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    A spindle is a long, thin rod, traditionally used for spinning thread by twisting fibers like wool or cotton into yarn, often with a spinning wheel. More generally, any long, thin rod that something turns or spins around can be called a spindle — you'll find them in locks, machine tools called , old computer disk drives, and even the thin upright posts on a staircase .

    （紡紗）紡錘；（機械）轉軸、心軸；（欄杆）欄杆柱

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組成Built from spin + an old tool-making ending, similar to how needle and handle are formed.

同家族的字

  • spinspindle is built from spin + an old tool-forming ending
  • spindlyspindly, describing something thin and weak-looking, is the adjective built from spindle

原始詞典資料21 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Spindlename

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    A surname transferred from the nickname.

spindlenoun/ˈspɪndəl/

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    hobbieslifestylespinningA 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.
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    A rod which turns, or on which something turns.

    • the spindle of a vane
    • ; the top one is acted on by the spindle and disc d, moved by the lever e;
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    A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.

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    cyclinghobbieslifestyleThe axle of a bottom bracket.

    • Check ball bearings for pitting, cracks, disorderly conduct; cups and cones for uneven wear; spindle for straightness.
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    Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.

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    An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.

    • check spindle
    • receipt spindle
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    The fusee of a watch.

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    Any long and slender stalk resembling a spindle from Euonymus.

另外 9 個記錄的用法
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    A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.

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    geometrymathematicssciencesA solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

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    Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.

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    Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.

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    biologynatural-sciencesA cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis.

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    A dragonfly.

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    computingengineeringmathematicsA 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.

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    A muscle spindle.

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    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 […]

spindleverb/ˈspɪndəl/

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    To make into a long tapered shape.

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    To take on a long tapered shape.

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    To impale on a device for holding paper documents.

    • Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。