Arbor vs. Mandrel

Arbornoun

A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.

Arbornoun

A grove of trees.

Arbornoun

An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.

Arbornoun

A bar for supporting cutting tools.

Arbornoun

A spindle of a wheel.

Arbornoun

A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower.

Arbornoun

A tree, as distinguished from a shrub.

Arbornoun

An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.

Arbornoun

tree (as opposed to shrub)

Arbornoun

any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts

Arbornoun

a framework that supports climbing plants;

Mandrelnoun

A round object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. shaping or enlarging a ring, or bending or enlarging a pipe without creasing or kinking it.

Mandrelnoun

A tool or component of a tool that guides, grips or clamps something, such as a workpiece to be machined, a machining tool or a part while it is moved.

Mandrelnoun

A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor.

Mandrelnoun

any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts

Mandrel

A mandrel, mandril, or arbor is: a gently tapered cylinder against which material can be forged or shaped (e.g., a ring mandrel used by jewelers to increase the diameter of a wedding ring); or a flanged or tapered or threaded bar that grips a workpiece to be machined in a lathe. A flanged mandrel is a parallel bar of a specific diameter with an integral flange towards one end, and threaded at the opposite end.