Meaning of சுழல் in English

A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.
Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.
A sick person; an invalid.
Sick; infirm.
Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.
Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
A spy; a scout.
Resembling a dart; having sharp points.
To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.
To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.
To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.
To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.
To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.
To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.
To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein.
To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.
Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant spinach, or the family of plants to which it belongs.
The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.
The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
The fusee of a watch.
A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
of Spindle
The pintail duck.
Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.
A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also chromium.
Producing spines; bearing thorns or spines; thorny; spiny.
Bearing a spine or spines; thorn-bearing.
Quality of being spiny.
One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.
Spinose; thorny.
Having the form of a spine or thorn; spinelike.
A woman who spins.
Having small spines; somewhat thorny.
A minute spine.
Covered with small spines.
The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals.
One of the external openings communicating with the air tubes or tracheae of insects, myriapods, and arachnids. They are variable in number, and are usually situated on the sides of the thorax and abdomen, a pair to a segment. These openings are usually elliptical, and capable of being closed. See Illust. under Coleoptera.
A tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. It is the modified first gill cleft.
Any small aperture or vent for air or other fluid.
Of or pertaining to a spiracle.
Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix.
Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.
The quality or states of being spiral.
In a spiral form, manner, or direction.
A term used differently by different authorities; -- by some as equivalent to fricative, -- that is, as including all the continuous consonants, except the nasals m, n, ng; with the further exception, by others, of the liquids r, l, and the semivowels w, y; by others limited to f, v, th surd and sonant, and the sound of German ch, -- thus excluding the sibilants, as well as the nasals, liquids, and semivowels. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-208.
The occasional twisted growth of the parts of a flower.
One of certain minute coiled threads in the coating of some seeds. When moistened these threads protrude in great numbers.
To spirt in a scattering manner.
Having the color spots, or structural parts, arranged spirally.
A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact.
A hospital.
A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun.
To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.