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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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