(n.) The upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; hence, in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings. See Hollow newel, under Hollow.
Example Sentences:
(1) It even had carved oak bears as newel posts on its modest staircase.
(2) Mike Newell , who made Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire , directed Great Expectations, but there was no big-budget largesse this time.
(3) In June, Holliday and Newell were told that Jessica has Leigh’s syndrome , an inherited neurological disorder that was already causing lesions in her brain.
(4) Updated at 7.16pm BST 3.31pm BST This is Jim Newell in Washington.
(5) They’re wanting to try and park large sums of money – I’m talking from £25m [US$38.5m] to £150m,” Newell said.
(6) Newell has been in priso n since the late 1980s, serving a life sentence for murdering a neighbour during the course of a burglary.
(7) As was found by the hybridization technique, 43 strains among 92 studied strains of the yeast Rhodotorula glutinis belong to Rhodosporidium diobovatum Newell et Hunter (Ustilaginaceae, Basidiomycetes).
(8) "If it is the time between first and third goal, the record is, incredibly, held by Mike Newell, who scored a hat-trick in nine minutes for Blackburn against Rosenborg in the 1995-96 season.
(9) It’s disappointing, but it’s part of this business.” 2.16pm BST Good morning, this is Jim Newell from Washington.
(10) The approach into the Emirates is rather less dangerous than that to Rosario Central’s Estadio Gigante De Arroyito, where Pochettino played for the local rivals, Newell’s Old Boys, in his native Argentina.
(11) Pablo Migliore was detained on Sunday night on the pitch after police sealed off the stadium where only hours before the club had lost 0-1 to Newell's Old Boys.
(12) They have learned, for instance, that the smiles from their daughter, so rare that Newell describes them as “gold dust” could be infrequent because her body is conserving energy.
(13) And reduced prominence for the telescope could impact on the 120,000 visitors who take the Telescope Road exit off the Newell Highway each year.
(14) In an earlier study, Stinson, Newell, Castle, Mallery-Ruganis, and Holcomb (1989) identified a number of characteristics deemed important for comprehension, based on interviews with deaf professionals.
(15) Mike Newell, then Luton Town's manager, said publicly that bungs were rife.
(16) A native of Rosario, Sante Fe in central Argentina, Garay made his way to Benfica via Newells Old Boys, Racing Santander and Real Madrid.
(17) "Have Newell's Old Boys ever played Young Boys of Berne?"
(18) If we went through the natural route, they could never tell us if another baby would be affected,” said Newell, 42, director of High Wycome Cricket Club.
(19) Pochettino blazed his kick over the crossbar but Newell’s still won an epic shootout 11-10.
(20) After a 1-1 first-leg draw, the 20-year-old Pochettino headed Newell’s in front before the Colombians scored a late equaliser and penalties ensued.
Spindle
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
(n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
(n.) The fusee of a watch.
(n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
(n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
(n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
(n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
(n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
(v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
Example Sentences:
(1) A spindle cell sarcoma appeared 20 months after implantation of a pellet of 3-methylcholanthrene in the denervated foreleg of an adult frog, Rana pipiens.
(2) Actin is present in chromosomal spindle fibres, with consistent polarity.
(3) The aim was to clarify the nature of their constituent cells, specifically the giant ganglion-like cells and spindle cells, and to discuss the implications for histogenesis.
(4) Despite severe defects in the 1st or 2nd meiotic spindles in all mutants, no effect on mitosis was observed.
(5) The unsatisfactory smear showed atypical spindle cells.
(6) The cortical thresholds for contraction of m. extensor digitorum communis and for acceleration of the discharges of its muscle spindles have therefore been compared.2.
(7) Out of the remaining 14 cases six tumours consisted of epithelioid cells, one--spindle-shaped and seven were of mixed structure.
(8) Fibroblastic cells were characterized by their spindle shape, content of a mucopolysaccharide, their relative inability to synthesize infectious influenza virus, and production of a cell-associated noninfectious hemagglutinin.
(9) Germinal vesicle stage oocytes undergo perinuclear aggregation of acidic organelles during GVBD and these organelles subsequently disperse into the cell cortex as the first meiotic spindle migrates to the oocyte periphery.
(10) This is the first study identifying the birefringence of the spindle microtubules as well as three sets of microfilamentous structure in Dictyostelium.
(11) In reviewing recent progress concerning the motor system and drug action, the following subjects will be discussed on the basis of our data: 1) the mechanisms of action of mephenesin and baclofen, 2) baclofen and gamma-aminobutyric acid B (GABAB) receptor, 3) GABA-, benzodiazepine receptors, 4) control of spinal motor system by descending noradrenergic neuron, 5) pharmacology of the muscle spindle, and 6) pharmaco-metrics of centrally acting muscle relaxants.
(12) The V79 cells were treated for 30 min and in general, loss of a stainable spindle could be demonstrated at slightly higher concentrations than c-mitosis.
(13) Seven tumours were predominantly of blue and spindle-cell, fascicular type, resembling malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour and at times monophasic synovial sarcoma.
(14) To our knowledge, peripheral adenocarcinoma of the lung with a spindle-cell component has not been described previously.
(15) H-protein altered the structure of the LMM paracrystals, especially the spindle-shaped ones.
(16) Isolated nuclei from green leaf tissue of tomato plants infected with potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) were bound to microscope slides, fixed with formaldehyde and hybridized with biotinylated transcripts of cloned PSTVd cDNA.
(17) The wire functioned as a spindle along which the distraction of the osteotomized bone fragments was continued.
(18) It is suggested that contracting extrafusal muscle fibres can modulate the discharge pattern of spindle endings and contribute to the variability of discharge during a voluntary contraction.
(19) In the same subject, also the ratio between the number of the muscle spindles found in m. rectus dorsalis and that of m. levator palpebrae superioris was examined.
(20) We tested nine (cadmium chloride, chloral hydrate, colchicine, diazepam, econazole nitrate, hydroquinone, pyrimethamine, thiabendazole, thimerosal) of the 10 known or suspected spindle poisons of the coordinated programme to study aneuploidy induction sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities using Saccharomyces cerevisiae D61.M (mitotic chromosomal malsegregation system).