Pin vs. Spindle

Pinnoun

A sewing pin or ballhead pin: a needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.

Spindlenoun

(spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding natural 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.

Pinnoun

A small nail with a head and a sharp point.

Spindlenoun

A rod which turns, or on which something turns.

‘the spindle of a vane’;

Pinnoun

A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.

‘Pull the pin out of the grenade before throwing it at the enemy.’;

Spindlenoun

A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.

Pinnoun

(wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.

Spindlenoun

Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.

Pinnoun

A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.

Spindlenoun

An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.

Pinnoun

(in plural pins; informal) A leg.

‘I'm not so good on my pins these days.’;

Spindlenoun

The fusee of a watch.

Pinnoun

(electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.

‘The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins.’;

Spindlenoun

A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

Pinnoun

A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.

Spindlenoun

A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.

Pinnoun

(US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.

Spindlenoun

(geometry) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

Pinnoun

(chess) A scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to attack.

Spindlenoun

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

Pinnoun

(golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole

Spindlenoun

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

Pinnoun

(curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)

‘The shot landed right on the pin.’;

Spindlenoun

(biology) A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis

Pinnoun

(dated) A mood, a state of being.

Spindlenoun

(coastal New Jersey) a dragonfly

Pinnoun

One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.

Spindleverb

(transitive) To make into a long tapered shape.

Pinnoun

caligo

Spindleverb

(intransitive) To take on a long tapered shape.

Pinnoun

A thing of small value; a trifle.

Spindleverb

(transitive) To impale on a device for holding paper documents.

‘Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.’;

Pinnoun

A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.

Spindlenoun

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.

Pinnoun

(engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.

Spindlenoun

A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.

Pinnoun

The tenon of a dovetail joint.

Spindlenoun

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.

Pinnoun

A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.

Spindlenoun

The fusee of a watch.

Pinnoun

(informal) A pinball machine.

‘I spent most of my time in the arcade playing pins.’;

Spindlenoun

The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.

Pinverb

(often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.

Spindlenoun

A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

Pinverb

To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.

Spindlenoun

A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.

Pinverb

(wrestling) To pin down (someone).

Spindlenoun

A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.

Pinverb

To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.

Spindlenoun

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

Pinverb

To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item.

‘to pin a window to the Taskbar’;

Spindlenoun

Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; - called also spindle stromb.

Pinverb

To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.

‘When marshaling data, the interop marshaler can copy or pin the data being marshaled.’;

Spindleverb

To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.

‘It has begun to spindle into overintellectuality.’;

Pinverb

alternative form of peen

Spindlenoun

(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’;

Pinverb

To peen.

Spindlenoun

any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts

Pinverb

To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.

Spindlenoun

a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning

Pinverb

To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.

Spindlenoun

a slender rounded rod with tapered ends used in hand spinning to twist and wind thread from a mass of wool or flax held on a distaff.

Pinnoun

A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.

‘With pins of adamantAnd chains they made all fast.’;

Spindlenoun

a pin or rod used on a spinning wheel to twist and wind the thread.

Pinnoun

Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.

Spindlenoun

a pin bearing the bobbin of a spinning machine.

Pinnoun

Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.

‘He . . . did not care a pin for her.’;

Spindlenoun

a measure of length for yarn, equal to 15,120 yards (13,826 metres) for cotton or 14,400 yards (13,167 metres) for linen.

Pinnoun

That which resembles a pin in its form or use

Spindlenoun

a turned piece of wood used as a banister or chair leg.

Pinnoun

One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.

Spindlenoun

a pointed metal rod on a base, used for filing paper items.

Pinnoun

The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.

Spindlenoun

a rod or pin serving as an axis that revolves or on which something revolves.

Pinnoun

Mood; humor.

Spindlenoun

the vertical rod at the centre of a record turntable which keeps the record in place during play.

Pinnoun

Caligo. See Caligo.

Spindlenoun

a slender mass of microtubules formed when a cell divides. At metaphase the chromosomes become attached to it by their centromeres before being pulled towards its ends.

Pinnoun

An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.

Spindlenoun

a Eurasian shrub or small tree with slender toothed leaves and pink capsules containing bright orange seeds. Its hard timber was formerly used for making spindles.

Pinnoun

The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.

Pinnoun

a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment

Pinnoun

when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat

Pinnoun

small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.

Pinnoun

a number you choose and use to gain access to various accounts

Pinnoun

informal terms of the leg;

‘fever left him weak on his sticks’;

Pinnoun

axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns

Pinnoun

cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown

Pinnoun

flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green

Pinnoun

a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things

Pinnoun

a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing

Pinnoun

a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in groups as a target

Pinverb

to hold fast or prevent from moving;

‘The child was pinned under the fallen tree’;

Pinverb

attach or fasten with pins

Pinverb

pierce with a pin;

‘pin down the butterfly’;

Pinverb

immobilize a piece

Pinnoun

an identifying number allocated to an individual by a bank or other organization and used for validating electronic transactions.

Pinverb

attach or fasten with a pin or pins

‘her hair was pinned back’; ‘he pinned the badge on to his lapel’;

Pinverb

hold (someone) firmly in a specified position so they are unable to move

‘Richards pinned him down until the police arrived’; ‘she was standing pinned against the door’;

Pinverb

hinder or prevent (a piece or pawn) from moving because of the danger to a more valuable piece standing behind it along the line of an attack

‘the black rook on e4 is pinned’;

Pin

A pin is a device used for fastening objects or material together, and can have three sorts of body: a shaft of a rigid inflexible material meant to be inserted in a slot, groove, or hole (as with pivots, hinges, and jigs); a shaft connected to a head and ending in a sharp tip meant to pierce one or more pieces of soft materials like cloth or paper (the straight or push pin); a single strip of a rigid but flexible material (e.g. a wire) whose length has been folded into parallel prongs in such fashion that the middle length of each curves towards the other so that, when anything is inserted between them, they act as a clamp (e.g.