outside vs spindle

outside

verb
  • To ostracize or exclude. 

prep
  • Near, but not in. 

  • Except, apart from. 

  • Beyond the scope, limits, or borders of. 

  • On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building). 

adv
  • Outdoors. 

  • To or in the outdoors or outside; to or in an area that is beyond the scope, limits, or borders of a given place. 

  • Not in prison. 

noun
  • The part of a road towards the central division: towards the right if one drives on the left, or towards the left if one drives on the right. 

  • The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the longer arc length; the side of a racetrack furthest from the interior of the course or some other point of reference. 

  • The outer part of the sea, away from the peak of a wave. 

  • The part of something that faces out; the outer surface. 

  • The external appearance of someone or something. 

  • The space beyond some limit or boundary. 

  • The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc. 

adj
  • Away from the interior or center of something. 

  • Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc. 

  • Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary. 

  • Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc. 

  • Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate. 

  • Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum. 

  • Positioned towards the shoulder of a road: towards the left-hand side if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right. 

  • Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary. 

  • Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.) 

  • Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right. 

spindle

verb
  • To make into a long tapered shape. 

  • To impale on a device for holding paper documents. 

  • To take on a long tapered shape. 

noun
  • A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord. 

  • Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus. 

  • The fusee of a watch. 

  • A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool. 

  • A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle. 

  • Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb. 

  • Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool. 

  • A rod used for spinning and then winding natural fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread. 

  • A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards. 

  • A sleep spindle. 

  • A rod which turns, or on which something turns. 

  • An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering. 

  • A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis 

  • a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers. 

  • A muscle spindle. 

  • A plastic container for packaging optical discs. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package. 

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