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SPINDLING

Definition: SPINDLING

SPINDLING

Adjective

1. Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Spindle

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SPINDLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)


Synonyms: SPINDLING

Synonyms by domain: axle (mechanical engineering, transportation), heart (sports & leisure, transportation), inner shaft (food & agriculture, mechanical engineering), main spindle (mechanical engineering), pin (mechanical engineering, transportation), pintle (mechanical engineering), pivot (food & agriculture, mechanical engineering), pole beacon (transportation), single-pile beacon, spindle (sports & leisure, transportationpublic administrationmetallurgymedicinemechanical engineeringmechanical engineering, transportationmechanical engineering, metallurgyeuropean union, industryelectrical engineering, physicscomputingfood & agriculture, mechanical engineeringfood & agriculture, building & civil engineeringindustryindustry, mechanical engineeringchemical industry), spindle pipe (food & agriculture, building & civil engineering), swivel (mechanical engineeringfood & agriculture, mechanical engineering).

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Modern Translation: SPINDLING

Language Translations for "SPINDLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

si kunj shkrepsjeje, shëndetlig (cachectic, sickly, unhealthy, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakling, weakly), njeri i lartë dhe i thatë (spindle), i hollë (dainty, delicate, dinky, discerning, egg shell, exquisite, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, ingenious, keen, liny, meager, meagre, nice, paper, papery, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, politic, sleazy, slender, slim, small, spidery, spindly, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, Twiggy, washy). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

с дълги като клечки крака (spindle-legged), крачун (spindle-legs), дългун (spindle-legs, spindle-shanks). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

成纺"形 (Spindled). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υψηλόσ και λεπτόσ (spiry). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyurga (gangling, gaunt, lanky, lathy, overgrown, slab-muscled, slab-sided, spindly), nyakigláb (gangling, spindle, spindly). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

가늘 길게 함. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

indlingspay

   

Russian 

  

худой и высокий, тонкий и высокий, долговязый человек. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izbijanje u stabljiku, dugačak i tanak. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

leylek gibi (spindly, tall and thin), cılız (fatless, feeble, of poor physique, puny, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, sickly, skinny, spindly, undersized, weak), çok zayıf ve uzun (spindly), çöp gibi (angular, skinnny, spindly, stalky), çırpı gibi (spindly). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người thon thon (spindly), người mảnh khảnh (spindly), người dong dỏng (spindly). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SPINDLING

Misspellings

"SPINDLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Seinduin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SPINDLING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-l-n-n-p-s"

-1 letter: pindling, splining.

-2 letters: lignins, linings, lisping, pidgins, pilings, sidling, sliding, sliping, sniping, spiling.

-3 letters: dining, idling, indign, isling, lignin, lining, linins, lipids, lipins, niding, pidgin, piling, pining, siding, siping.

-4 letters: dings, gilds, lings, linin, linns, lipid, lipin, piing, pilis, pings, sigil, sling.

-5 letters: digs, ding, dins, dips, gids, gild, gins, gips, inns, lids, ling, linn.

 Words containing the letters "d-g-i-i-l-n-n-p-s"
 

+2 letters: displanting.

 

+3 letters: disciplining, spellbinding.

 

+5 letters: spellbindingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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