Spine

Definition: Spine

Spine

Noun

1. The series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back".

2. Any pointed projection.

3. A sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf.

4. A sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Electrical Engineering

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

Synonyms: Spine

Courage

Manliness, manhood; nerve, pluck, mettle, game; heart, heart of grace; spunk, guts, face, virtue, hardihood, intestinal fortitude; firmness; (stability); heart of oak; bottom, backbone, spine; (perseverance) a. resolution; (determination); bulldog courage.

Sharpness

Point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum; needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca.

Crosswords: Spine

Italian (thorns).

The men of Rock are known to be brittle at the spine. (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence)

Ironically, I severed his spine when I fell on him. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

The rine in spine sties minely in the pline (My Fair Lady; writing credit: George Bernard Shaw; Alan Jay Lerner)

Lord, place the steel of the Holy Spirit in my spine and the love of the Virgin Mary in my heart (Gangs of New York; writing credit: Jay Cocks)

The shockwave from one of these explosions could snap your spine. (U-571; writing credit: Jonathan Mostow)

Brush up against me i get chills all down my spine (Sexual (Li Da Di); performing artist: Amber)

I get the chills up and down my spine (Play; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez)

Icy fingers up and down my spine ("That Old Black Magic"; performing artist: Louis Prima & Keely Smith)

And inviting me to that tingle in yo spine (So Fresh, So Clean; performing artist: Outkast)

Magenta feelings take up shelter in the base of my spine (I Want You; performing artist: Savage Garden)

Rose e spine (1914)

Spine (1986)

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Books

• Handbook of Diagnostic & Therapeutic Spine Procedures (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Seminars In Spine Surgery (reference)

• Spine (reference)

• Spine Journal (reference)

• European Spine Journal (reference)

• Journal Of Neurosurgery : Spine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• West Coast Pilates: The Spine Corrector (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Spine (reference)

• Spine of God (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Photo #1.Cross-section of first spine of dorsal fin of young bluefin tuna showing annual growth rings. These rings are similar to tree growth rings. The wide (brown) areas represent summer growth during periods of high food intake. The narrow (white) bands represent periods of less fast growth during the winter when the fish's metabolism slows. Credit: Fisheries.

Cross-section of first spine of dorsal fin of a one-year old bluefin tuna. This image is greatly magnified. Credit: Fisheries.

[Endpages, a spine, and a cover of stacked books]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Child afflicted with tuberculosis of the spine in cast on porch of his home near Warner, Oklahoma. Tenant farm family. Credit: Library of Congress.

Books. Spine of book entitled Tomorrow morning. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

His moral spine leaned upon that firmness

A gradual warmth, a languorous weariness passed over him, descending along his spine from his closely cowled head

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Health

Osteoarthritis of the spine, hips, or knees. (references)

The doctor may take x-rays of the skull and spine. (references)

One common cause of sciatica is a herniated disc (see Spine Basics in the Appendix). (references)

Human Rights

South Africa

One person was shot in the spine, and another woman died of her injuries in the hospital 3 days after the incident. (references)

Syria

Former prisoners and detainees report that torture methods include administering electrical shocks; pulling out fingernails; forcing objects into the rectum; beating, sometimes while the victim is suspended from the ceiling; hyperextending the spine; and using a chair that bends backwards to asphyxiate the victim or fracture the victim's spine. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "spine": cleft spine ♦ curvature of the spine ♦ dorsal spine ♦ fish's spine ♦ iliac spine ♦ ischial spine ♦ kissing spine ♦ nasal spine ♦ railway spine ♦ spine rachis ♦ spine road ♦ spine robot ♦ spine wagon ♦ telltale spine ♦ trochlear spine. Additional references.

Beginning with "spine": spine-bending, spine-bone, spine-chiller, spine-chilling, Spine-finned, spine-like, Spine-snapper, spine-snapping, spine-stretching, Spine-tailed, Spine-tailed swift, spine-thrilling, spine-tinglers, spine-tingling, spine-tinglingly, spine-tipped, spine-toad, spine-toothed.

Ending with "spine": tail-spine.

