Pin vs. Spindle — What's the Difference?

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.

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.

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

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

Attach or fasten with a pin or pins

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.

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

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.

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

A rod or pin, tapered at one end and usually weighted at the other, on which fibers are spun by hand into thread and then wound.

A short, straight, stiff piece of wire with a blunt head and a sharp point, used especially for fastening.

A similar rod or pin used for spinning on a spinning wheel.

Something, such as a safety pin, that resembles such a piece of wire in shape or use.

A pin or rod holding a bobbin or spool on which thread is wound on an automated spinning machine.

A whit; a jot

Any of various mechanical parts that revolve or serve as axes for larger revolving parts, as in a lock, axle, phonograph turntable, or lathe.

A thin rod for securing the ends of fractured bones.

A spike on which papers may be impaled.

A peg for fixing the crown to the root of a tooth.

A baluster.

A cotter pin.

(Biology) A cytoplasmic network composed of microtubules along which the chromosomes are distributed during mitosis and meiosis.

The part of a key stem entering a lock.

(Anatomy) See muscle spindle.

(Music) One of the pegs securing the strings and regulating their tension on a stringed instrument.

Coastal New Jersey See dragonfly.

(Nautical) A belaying pin.

To furnish or equip with a spindle or spindles.

(Nautical) A thole pin.

To impale or perforate on a spindle

An ornament fastened to clothing by means of a clasp.

To grow into a thin, elongated, or weak form.

A rolling pin.

(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.

One of the wooden clubs at which the ball is aimed in bowling.

A rod which turns, or on which something turns.

A flagstick.

A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.

See fall.

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

Pins(Informal) The legs

An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.

(Electronics) A lead on a device that plugs into a socket to connect the device to a system.

The fusee of a watch.

Any of the pegs on the platen of a printer, which engage holes at the edges of paper.

A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

Any of the styluses that form a dot matrix on a printer.

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

Any of the small metal prongs at the end of a connector that fit into the holes in a port.

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

To fasten or secure with or as if with a pin or pins.

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

To transfix.

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

To place in a position of trusting dependence

(biology) A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis

To hold fast; immobilize

(coastal New Jersey) a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.

(Sports) To win a fall from in wrestling.

(computing) A plastic container for packaging optical discs. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package.

To give (a woman) a fraternity pin in token of attachment.

A muscle spindle.

Having a grain suggestive of the heads of pins. Used of leather.

(transitive) To make into a long tapered shape.

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.

(intransitive) To take on a long tapered shape.

A small nail with a head and a sharp point.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

A leg.

The fusee of a watch.

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

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

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

A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

(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.

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

(chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.

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

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

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

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

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

(archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.

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

(obsolete) A mood, a state of being.

(biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle;

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

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

Caligo.

A stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning

A thing of small value; a trifle.

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

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

The tenon of a dovetail joint.

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

(informal) A pinball machine.

(locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.

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

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

(wrestling) To pin down (someone).

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

To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.

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

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(transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.

To peen.

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

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

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.

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

Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.

That which resembles a pin in its form or use

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

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

Mood; humor.

Caligo. See Caligo.

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

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

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

When a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat

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

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

Informal terms of the leg;

Axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns

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

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

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

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

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

To hold fast or prevent from moving;

Attach or fasten with pins

Pierce with a pin;

Immobilize a piece