bobbin
/'bɔbin/
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Definition
- Noun:
- A cylindrical device for winding thread, yarn, tape, or film: A "bobbin" is a small cylinder, spool, or reel around which flexible materials like thread, wire, or film are wound for storage, organization, or use in a machine.
Usage
- The word "bobbin" is used to refer to the object that holds thread in sewing machines, looms, and other textile machinery.
- It describes a core component in electrical engineering, where wire is wound around it to create a coil.
- It is a countable noun (e.g., a bobbin, three bobbins).
Examples
- Noun:
- The sewing machine needs a new bobbin.
- She wound the black thread onto an empty bobbin.
- The old film projector was loaded with a bobbin of 8mm film.
Advanced Usage
- "Bobbin case": The part of a sewing machine that holds the bobbin.
- She removed the bobbin case to clean it.
- "Bobbin lace": A type of delicate lace made using bobbins to hold and twist the threads.
- The intricate pattern was created using the bobbin lace technique.
- "Bobbin winder": A device, often part of a sewing machine, used to wind thread onto a bobbin.
- Use the bobbin winder to prepare your thread spools.
Variants and Related Words
- Spool (n): A cylindrical device similar to a bobbin for holding thread, wire, etc. (Often used more generally than "bobbin," which is specific to machinery).
- A spool of fishing line.
- Reel (n): A cylinder on which film, tape, wire, or thread is wound.
- A reel of magnetic tape.
- Coil (n): A series of loops or a single spiral of something wound or gathered together.
- A coil of rope.
Synonyms
- Spindle: A rod or pin serving as an axis for winding thread.
- Cylinder: A three-dimensional geometric shape; can describe the form of a bobbin.
Related Phrases
(Note: "Bobbin" itself is not commonly used in phrasal verbs.)
Related Idioms
(Note: There are no common idioms that feature the word "bobbin.")
Noun
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound