spinning
spinning
American
[spin-ing]
/ ˈspɪn ɪŋ /
noun
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spinnings
plural
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Textiles.
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the act or process of converting staple or short lengths of fiber, as cotton or rayon, into continuous yarn or thread.
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the extrusion of a solution of fiber-forming substances through holes in a spinneret to form filaments.
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Entomology. the act or process of secreting and placing silk or silklike filaments, as in the construction of a web by a spider or the formation of a cocoon by a caterpillar.
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Also called spin casting, spin fishing, thread-line fishing. Angling. the act or technique of casting a relatively light lure attached to a threadlike line wound on a stationary spool.
spinning
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British
/ ˈspɪnɪŋ /
noun
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the act or process of spinning
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( as modifier )
spinning yarn
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the act or technique of casting and drawing a revolving lure through the water so as to imitate the movement of a live fish, etc
Spinning
2
British
/ ˈspɪnɪŋ /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of spinning
Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at spin, -ing 1
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In principle, a sufficiently fast spinning black hole could overcome the usual thermodynamic restriction.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
"Laos has so much natural resources" -- wind, hydro and solar, Narut told AFP in an interview held below the spinning blades of a 110-metre-high turbine.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
"It's a very old building, and sometimes the trustees feel like they're trying to keep all the plates spinning, it's very hard at times."
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
But he’s never been so delicately novelistic, and so accessibly human, as with his latest movie, “Possible Love,” even when Lee is spinning the enigmatic vibes he’s known for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
My heart raced with the music, the swells and beats of the spinning making me large and full of life.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Spinning that lore for a modern audience, then, calls for fronting the cast with a star whose popular persona is outsized compared to his dramatic proficiency.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
The theme park opened its new rollercoaster, Spinning Racer, on Friday as part of its "new era".
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
Spinning heads aside, the influence of the body-horror aspects of William Friedkin’s 1973 film can be found in much of what Ms. Davies includes in her survey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Spinning discs around baby stars do the same: they make spiral structures because of gravity.
From Space Scoop ● Oct. 24, 2025
Spinning around, I raced back up the hill to the cottage, to the place where everything I needed and loved could be found.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
The central text of Europe’s central religion, followed closely by the tales and fairy spinnings of a Greek storyteller.
From Scientific American ● May 8, 2012
Despite these wild spinnings, spiral-swimming creatures manage to navigate very well.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2011
Many of them try too hard to impress with excessive swan flutterings as the swan-queen Odette on the one hand and multitudinous spinnings as the enchantress Odile on the other.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2010
Approximately half the footage of Ice Follies is devoted to the spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Plumie ship must have seen the rocket flares, but it continued to dance, coming nearer and ever nearer in seemingly heedless and purposeless plungings and spinnings in star-speckled space.
From The Aliens by H. R. van Dongen
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