Albanian

shtyllë kurrizore (backbone), shpinë (back, backing, rake, rear), lurriz, gjemb (barb, blackthorn, pricker, prickle, sticker, thorn). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قمة جبل (pinnacle, ridge, summit, top), ‏عقبة (barricade, block, blockade, bunker, difficulty, drawback, hitch, hurdle, inconvenience, interference, jam, obstacle, obstruction, snag, stick, stumbling block), ‏العمود الفقري (back bone, backbone, vertebral column), ‏ظهر الكتاب, ‏شوكة (backbone, barb, fang, goad, pricket, prickle, spur, thorn). (various references)

Bulgarian 

трън (prick, prickle, thorn), шип (barb, calk, ferrule, journal, nib, prick, prickle, rough, spur, thorn), гръбначен стълб (spinal column, vertebrae, vertebral column), гръбнак (backbone), остър тънък костен израстък, бодил (prick, prickle, thorn), игла (aiguille, needle, pin, prick, pricker, quill). (various references)

Chinese 

背骨 , 脊椎 (Chine), 脊 (back, ridge), 椎 (a hammer). (various references)

Czech

páteř (backbone, ridge, vertebrae). (various references)

Danish

rygrad (backbone). (various references)

Dutch

wervelkolom (backbone, spinal column, vertebral column), ruggegraat (backbone, solid, vertebral column), spin (spider). (various references)

Esperanto

spino, vertebraro, vertebra kolono. (various references)

Faeroese

ryggur (back). (various references)

Farsi 

مهره های پشت , تیغ یابرامدگی های بدن موجودات , تیره پشت , ستون فقرات (Backbone). (various references)

Finnish

selkäranka (backbone, spinal column), piikki (barb, fling, prick, prickle, prong, spike, sting, taunt, thorn, tooth). (various references)

French

colonne vertébrale (spinal column), épine (spina), dos. (various references)

Frisian

rêchbonke. (various references)

German

Rückgrat (backbone, grit, spinal), Wirbelsäule (spinal column), Stachel (barb, goad, Pike, prick, prickle, quill, Spike, spur, sting, thorn), Rücken (back, backs, crest, hitch, Mount, move, move on, move over, move up, push, ridge, saddle, thrust), Dorn (arbor, prick, prickle, Spike, thorn). (various references)

Greek 

σπονδυλική στήλη (backbone, vertebral columm), αγκάθι (prickle, thistle, thorn). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחט (needle, pin), שזרה (backbone), קוץ (acantha, Spike, thistle, thorn), עמוד השדרה (back bone, spinal column), עוקץ (acantha, barb, briar, mordant, point, pointed, sarcasm, sting, tip). (various references)

Hungarian

gerinc (backbone, crest, keel, ridge, saddle, stagnation, trough, web), tüske (barb, beard, bristle, bur, burr, dolly, prick, pricker, prickle, Spike, thorn), tövis (drift, mandrel, mandril, prick, pricker, prickle, thorn), hátgerinc (backbone, vertebrae). (various references)

Indonesian

duri (barb, bur, fish bone, prickle, thorn). (various references)

Italian

spina dorsale (back, backbone, Chine, spinal column), spina (bone, fishbone, jack, jumper, male, male connector, plug, prick, prickle, tap, thorn), dorso (back). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

背骨 (backbone), 脊椎 (vertebral column), 棘 (biting words, briars, splinter, the bush, thicket, thorn), 刺 (biting words, calling card, splinter, thorn). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せきつい (vertebral column), せぼね (backbone), いら (biting words, splinter, thorn), とげ (biting words, splinter, thorn). (various references)

Korean 

등뼈 (backbone). (various references)

Manx

craue drommey (backbone, spinal column). (various references)

Pig Latin

inespay.(various references)

Portuguese

espinha (acne, pimple), coluna vertebral (chine). (various references)

Romanian

spin (thorn), miez (core, essence, heart, juice, kernel, knot, marrow, meat, pulp), fond (background, bottom, content, elements, essence, field, fund, gist, ground, groundwork, gut, matter, staple, stock, substance, sum, supply), creastã (aigrette, back, brow, comb, coping, crest, edge, height, hogback, knoll, razor edge, ridge, top, tuft), coloanã vertebralã (spinal column, vertebral column), şira spinãrii (backbone, Chine), ţeapã (bristle, goad, pale, quill, sliver, splinter, thorn). (various references)

Russian 

позвоночник (backbone, rachis, spines, vertebrae). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kičma (backbone), greben planine, bodlja (barb, pricker, quill, thorn). (various references)

