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[ US /ˈspaɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈspaɪn/ ]
NOUN
- a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
- any sharply pointed projection
- a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
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the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved
the title and author were printed on the spine of the book -
the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
the fall broke his back
How To Use spine In A Sentence
- Although the World Cup is all encompassing at the moment, when it comes to sport there is no more spine-tingling moment than when 65,000 fans at Murrayfield sing ‘Flower of Scotland’.
- Some may insist you sleep on mats on hard floors to straighten out the spine, but they are in a minority.
- It was not a spine-tingling speech, the delivery was rather wooden. Times, Sunday Times
- As the match flared in his hands, something needle-sharp sliced through his jacket to touch his spine. THE KEYS OF HELL
- From the spine, thirty-one pairs of nerves, called _spinal nerves_, pass to different parts of my body; some to the lungs, some to the heart, some to the stomach, some to the bones, and some to the muscles and skin. Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City
- It will include harpists, a soprano soloist accompanied by the flute and spinet and music by Mozart as well as other lesser-known composers.
- Adhering egg clusters along the spines are covered by thin, gelatinous sheath; tips of spines are separated from each other, with slight but distinct subterminal narrowing.
- Hold that stretch, pulling and elongating the spine from the very base out of the hips, chin to chest.
- To one side of the central playing area is another book with its spine in the air, forming a shelter for six unseen musicians. Times, Sunday Times
- The increasing swelling of an aneurysm of the aorta may press on the spine and chest organs.