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Mandrel vs Thorn - What's the difference?

mandrel | thorn |

As a noun mandrel

is an object used as an aid for shaping a material, eg bending a pipe without creasing or kinking it.

As a proper noun thorn is

for someone living near a thorn bush.

mandrel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. bending a pipe without creasing or kinking it.
  • A tool or component of a tool that grips]] or [[clamp, clamps something, such as a workpiece to be machined, a machining tool or a part while it is moved.
  • * 1920 , Lester Gray French, Machinery , Volume 26, page 491,
    • This socket forms the starting point of the piercing operation, enabling the mandrel to center itself on the work.
  • * 1961 , Robert Sprenkle, David Ledet, The Art of Oboe Playing , page 46,
    • When inserted into the staple, the outside of the mandrel should fit the inside of the staple exactly.

    Synonyms

    * spindle, arbor

    Coordinate terms

    * chuck

    thorn

    English

    (wikipedia thorn)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sharp protective spine of a plant.
  • Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns.
    • the white thorn'''; the cockspur '''thorn
  • (figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
  • * Bible, 2 Corinthians xii. 7
    • There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.
  • * South
    • The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares, / Be only mine.
  • A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital:'' Þ''', ''small:'' '''þ'''), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English '' '''th igh
  • * See also Etymology of ye (definite article).

    • Derived terms

    * thorn apple * thorn broom * thornbush * thorn devil * thorn hopper * thorn in one's side * Thornton * thorny

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pierce with, or as if with, a
  • * {{quote-book, year=1869, author=, title=Old Town Folks citation
    • , passage=
  • * {{quote-book, year=2003, author=Scott D. Zachary, title=Scorn This, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=HELSK5JtSbMC&pg=PA175, page=175
    • , passage=Even Judge Bradley's callused sentiments were thorned by the narration of Jaclyn's journals.}}

    See also

    * eth, edh, * wynn, wen, *

    Anagrams

    * * ----