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Spindle vs. Axle — What's the Difference?

Spindle vs. Axle — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Spindle and Axle

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Spindle

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.

Axle

An axle or axletree is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear. On wheeled vehicles, the axle may be fixed to the wheels, rotating with them, or fixed to the vehicle, with the wheels rotating around the axle.

Spindle

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

Axle

A supporting shaft or member on or with which a wheel or a set of wheels revolves.

Spindle

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.
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Axle

The spindle of an axletree.

Spindle

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.

Axle

Either end of an axletree.

Spindle

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.

Axle

(obsolete) Shoulder.

Spindle

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

Axle

The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.

Spindle

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

Axle

A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

Spindle

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

Axle

An axis.
The Sun's axle

Spindle

A spike on which papers may be impaled.

Axle

The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.

Spindle

A baluster.

Axle

A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

Spindle

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

Axle

An axis; as, the sun's axle.
Had from her axle tornThe steadfast earth.

Spindle

(Anatomy) See muscle spindle.

Axle

A shaft on which a wheel rotates

Spindle

Coastal New Jersey See dragonfly.

Spindle

To furnish or equip with a spindle or spindles.

Spindle

To impale or perforate on a spindle
Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate this card.

Spindle

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

Spindle

(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.

Spindle

A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
The spindle of a vane

Spindle

A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.

Spindle

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

Spindle

An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.

Spindle

The fusee of a watch.

Spindle

A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

Spindle

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

Spindle

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

Spindle

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

Spindle

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

Spindle

(biology) A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis

Spindle

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

Spindle

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

Spindle

A muscle spindle.

Spindle

(transitive) To make into a long tapered shape.

Spindle

(intransitive) To take on a long tapered shape.

Spindle

(transitive) To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.

Spindle

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.

Spindle

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

Spindle

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.

Spindle

The fusee of a watch.

Spindle

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

Spindle

A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

Spindle

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

Spindle

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

Spindle

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

Spindle

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

Spindle

To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
It has begun to spindle into overintellectuality.

Spindle

(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

Spindle

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

Spindle

A stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning

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