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spindle
English
Alternative forms
- spindel (obsolete)
- spinnel (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English spyndel, spindle, spyndylle, from Old English spindle, spindel, alteration of earlier spinel, spinil, spinl (“spindle”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinnilu (“spindle”), equivalent to spin +? -le. Cognate with Scots spindil, spinnell (“spindle”), Dutch spindel ("spindle"; < Middle Dutch spille, spinle), German Spindel (“spindle”), Danish spindel (“spindle”), Swedish spindel (“spindle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp?nd?l/
- Hyphenation: spin?dle
- Rhymes: -?nd?l
Noun
spindle (plural spindles)
- (spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding natural fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.
- A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
- the spindle of a vane
- A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
- Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
- An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
- The fusee of a watch.
- A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
- A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
- (geometry) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
- Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.
- Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
- (biology) A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis
- (coastal New Jersey) a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.
- (computing) A plastic container for packaging optical discs. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package.
Synonyms
- (a tree from the Euonymus genus): spindle tree
Hypernyms
- (a tree from the Euonymus genus): euonymus
Derived terms
- hemispindle
- sleep spindle
- spindle poison
- spindle toxin
Translations
Verb
spindle (third-person singular simple present spindles, present participle spindling, simple past and past participle spindled)
- (transitive) To make into a long tapered shape.
- (intransitive) To take on a long tapered shape.
- (transitive) To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
- Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.
Translations
Further reading
- Spindle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Spindle (textiles) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- spindle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- spindel, splined
Middle English
Noun
spindle
- Alternative form of spyndel
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microtubules
English
Noun
microtubules
- plural of microtubule
microtubules From the web:
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