(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.
Dobbin
Definition:
(n.) An old jaded horse.
(n.) Sea gravel mixed with sand.
Example Sentences:
(1) James Dobbins, its special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, will now remaining in Washington until further notice.
(2) Karinda Dobbins : ‘Love will keep me going’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest I survived election night because I was on a show in Oakland with four wonderful female comedians and we got to vent on stage and afterwards comfort each other.
(3) The seat became vacant on Sunday after backbencher Jim Dobbin died aged 73 .
(4) Although Ukip polled just 2.6% in the 2010 general election, which Dobbin won with a 5,971 majority, the party performed well in this May’s local elections.
(5) Paul Nuttall, the party’s deputy leader, said he was certain Bickley would have triumphed had Labour waited for the funeral of its former MP, Jim Dobbin, before moving the writ.
(6) Speaking first in Pashto, followed by Dari, Ghani said: “We believe that the formula of winner-takes-all will not serve our national unity,” echoing arguments by James Dobbins, the US special representative to Afghanistan.
(7) Ambassador James Dobbins, Obama's special representative for Afghanistan, now has thrice-yearly meetings with his Chinese counterpart to discuss future areas of co-operation.
(8) Liz McInnes won for Labour with 11,633 votes which was well down on the 18,499 votes (40.1%) the late Jim Dobbin won at the 2010 general election.
(9) "We are still in discussion with the Afghan government about the appropriate next steps," said state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who confirmed Dobbins would remain in the US for now.
(10) "I don't think [the] state [department] has ever operated on its own, independent of the US military, in an environment that is quite as threatening on such a large scale," James Dobbins, a former ambassador to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo and Somalia, told the paper.
(11) Brantly arrived in the US at Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta, Georgia, and was driven by ambulance to the hospital, about 15 miles away.
(12) It is understood that a senior Labour figure will seek the consent of Dobbin's family before any attempt to begin the process of setting a timetable for a byelection.
(13) The election is due to be held on 9 October and Ukip hopes to overturn the 6,000 majority of the late Labour MP Jim Dobbin, who died last week aged 73 .
(14) Ambassador James Dobbins, its special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, will now remaining in Washington until further notice.
(15) First, the hypothesis that low SE influences behavior more than does high SE (Wallston, Wallston, Smith & Dobbins, 1987) was evaluated.
(16) Broadband providers should act to protect themselves and customers, said Roland Dobbins, Senior ASERT Analyst at Arbor Networks.
(17) The average internet user has little recourse other than to ask their provider to scan their systems to see if they have this feature switched on, Dobbins added.