spindle

名词 n. 动词 v.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rod used for spinning and then winding 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.
    — Anna Pavlovna’s soirée was now in full swing. On all sides the spindles were humming away non-stop.
  2. A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
    — the spindle of a vane
  3. A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
  4. The axle of a bottom bracket.
    — Check ball bearings for pitting, cracks, disorderly conduct; cups and cones for uneven wear; spindle for straightness.
  5. Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
  6. An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
    — check spindle
  7. The fusee of a watch.
  8. Any long and slender stalk resembling a spindle from Euonymus.
  9. A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
  10. A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
  11. Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.
  12. Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
  13. A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis.
  14. A dragonfly.
  15. A plastic container for packaging optical discs such as CDs or DVDs, having a central column that passes through the central holes in the discs and keeps them in a stack.
  16. A muscle spindle.
  17. A sleep spindle.
    — One of the fascinating characteristics of sleep spindles is that they are generated by the thalamic reticular nucleus, and do not occur in the presence of NE. In fact, LC neurons fall silent in the second preceding each spindle […]
动词 v.
  1. To make into a long tapered shape. transitive
  2. To take on a long tapered shape. intransitive
  3. To impale on a device for holding paper documents. transitive
    — Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.

词形变化

spindles plural spindel alternative,obsolete spinnel alternative,dialectal spindles present,singular,third-person spindling participle,present spindled participle,past spindled past spindel alternative,obsolete spinnel alternative,dialectal

词汇关系

衍生词
antispindle central spindle hemispindle Japanese spindle minispindle mitotic spindle multispindle perispindle sleep spindle spindle cell spindle diagram spindleful spindlehorn spindle-legged spindlelegs spindlelike spindlemaker spindlemaking spindle neuron spindle poison spindle-shanked spindleshanks spindle-shaped spindletail spindle toxin spindlewise spindlework spindleworm spindly
相关词
fusiform

词源

词源 1
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”).
The dragonfly sense (noun sense 14) is a calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle); this word was introduced by New Sweden settlers.
词源 2
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”).
The dragonfly sense (noun sense 14) is a calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle); this word was introduced by New Sweden settlers.
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