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English

Etymology

From espine (modern: épine).

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Noun

  1. A person or thing's backbone; the series of bones collectively from one's (literal or figurative) head to tail or pelvis.
  2. * 1851, w:Herman Melville|Herman Melville, w:Moby Dick|Moby Dick, s:Moby-Dick/Chapter 80|Chapter 80,
  3. * :If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls.
  4. A rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant.
  5. * 1871, w:Charles Darwin|Charles Darwin, w:Descent of Man|Descent of Man, s:Descent of Man/Chapter XII|Chapter XII,
  6. * :The male, as Dr. Gunther informs me, has a cluster of stiff, straight spines, like those of a comb, on the sides of the tail
  7. courage|Courage or assertiveness.
  8. * 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 409,
  9. * :Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.
  10. The narrow, bound edge of a book.
  11. * Powells Book's, 1,
  12. * :Because the spine is generally all you can see when a book is on the shelf, the spine displays the title and author of the book and is often ornately decorated.


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Italian

Noun

spine


et:spine fa:spine fr:spine io:spine it:spine kk:spine hu:spine pl:spine ru:spine fi:spine ta:spine te:spine vi:spine zh:spine

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spine \Spine\, n. [L. spina thorn, the spine; akin to spica a
point: cf. OF. espine, F. ['e]pine. Cf. Spike, Spinet a
musical instrument, Spinny.]
1. (Bot.) A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.
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2. (Zool.)
(a) A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an
animal.
(b) One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.
[1913 Webster]

3. (Anat.) The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal; --
so called from the projecting processes upon the
vertebrae.
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4. Anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet spine
n 1: the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and
protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back"
[syn: spinal column, vertebral column, backbone, back,
rachis]
2: any pointed projection [syn: spur]
3: a sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf [syn: thorn, prickle,
pricker, sticker]
4: a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine
quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
Moby Dictionary
advocate , alpenstock , arm , athletic supporter , back , backbone ,
backing , bandeau , barb , barbel , barbule , bearer , bilge , blain ,
bleb , blister , blob , boss , bow , bra , brace , bracer , bracket ,
bramble , brassiere , brier , bristle , bubble , bulb , bulge , bulla ,
bump , bunch , burl , burr , button , buttress , cactus , cahot , cane ,
carrier , catchweed , cervix , chine , cleavers , clump , col , comb ,
condyle , convex , corset , crook , crutch , dowel , ear , esker , flange ,
flap , foundation garment , fulcrum , gall , girdle , gnarl ,
goose grass , guy , guywire , handle , hill , hogback , horseback , hump ,
hunch , jock , jockstrap , jog , joggle , kame , knob , knot , knur , knurl ,
lip , loop , lump , mainstay , maintainer , mast , mole , mountain , neck ,
needle , nettle , nevus , nub , nubbin , nubble , papilloma , peg ,
pine needle , prickle , prong , prop , quill , rachis , ray , reinforce ,
reinforcement , reinforcer , rest , resting place , rib , ridge ,
rigging , ring , saddle , saddleback , shoulder , shroud , spicula ,
spicule , spiculum , spike , spikelet , spinal column , spinal cord ,
sprit , spur , staff , standing rigging , stave , stay , stick , sticker ,
stiffener , strengthener , stud , style , support , supporter ,
sustainer , tab , thistle , thorn , tubercle , tubercule , upholder ,
verruca , vertebrae , vertebral column , vesicle , wale , walking stick ,
wart , welt , yucca


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