spindle
锭子,纺锤,锭,纺锤体
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- : a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- : the rod on a spinning wheel by which the thread is twisted and on which it is wound.
- : one of the rods of a spinning machine that bear the bobbins on which the spun thread is wound.
- : any rod or pin suggestive of a spindle used in spinning, as one that turns around or on which something turns; an axle, axis, or shaft.
- : a vertical shaft that serves to center a phonograph record on a turntable.
- : either of two shafts or arbors that support the work on a lathe, one on the headstock, rotating with and imparting motion to the work, the other on the tailstock, motionless.
- : a small axis, arbor, or mandrel.
- : an iron rod or the like, usually with a ball or cage at the top, fixed to a rock, sunken reef, etc., to serve as a guide in navigation.
- : a measure of yarn, containing, for cotton, 15,120 yards, and for linen, 14,400 yards.
- : a hydrometer.
- : Cell Biology. a spindle-shaped structure, composed of microtubules, that forms near the cell nucleus during mitosis or meiosis and, as it divides, draws the chromosomes to opposite poles of the cell.
- : a short, turned or circular ornament, as in a baluster or stair rail.
- : spindle file.
- : Eastern New England. a tassel on an ear of corn.
- : Chiefly New Jersey and Delaware Valley. dragonfly.
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- : spindle side.
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spin·dled, spin·dling.
- : to give the form of a spindle to.
- : to provide or equip with a spindle or spindles.
- : to impale on a spindle, as for sorting purposes.
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spin·dled, spin·dling.
- : to shoot up, or grow, into a long, slender stalk or stem, as a plant.
- : to grow tall and slender, often disproportionately so.
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Around that time, the muscle’s golgi tendon organs—spindles of neurons that sit on the muscle fibers—kick in and inhibit muscle contractions, allowing your muscles to relax and lengthening the stretching you can do.
Muscles contain special sensory receptor cells called muscle spindles.
The author, an art curator and educator who has developed curriculums on animals, speculates that hippo empathy may derive from their brains being well-stocked with spindle neurons, which are associated in many species with social emotions.
Hyman became interested in understanding the formation of mitotic spindles during his graduate studies in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge in the 1980s.
Along the way, a succession of other rapacious characters flock to the Spindle Gallery.
At the center of the action—and the guessing game of who inspired each character—is über-dealer Art Spindle (Danny Huston).
No sooner had she picked up the spindle, than she pricked her hand with it, and fell swooning.
Behind the bride were carried the distaff and spindle, emblems of domestic life.
A very convenient method of keeping shipping tags at hand is to slip them on a desk spindle.
In the thick shade of a fig-tree, by a running spring, sat a blind woman unrolling the last gold and silver thread from a spindle.
He lifted a spindle-legged table in the air and went on talking.