A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
A quarterback.
The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
A circle runner.
A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
An element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0.
A pivot table.
Act of turning on one foot.
To shift a political candidate's messaging during a general election to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
To turn on an exact spot.
To change the direction of a business, usually in response to changes in the market.
A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
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.
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.
To make into a long tapered shape.
To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
To take on a long tapered shape.