(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.
Reel
Definition:
(n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
(n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel.
(n.) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.
(n.) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
(v. t.) To roll.
(v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
(v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
(v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
(n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
Example Sentences:
(1) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(2) There were still 25 seconds left on the clock when Vernon Davis reeled in a catch at the Baltimore nine-yard line, but San Francisco could not convert on second or third down.
(3) Director Gareth Edwards , who made Godzilla, introduced a tantalizing concept reel to preview the mysterious film, which is part of a series of films exploring other stories outside of the core Star Wars saga.
(4) Europe produced the greatest comeback in the tournament's history to reel in the US and retain the trophy.
(5) Hurst, still reeling, says, "It shouldn't have happened.
(6) DNA reeling, such as done by type I restriction-modification enzymes, is proposed to provide this special mechanism for folding.
(7) But I just felt like strangling him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest America’s most segregated city: the young black voters of Milwaukee There was the barber in Milwaukee, a city reeling from a succession of police shootings of black men, offended by Trump’s claim African Americans like him have “nothing to lose”.
(8) The surface channelling effect has been observed in GaAs (110) with REELS, which may provide a basis for localizing surface foreign atoms with ALCHEMI.
(9) Christine Ockrent: Elitism is Le Pen's real target In France both the socialists and conservatives are reeling.
(10) Lovejoy was a big deal, with X Factor-sized ratings: McShane's easygoing charisma reeled in up to 16m viewers a week.
(11) He reeled off his speech with the eclat of a wet firework.
(12) But the world's largest insurer has seen its shares plunge in recent weeks as it reels from the effects of the credit crunch.
(13) A pensioner is celebrating a catch of the day that’s closer to Herman Melville than Harry Ramsden’s after reeling in the biggest cod recorded to have been landed by a British angler.
(14) The presidential election in Honduras was heading towards a stalemate, according to the latest polls, in a country reeling from violence, poverty and the legacy of a 2009 coup.
(15) Now, however, the new administration of Hassan Rouhani is taking steps to open up Iran to foreigners in an effort to improve its international image after the gloomy years under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – and to bring in much-needed foreign currency to an economy reeling from years of sanctions.
(16) We've scored 99 goals before Sunday – that's some highlights reel to come.
(17) On Wattpad, 14-year-old Abby Meyer - who goes by SnowDrop07 online - is still reeling after being shortlisted for a competition judged by Margaret Atwood alongside much older competitors.
(18) We might not be able to do all of that at once,” she said, while reeling off a set of vanilla policy objectives by Democratic standards: healthcare reform, energy independence, new jobs, education standards and pulling troops (carefully) out of Iraq.
(19) Reeling, News Corp could barely give a coherent answer on Monday afternoon – but for the moment, yes, the bid is still on.
(20) So we looped them into the reel-to-reels and crowded round the speakers to hear what their album sounded like – but all we got was the clang of a snare drum.