Spindle vs. Spool — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Spindle and Spool
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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.
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Spool
A cylinder of wood, plastic, cardboard, or other material on which wire, thread, or string is wound.
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Spindle
A rod or pin serving as an axis that revolves or on which something revolves.
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Spool
The amount of wire, thread, or string wound on such a cylinder.
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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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Spool
Something similar to such a cylinder in shape or function.
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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.
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Spool
A reel for magnetic tape.
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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.
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Spool
To wind or be wound on or off a spool.
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Spindle
A similar rod or pin used for spinning on a spinning wheel.
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Spool
To store (data sent to a printer) in a buffer, allowing the program that sent the data to the printer to resume its normal operation.
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Spindle
A pin or rod holding a bobbin or spool on which thread is wound on an automated spinning machine.
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Spool
A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
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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.
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Spool
(aviation) One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
The high-pressure spool rotates faster than the intermediate- and low-pressure spools, as the high-pressure turbine is driven by superheated combustion gases straight out of the burners, while the high-pressure compressor has to spin very fast to compress air that has already been compressed and heated by the low- and intermediate-pressure compressors.
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Spindle
A spike on which papers may be impaled.
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Spool
(computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
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Spindle
A baluster.
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Spool
A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
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Spindle
(Biology) A cytoplasmic network composed of microtubules along which the chromosomes are distributed during mitosis and meiosis.
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Spool
To wind on a spool or spools.
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Spindle
(Anatomy) See muscle spindle.
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Spool
(computing) To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time).
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Spindle
Coastal New Jersey See dragonfly.
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Spool
A piece of cane or reed with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.
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Spindle
To furnish or equip with a spindle or spindles.
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Spool
To wind on a spool or spools.
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Spindle
To impale or perforate on a spindle
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Spool
A winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
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Spindle
To grow into a thin, elongated, or weak form.
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Spool
Transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage
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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.
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Spool
Wind onto a spool or a reel
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Spindle
A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
The spindle of a vane
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Spindle
A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
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Spindle
Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
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Spindle
An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
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Spindle
The fusee of a watch.
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Spindle
A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
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Spindle
A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
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Spindle
(geometry) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
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Spindle
Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.
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Spindle
Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
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Spindle
(biology) A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis
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Spindle
(coastal New Jersey) a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.
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Spindle
(computing) A plastic container for packaging optical discs. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package.
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Spindle
A muscle spindle.
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Spindle
(transitive) To make into a long tapered shape.
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Spindle
(intransitive) To take on a long tapered shape.
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Spindle
(transitive) To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
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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.
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Spindle
A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
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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.
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Spindle
The fusee of a watch.
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Spindle
The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
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Spindle
A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
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Spindle
A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
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Spindle
A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
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Spindle
A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
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Spindle
Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; - called also spindle stromb.
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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.
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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
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Spindle
Any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
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Spindle
A stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning
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