Bobbin vs Roller - What's the difference?
bobbin | roller |
A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
* Jan. 8, 2004 , Machine Design Magazine , p. 108
In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
(haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.
(lb) Anything that rolls.
#Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
#A person who rolls something, as in "cigar roller".
#(lb) A heavy rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.
#A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.
#An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
#One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
#A roller towel.
#A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
#Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves.
#Any of the small ground snakes of the family .
A long wide bandage used in surgery.
A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
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*:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend?; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits?; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,.
(lb) A bird.
#A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler, tumbler pigeon, English Short Faced Tumbler, English Long Faced Tumbler).
#Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.
(also written Roller) A car made by Rolls-Royce.
The police (old blues slang).
A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
*2006 , (Clive James), North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 69:
*:I learned a lot from watching, but the part that I should have studied harder was the roller . The names of the writers went on for ever.
As a noun bobbin
is a spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.As a proper noun roller is
(slang) a rolls-royce car.bobbin
English
Noun
(en noun)- Ignition coils using a bobbin molded from high-performance polyester withstand open-circuit bench tests to 70kV.
- Wind the bobbin , place it in the machine, and raise the thread.