What's the difference between bobbin and filature?

Bobbin


Definition:

  • (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.
  • (17) Shepard Teflon grommet, Armstrong beveled tube, Reuter-Bobbin tube, and Goode T-tube.
  • (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.

Filature


Definition:

  • (n.) A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.
  • (n.) A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A clinical survey in two silk filatures revealed that 36.2% of the persons engaged in the processing of natural silk were suffering from bronchial asthma, while 16.9% of the total subjects had asthma of occupational origin.
  • (2) The risk of developing stomach cancer was significantly high in male and female agricultural workers, while that of developing cancer of the mouth-and-pharynx was significantly high in construction workers in men and filature-and-spinning workers in women.

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