spinning
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- present participle of spin.
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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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
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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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"I come from Japan many times to Shetland for wool week because I love the sheep and the local people. I love Shetland lace knitting and spinning," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
It is also easy to forget Jacks began the year in England's Test side, as their spinning all-rounder during the Ashes - a role now filled by Dan Lawrence.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Veteran energy advisers say that with no resolution to the Iran war in sight, the situation risks spinning out of control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
This small sideways displacement is the optical equivalent of the Magnus effect that makes a spinning table tennis ball curve through the air.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
She had been spinning wool into a gentle shade of lavender, but as she spoke, the color deepened to a violent purple.
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 discs around baby stars do the same: they make spiral structures because of gravity.
From Space Scoop ● Oct. 24, 2025
Appeared in the October 16, 2025, print edition as 'Setting the Classics Spinning'.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
Spinning around toward the rest of us, he carried a surprised look.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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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