Bobbin vs Sewing - What's the difference?
bobbin | sewing |
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.
The action of the verb to sew .
Something that is being or has been sewn.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
As nouns the difference between bobbin and sewing
is that bobbin is a spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled while sewing is the action of the verb to sew .As a verb sewing is
.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.
Derived terms
* bobbin-and-fly frame * bobbin lace * bobbinless * bobbinlikesewing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- She put down her sewing and went to answer the door.
- The sewing has come undone on this seam.
- Mrs. Flanders had left her sewing on the table. There were her large reels of white cotton and her steel spectacles; her needle-case; her brown wool wound round an old postcard.
