(n.) A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.
(n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.
(n.) The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
(n.) A fine cord or narrow braid.
(n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last December, while the rest of my office was settling into its Christmas lunch, I was singing “Wind the Bobbin Up”.
(2) Then he got A Mystery Illness and has been bobbins, nicking the ball off Oscar’s feet and denying him a hat-trick against Swansea to make matters worse at the weekend.
(3) The Reuter-Bobbin tube had a much greater rate of plugging, compared to the other tubes.
(4) It's the star attraction of Georgia's beloved Redneck Games , alongside events such as the Armpit Serenade and Bobbin' For Pigs' Feet.
(5) A filamentous zone develops proximally in the cells concurrently with hemidesmosomes, which assume the typical larval bobbin form as the skeins occupy more of the cytoplasm.
(6) At nearly three times the price of their previous record transfer Andrey Arshavin , Gooners can at least relax safe in the knowledge he can't possibly end up being three times as bobbins.
(7) Instead of an afternoon of drunken shouting I was sitting with a circle of new mums at a music group in our local community centre belting out an irritating song to a room of babies who have no clue about bobbins, or any other part of the textile industry.
(8) This condition persists into the postmetamorphic stage when the figures of Eberth and the bobbin-type hemidesmosomes have gone.
(9) Even if it does mean joining in with the mums on “Wind the Bobbin Up”.
(10) With the exception of the Reuter Bobbin, all mean air conduction thresholds in functioning tubes were below 20 dB.
(11) Previous results demonstrated that nimodipine, an L-type of Ca2+ channel antagonist, abolished the negative summating potential (SP) recorded from anesthetized guinea pigs (Bobbin et al., 1990), suggesting that Ca2+ is involved in generation of the negative SP.
(12) The Suquet-Hoyer canal was surrounded like a sheath by numerous thin adrenergic fibers, which were distributed like threads around a bobbin.
(13) The eight tubes used in the survey were the Shepard, Exmoor, Bobbin, Armstrong, Paparella, Shah, Arrow, and collar button.
(14) Two other machines only delivered hypoxic mixtures if the cyclopropane bobbins were removed from their seats and the flow controls opened.
(15) There follows detailed considerations of the structure and structural properties of the aorta and its supports ("bobbins").
(16) In one machine the bobbin did not prevent back flow and the hypoxic mixture occurred when the cyclopropane flow control was left open.
(18) Progress in preventive measures depends on better knowledge of the metabolism of the "bobbins".
(19) "I can put ministers on the spot, I think," he says self-deprecatingly, searching his rucksack for a copy of Hansard and his 1985 private members bill, during a rest-stop in an ancient patch of silver birch, planted as coppice for making textile mill bobbins.
Bobbing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bob
Example Sentences:
(1) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
(2) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
(3) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
(4) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
(5) We studied bobbed loci at different magnification steps, analysing their behaviour through the reversion process and the way they carry out a second round of magnification.
(6) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
(7) I will destroy you.” Khan, a former WBA and IBF light world welterweight champion, also turned on Manny Pacquiao, accusing him and his team, led by Bob Arum, of providing conflicting reasons for choosing to fight Timothy Bradley in April, instead of the Bolton born boxer.
(8) The remaining four crossbench senators – Jacqui Lambie, Bob Day, Dio Wang and Glenn Lazarus – are still in negotiations and have not yet reached a position on the bill.
(9) Having women in top jobs doesn't make any difference anyway If this were the case, why would some of the best brains, both male and female, in the government, including Sir Bob Kerslake , head of the civil service, be concerned about it?
(10) Bobbed mutants also have the same molar ratios as wild-type flies.
(11) It would have been known as the Office of Congressional Complaint Review, and the rule change would have required that “any matter that may involve a violation of criminal law must be referred to the Committee on Ethics for potential referral to law enforcement agencies after an affirmative vote by the members”, according to the office of Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia who pushed for the change.
(12) After more than a year together, Jenny felt that Bob had given her the right signals that he was interested in having children with her.
(13) Hardy headlines as an ex-con named Bob Saginowski who is trying to live out a quiet life away from crime as a bartender.
(14) And in Colorado the fiercely anti-immigration conservative and former presidential candidate Ted Tancredo was comfortably overcome by a more moderate former congressman, Bob Beauprez, in the primary to choose the Republican candidate for the state's governor.
(15) Analysis of the rates and amounts of rRNA and 5s RNA synthesized in Drosophila melanogaster bobbed mutants was done by using acrylamide-gel electrophoresis.
(16) Following the last model’s disappearance backstage, Galliano appeared briefly in front of the audience and bobbed a blink-and-you-missed-it bow, dressed in the white lab coat that is the uniform of the Maison Margiela label for whom he now designs.
(17) Bob Cannell, member of Suma Wholefoods workers co-operative "Suma had its best ever business results in 2013 and there have been similar results for other worker co-ops such as Unicorn Grocery in Manchester.
(18) "Ghana are a talented team and their coach has them well organised," the USA coach, Bob Bradley, said.
(19) With her blond bob, convertible car, cigarette in hand and cropped top emblazoned with the letters YOLO ("You Only Live Once"), this is an Alice in Wonderland the world has not seen before.
(20) The results are consistent with the hypothesis that the bobbed locus contains multiple cistrons, some threshold number of which are needed to produce ribosomal RNA and the normal phenotype.