Spindle meaning
The definition of a spindle is a thin rod used for spinning, or a yarn measurement.
An example of a spindle is what sewing thread is spun around.
An example of a spindle is 15,120 yards of cotton yarn.
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Any of various mechanical parts that revolve or serve as axes for larger revolving parts, as in a lock, axle, phonograph turntable, or lathe.
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Any of various long thin stationary rods, as:
- A spike on which papers may be impaled.
- A baluster.
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A cytoplasmic network composed of microtubules along which the chromosomes are distributed during mitosis and meiosis.
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To furnish or equip with a spindle or spindles.
verb
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To impale or perforate on a spindle.
Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate this card.
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To grow into a thin, elongated, or weak form.
verb
A slender rod or pin used in spinning.
- In hand spinning, a rounded rod, usually wooden, tapering toward each end, for twisting into thread the fibers pulled from the material on the distaff, and notched at one end so as to hold the thread.
- On a spinning wheel, the rod by which the thread is twisted and on which it is then wound.
- In a spinning machine, any of the rods holding the bobbins on which the spun thread is wound.
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A measure for yarn, equal to 14,400 yards in linen or 15,120 yards in cotton.
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A short turned piece or decorative rod, as a baluster or element in some chair backs.
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Any rod, pin, or shaft that revolves or serves as an axis for a revolving part, as an axle, arbor, or mandrel.
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In a lathe, a shaftlike part (live spindle) that rotates while holding the thing to be turned, or a similar part (dead spindle) that does not rotate.
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A metal spike on a base, on which papers are impaled for temporary filing.
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The spindle-shaped bundle of nuclear fibers formed during one stage of mitosis.
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The small, square shaft passing through a door lock, to which the doorknobs are attached.
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Of or like a spindle or spindles.
adjective
To grow in a long, slender shape.
verb
To grow into a long, slender stalk or stem.
verb
To form into a spindle.
verb
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To fit or equip with a spindle.
verb
A cytoplasmic network composed of microtubules along which the chromosomes are distributed during mitosis and meiosis.
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A network of protein fibers that forms in the cytoplasm of a cell during cell division. The spindle grows forth from the centrosomes and attaches to the chromosomes after the latter have been duplicated, and the nuclear membrane dissolves. Once attached, the spindle fibers contract, pulling the duplicate chromosomes apart to opposite poles of the dividing cell.
The rotating shaft in a disk drive. In a regular "fixed disk drive," the recording platters are attached to the spindle. In a removable disk cartridge, the spindle remains within the drive. Laptops use spindle designations to indicate the number of built-in drives. For example, a two-spindle machine contains a hard drive and a second bay for an optical drive. Sometimes the term is used merely as a synonym for disk drive; for example, "adding more spindles will alleviate the congestion."
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A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
The spindle of a vane.
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A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
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A worldwide tree of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
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(geometry) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
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To make into a long tapered shape.
verb
To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.
verb
Origin of spindle
- Middle English spindel alteration of Old English spinel (s)pen- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English spindle, spyndel, spyndylle, from Old English spindle, spindel, alteration of earlier spinel, spinil, spinl (“spindle"), from Proto-Germanic *spinnilÅ (“spindle"), equivalent to spin +"Ž -le. Cognate with Scots spindil, spinnell (“spindle"), Dutch spil ("spindle"; < Middle Dutch spille, spinle), German Spindel (“spindle"), Danish spindel (“spindle"), Swedish spindel (“spindle").
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