Spindle
['spɪnd(ə)l] or ['spɪndl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning.
(noun.) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts.
(noun.) a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc..
(noun.) (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle; 'chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis'.
校對:韦恩--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
(n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
(n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.
(n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
(n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
(n.) The fusee of a watch.
(n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
(n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
(n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
(n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
(n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
(v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. (Mech.) Axis, shaft, arbor.
手打:特雷弗
解釋/意思:
n. the pin from which the thread is twisted: a pin on which anything turns: the fusee of a watch: anything very slender.—v.i. to grow long and slender.—adjs. Spin′dle-legged -shanked having long slender legs like spindles.—ns.pl. Spin′dle-legs -shanks long slim legs—hence an over-long and slender person.—adj. Spin′dle-shaped shaped like a spindle: thickest in the middle and tapering to both ends.—ns. Spin′dle-shell a spindle-shaped shell; Spin′dle-tree a shrub whose hard-grained wood was formerly used for making musical instruments and for spindles and is now for skewers &c.; Spin′dling a person or thing too long and slender: a slender shoot.—adj. long and slender.—adj. Spin′dly disproportionally long and slender.
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例句/造句/用法:
- From these ends is extended the spindle of Necessity, on which all the revolutions turn. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- But, so it has been suggested, there was one man who stopped short when he lost his spindle, for a red-hot idea shot suddenly through his brain. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Prior to 1878 the speed of the average spindle was limited to 5,000 revolutions a minute. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In spinning fine numbers of yarn, a workman in a self-acting mule will do the work of 3,000 hand-spinners with the distaff and spindle. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Suppose that while one were bearing on pretty hard with a well-tightened string, in order to bring fire quickly, the point of the spindle should slip from its block. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The thread passes through the hoop as it is wound upon the spindle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Birkenhead Yielding Spinning Spindle Bearing. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The bolster is an upright sleeve bearing, in which the spindle revolves, and against which is sustained the pull of the band that drives the spindle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Considering the great speed of the modern spindle and the fact that a single workman attends a thousand or more of them, the record of progress in this art becomes impressive. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The shaft and hook of this spindle are made of steel, and the whorl is made partly of steel and also partly of other materials. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- This machine had eight or ten spindles driven by cords or belts from the same wheel, and operated by hand or foot. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- When the proper fineness had been obtained in this way, the cotton, as it passed from the second pair of rollers, was twisted into a firm strong thread by spindles attached to the frame. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- For this purpose the spindles were set upright at the end of the frame, and the rovings or strips of untwisted fibre were carried on bobbins on the inclined frame. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In 1805 there were only 4,500 cotton spindles at work in the United States. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The rovings at one end were attached to the spindles and their opposite portions held together and drawn out by a clasp held in the hand. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The instrument used in spinning was a large wheel, turned by hand, and setting in motion a set of whirls or revolving spindles, which twisted the hemp by their motion. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Within twenty years after the introduction of Arkwright's machines in the United States there were a hundred mills there with a hundred thousand spindles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- When the thread yarn was drawn out sufficiently it was wound upon the spindles by a reverse movement of the wheel. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In this the spindles, arranged vertically in the frame, are driven by bands from a central cylinder, and project through apertures in a horizontal bar. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The spindles were mounted on a wheeled carriage that traveled back and forth a considerable distance from the drawing rolls, which were mounted in bearings in a stationary frame. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
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