Spindle
noun
A slim, round rod or pin used in weaving and spinning.
She twisted the wool around the spindle.
Often appears as...
- spindle of a spinning wheel
- wooden spindle
noun
A rod in a machine around which other parts move.
The wheels of the car are attached to the spindle.
Often appears as...
- wheel spindle
- machine spindle
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Technical
noun
In biology, a structure made of microtubules present during cell division.
Chromosomes move along the spindle during cell division.
Often appears as...
- mitotic spindle
- spindle fibers
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Academic
noun
A tall, thin and upright item typically found in an architectural context.
The staircase had a decorative spindle design.
Often appears as...
- spindle-style balusters
- wooden spindle
noun
Part of a computer hard drive where data is stored.
The hard drive has multiple spindles to store and retrieve data.
Often appears as...
- disk spindle
- spindle speed
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Technical
noun
A slim, round rod or pin used in weaving and spinning.
She twisted the wool around the spindle.
Often appears as...
- spindle of a spinning wheel
- wooden spindle
noun
A rod in a machine around which other parts move.
The wheels of the car are attached to the spindle.
Often appears as...
- wheel spindle
- machine spindle
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In biology, a structure made of microtubules present during cell division.
Chromosomes move along the spindle during cell division.
Often appears as...
- mitotic spindle
- spindle fibers
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A tall, thin and upright item typically found in an architectural context.
The staircase had a decorative spindle design.
Often appears as...
- spindle-style balusters
- wooden spindle
noun
Part of a computer hard drive where data is stored.
The hard drive has multiple spindles to store and retrieve data.
Often appears as...
- disk spindle
- spindle speed
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Weaving Instrument
A spindle is a tool essential in traditional fabric making, used to twist fibers into yarn.
Grandma uses an old spindle to spin sheep's wool into yarn.
Pro Tip 2/2Symbol of Stories
In fairy tales, a spindle often has magical connotations, like in 'Sleeping Beauty'.
The princess pricked her finger on a cursed spindle and fell into a deep sleep.
Pro Tip 1/2Weaving Instrument
A spindle is a tool essential in traditional fabric making, used to twist fibers into yarn.
Grandma uses an old spindle to spin sheep's wool into yarn.
Pro Tip 2/2Symbol of Stories
In fairy tales, a spindle often has magical connotations, like in 'Sleeping Beauty'.
The princess pricked her finger on a cursed spindle and fell into a deep sleep.
Pro Tip 1/2Weaving Instrument
A spindle is a tool essential in traditional fabric making, used to twist fibers into yarn.
Grandma uses an old spindle to spin sheep's wool into yarn.
Pro Tip 2/2Symbol of Stories
In fairy tales, a spindle often has magical connotations, like in 'Sleeping Beauty'.
The princess pricked her finger on a cursed spindle and fell into a deep sleep.
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Wade Davis: The...
we had to be cleansed at the portal of the Earth. And it was extraordinary to be taken by a priest. And you see that the priest never wears shoes because holy feet -- there must be nothing between the feet and the Earth for a mamo. And this is actually the place where the Great Mother sent the spindle into the world that elevated the mountains and created the homeland
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David Gruber: Can we...
encouraging the global community to come along on this journey for understanding. These animals could be the most intelligent beings on this planet. They have a neocortex and spindle cells -- structure that in humans control our higher thoughts, emotions, memory, language and love.
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How to Make a Friction...
a nest I like to start out with the my longer fibers I'll just twist those around to form a little bit of a pocket with the tinder nest you want everything pretty tight so at the spindle and hearth you want something fairly light but most important it's the grain structure if
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Safari Live - Day 288 PIPE...
or somewhere here and we'll be able to find them at some point scenic no no fish eagles that I can see was scouting about but they don't see any fish eagles at all what I can see is a spoonful that is sitting looks like a spindle has a
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How to Move Like a...
limbs in space it comes from inputs throughout the nervous system data is collected by tiny internal receptors called proprioceptive located in the muscle spindles tendons and joints they keep up a continuous flow of information
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Sleep is your superpower...
what we've discovered is that there are big, powerful brainwaves that happen during the very deepest stages of sleep that have riding on top of them these spectacular bursts of electrical activity that we call sleep spindles.
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How long should your...
During Stage 3, multiple brain areas work together to transfer information from short-term memory storage to long-term storage, stabilizing and strengthening long-term memory by coupling sleep spindles with slow waves.
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Mammoths resurrected and...
and the New Left was against technology because they thought it was a power device. Computers do not spindle, fold, or mutilate. Fight that. And so, the Whole Earth Catalog was kind of a counter-counterculture thing
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Bill Doyle: Treating...
And when that cellular space station is within the electric field, it acts on those highly charged proteins and aligns them. And it prevents them from forming those chains, those mitotic spindles,
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How to Build a Bow Drill...
putting facets on the spindle on the bottom edge and that's going to help create friction up here I've pointed it and I don't want any friction on this
Video examples
Wade Davis: The...
we had to be cleansed at the portal of the Earth. And it was extraordinary to be taken by a priest. And you see that the priest never wears shoes because holy feet -- there must be nothing between the feet and the Earth for a mamo. And this is actually the place where the Great Mother sent the spindle into the world that elevated the mountains and created the homeland
Video examples
David Gruber: Can we...
encouraging the global community to come along on this journey for understanding. These animals could be the most intelligent beings on this planet. They have a neocortex and spindle cells -- structure that in humans control our higher thoughts, emotions, memory, language and love.
Video examples
How to Make a Friction...
a nest I like to start out with the my longer fibers I'll just twist those around to form a little bit of a pocket with the tinder nest you want everything pretty tight so at the spindle and hearth you want something fairly light but most important it's the grain structure if
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 288 PIPE...
or somewhere here and we'll be able to find them at some point scenic no no fish eagles that I can see was scouting about but they don't see any fish eagles at all what I can see is a spoonful that is sitting looks like a spindle has a
Video examples
How to Move Like a...
limbs in space it comes from inputs throughout the nervous system data is collected by tiny internal receptors called proprioceptive located in the muscle spindles tendons and joints they keep up a continuous flow of information
Video examples
Sleep is your superpower...
what we've discovered is that there are big, powerful brainwaves that happen during the very deepest stages of sleep that have riding on top of them these spectacular bursts of electrical activity that we call sleep spindles.
Video examples
How long should your...
During Stage 3, multiple brain areas work together to transfer information from short-term memory storage to long-term storage, stabilizing and strengthening long-term memory by coupling sleep spindles with slow waves.
Video examples
Mammoths resurrected and...
and the New Left was against technology because they thought it was a power device. Computers do not spindle, fold, or mutilate. Fight that. And so, the Whole Earth Catalog was kind of a counter-counterculture thing
Video examples
Bill Doyle: Treating...
And when that cellular space station is within the electric field, it acts on those highly charged proteins and aligns them. And it prevents them from forming those chains, those mitotic spindles,
Video examples
How to Build a Bow Drill...
putting facets on the spindle on the bottom edge and that's going to help create friction up here I've pointed it and I don't want any friction on this
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Quote examples
Walter Benjamin
German Critic
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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Mary Harris Jones
American Activist
Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.
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George Herbert
British Poet
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
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Walter Benjamin
German Critic
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
Quote examples
Mary Harris Jones
American Activist
Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.
Quote examples
George Herbert
British Poet
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
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