spindle vs piece
piece vs spindlespindle and piece both are nouns.
spindle is not a verb while piece is a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| spindle | Yes | No | No | No |
| piece | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As nouns,
piece is a hypernym of
spindle; that is, piece is a
word with a broader meaning than spindle:
- spindle: a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc.
- piece: a separate part of a whole
| spindle (noun) | piece (noun) |
|---|---|
| a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning | a separate part of a whole |
| any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games |
| a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. | a portable gun |
| any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object | a work of art of some artistic value |
| (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle | an item that is an instance of some type |
| a distance | |
| a musical work that has been created | |
| an artistic or literary composition | |
| an instance of some kind | |
| a serving that has been cut from a larger portion | |
| a portion of a natural object | |
| a share of something | |
| a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition |
| spindle (verb) | piece (verb) |
|---|---|
| repair by adding pieces | |
| eat intermittently; take small bites of | |
| join during spinning | |
| to join or unite the pieces of | |
| create by putting components or members together |
Words related to "spindle"
Words related to "piece"
- .22
- North Atlantic
- North Pacific
- South Atlantic
- South Pacific
- acicula
- afterpiece
- arrangement
- art object
- article
- assemble
- autoloader
- bagatelle
- base
- beam
- bit
- black
- body part
- building block
- bushel
- canon
- capriccio
- case
- checker
- chequer
- chess piece
- chessman
- coda
- cold snap
- cold spell
- comfit
- composition
- compound
- confect
- confection
- configure
- confuse
- conjoin
- corner
- corpus
- craton
- create
- creation
- csardas
- cutlet
- cutting
- czardas
- distance
- divertimento
- doctor
- duet
- duette
- duo
- eat
- escallop
- etude
- example
- fantasia
- filet
- fillet
- finale
- firearm
- firing pin
- fish filet
- fish fillet
- fix
- fragment
- furbish up
- game equipment
- gun
- handgun
- helping
- hiatus
- hot spell
- hunk
- idyl
- idyll
- incidental music
- instance
- intermezzo
- introit
- item
- join
- jumble
- larghetto
- lock
- lump
- make
- man
- medley
- mend
- mix up
- morceau
- motet
- movement
- music
- musical arrangement
- musical composition
- musical passage
- muzzle loader
- nibble
- nocturne
- notturno
- nub
- objet d'art
- octet
- octette
- opus
- part
- passage
- pastiche
- pastoral
- pastorale
- patch
- percentage
- pick
- piece of cloth
- piece of leather
- piece of material
- piece of music
- pistol
- portion
- potpourri
- program music
- programme music
- put together
- quartet
- quartette
- quintet
- quintette
- realisation
- realization
- reassemble
- repair
- repeater
- repeating firearm
- restore
- rifle
- rig up
- riot gun
- scallop
- scattergun
- scollop
- scrap
- segment
- self-loader
- septet
- septette
- serenade
- serving
- sestet
- set up
- sextet
- sextette
- shard
- share
- sheet music
- sherd
- shooting iron
- shotgun
- side arm
- sights
- slice
- small-arm
- smoothbore
- snap
- snip
- snippet
- snipping
- solo
- sonata
- song
- spell
- spindle
- splice
- strip
- stub
- study
- suite
- symphonic poem
- tack
- tack together
- thing
- tile
- time
- toccata
- tone poem
- touch on
- trio
- twenty-two
- unit
- vamp
- vamp up
- virtu
- vlog
- vocal
- while
- white
- work of art
- world
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