Shona

muzongoza. (various references)

Spanish

espina dorsal (backbone), espina (bone, doubt, fishbone, prickle, splinter, thorn), lomo (back, backbone, loin). (various references)

Swedish

ryggrad (backbone, Chine, spinal column), törne (thorn, thorn bush), Rygg (back, Chine, ridge). (various references)

Turkish

sürgün (banishment, bud, deportation, deportee, exile, expatriation, expellee, growth, ostracism, outgrowth, outlaw, outlawry, proscription, relegation, shoot, spray, sprout, tiller, transport, transportation, twig), omurga (backbone, Carina, Chine, keel, rachis, spinal coloumn, vertebrae, vertebral column), kitap sırtı (back), kılçık (awn, bone, fishbone, fish's spine, string), irade (fiat, freedom, pleasure, self control, volition, will, willpower), iğne (brooch, injection, jab, needle, pin, pintle, pointer, prick, shot, spicule, sting, stinger), filiz (bud, burgeon, button, cion, growth, offshoot, ore, outgrowth, rod, shoot, spray, sprig, sprout, tendril, tiller), diken (barb, briar, brier, prick, pricker, prickle, quill, spicule, thorn, thornbush, thorny plant, trichome), belkemiği (back, backbone, basis, Chine, rachis, spinal, spinal coloumn, vertebral column), belkemíğí. (various references)

Turkmen 

oсurga, яagyrny (back), geriю (back). (various references)

Ukrainian

хребет (edge, ridge, vertebrae), голка (needle, prickle), виступ (address, appearance, corbel, gibbosity, jut, ledge, nib, offset, overhang, projection, promontory, protrusion, salience, salient, shoulder, snag, teat, ward). (various references)

Yucatec

t'o'ol a pach. (various references)

1. edin. (various references)

rhakhis. (various references)

aculei, spina, spinae, spinam, spinarum, spinas, spinis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spine": spined, spinel, spineless, spinelessly, spinelessness, spinelessnesses, spinelike, spinelle, spinelles, spinels, spines, spinet, spinets. (additional references)

Words ending with "spine": vespine. (additional references)

Words containing "spine": crispiness, crispinesses, wispiness, wispinesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aspine, epine, espine, Ospina, saine, sepina, Sgine, sinqe, skine, sline, smine, spanel, spanne, Spano, spie, spind, spinde, spinea, spinee, spinel, spiney, spinia, spinna, spinnen, spinx, spone, sponte, spuen, spunee, spyn, stine, svine. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: peins, penis, pines, snipe.

-1 letter: nips, pein, pens, pies, pine, pins, sine, sipe, snip, spin.

-2 letters: ens, ins, nip, pen, pes, pie, pin, pis, psi, sei, sen, sin, sip.

-3 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, pe, pi, si.

+1 letter: genips, instep, mispen, opines, pekins, pennis, pensil, pepsin, ponies, puisne, repins, ripens, sniped, sniper, snipes, spined, spinel, spines, spinet, spline, supine.

+2 letters: alpines, crispen, dipnets, dispend, emptins, epigons, epinaos, epsilon, erepsin, espying, hipness, impends, impones, incepts, inphase, inscape, inspect, inspire, insteps, inswept, lineups, lippens, lupines, mispens, nappies, nippers, nipples, orpines, paesani, pandies, paniers, pansies, panties, patines, pectins, peising, pencils, penises, pennies, pensile, pensils, pension, pensive, peonies, peonism, pepsine, pepsins, phonies, pigeons, pigpens, pigsney, pilsner, pincers, pinches, pinders, pineals, pinenes, pinesap, pingers, pingoes, piniest, pinites, pinkens, pinkers, pinkest, pinkeys, pinkies, pinkoes, pinners, pinnies, pinoles, pinones, pintles, pintoes, piscine, plenish, plenism, plenist, pointes, princes, pterins, puisnes, puniest, punkies, punties, purines, rapines, repines, sapiens, sapient, seeping, senopia, shipmen, shippen, sinopie, snipers, snipped, snipper, snippet, spaeing, spaniel, spewing, sphenic, spinage, spinate, spindle, spinels, spinets, spinier, spinner, spinney, spinose, spinule, splenia, splenic, splenii, splined, splines, springe, spunkie, stipend, supines, tenpins, tiepins, unpiles, uprisen, vespine, winesop.