package vs spindle

package

noun
  • Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope. 

  • Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software. 

  • Something resembling a package. 

  • The male genitalia. 

  • A charge made for packing goods. 

  • Synonym of wrap (“complete news report ready for broadcast”) 

  • A football formation. 

  • A package holiday. 

  • A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager. 

  • A group of related stories spread over several pages. 

verb
  • To pack or bundle something. 

  • To prepare (a book, a television series, etc.), including all stages from research to production, in order to sell the result to a publisher or broadcaster. 

  • To travel on a package holiday. 

spindle

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

  • 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. 

verb
  • To make into a long tapered shape. 

  • To impale on a device for holding paper documents. 

  • To take on a long tapered shape. 

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