb (used with object)
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seines,
present (3rd person singular)
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seined,
past participle, past
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seining
present participle
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to fish for or catch with a seine.
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to use a seine in (water).
verb (used without object)
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seines,
present (3rd person singular)
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seined,
past participle, past
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seining
present participle
Seine
2
American
[seyn, sen]
/ seɪn, sɛn /
noun
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a river in France, flowing NW through Paris to the English Channel. 480 miles (773 km) long.
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a former department in N France.
seine
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British
/ seɪn /
noun
verb
Seine
2
British
/ seɪn, sɛn /
noun
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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seinesimple
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seinessimple
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have seinedperfect
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has seinedperfect
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am seiningprogressive
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are seiningprogressive
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is seiningprogressive
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have been seiningperfect progressive
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has been seiningperfect progressive
Past
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seinedsimple
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had seinedperfect
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was seiningprogressive
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were seiningprogressive
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had been seiningperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of seine
before 950; Middle English seyne, Old English segne < West Germanic *sagina < Latin sagēna < Greek sagḗnē fishing net
Vocabulary lists containing seine
Example Sentences
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Many birds drown in purse seine nets each year.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025
The fishing practices, including trawling and the use of gill and seine nets, were shown to cause physical pressures such as abrasion, smothering, siltation and total habitat loss.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
Using a seine, the Karuk Tribe fisheries team formed a circle and pulled up their catch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
The most common method used to catch oily fish is known as "seine" fishing, one of the most environmentally friendly fishing techniques in use today:
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024
In 1878 a commission was given to Messrs Buckland and Walpole to inquire into the alleged destruction of the spawn and fry of sea fish, especially by the use of the beam-trawl and ground seine.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
Two Canadair planes joined the battle on Monday, scooping up water from the River Seine to douse the flames.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Chip falls in with a troupe of street performers, evades the police, juggles along the Seine and eventually wanders into a smoky bar, where Penelope is strumming her guitar.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
They’re right here, in high summer, on Paris’ oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, where an enormous art installation, a trompe l’oeil inflatable snow-clad mountain range, has arisen over the river Seine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Days later, a metal trunk bound with a metal chain was discovered floating in the River Seine to the west of Paris.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
“Deligny was bad enough. Bain Royal, another latrine on the Seine, was worse. At least at Deligny they scooped out the dead fish.”
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Local communities believe that certain fishing practices, such as spearfishing with scuba gear and semi-industrial fishing with purse seines and night lights, are major contributors to the decline of fish stocks.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2024
Joining a flotilla of competing boats near Point Roberts, the Emancipator initiated a set and then began pulling in its seines.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Good carbon bargains tend to be seafood caught in midwater trawls and purse seines — nets that don't touch the bottom of the ocean.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2021
For three years researchers working in the Sound of Elsinore, Denmark, sampled fish with traps, seines, gillnets, push nets, fishing poles, bottom trawls, along with visual observations by snorkelers during the day and at night.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 3, 2015
“Oh, the river’s pretty,” he said, “but fishing’s hard work. You try hauling one of those seines up from the bottom sometime and you’ll find out.”
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
In the 1800s, when the pupfish swam throughout the valley, the Paiute peoples seined the fish for food.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
We seined under blue skies, taking in the squawking seabirds and miles of wild tidal beach.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 26, 2016
He seined such old tomes as Beale's Natural History of the Sperm Whale and Scoresby's Account of the Arctic Regions for obscure facts.
From Time Magazine Archive
From manufacturers and retailers Hubbard, promising heavy plugs on the air, seined some $560,000 in merchandise.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the waters of this river, since man was, have the Indians drawn and dipped and seined their sustenance—inconnu, jack-fish, grayling, white-fish, and loche.
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
Reef netting differs from other fishing methods – gillnetting, beach seining and purse seining — in that the boats and net are stationary; they’re tethered to the sea bottom with minimal anchors.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
These artisanal techniques are far less harmful than trawling, purse seining or driftnets – and than the reckless sport-fishing boats speeding at 10 knots, trailing long lines.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 13, 2020
A bill stalled in the State Legislature would prohibit purse seining of menhaden in New York.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2018
Bluefin tuna are harvested on both sides of the Atlantic, using primarily harpoon and rod-and-reel in the west and seining nets and longline fishing in the east.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 29, 2018
Men and boys were fishing from the docks, and sometimes we could see people out in boats seining.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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