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SPINNING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Creating thread
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("spinning" is a kind of...):
handicraft (a craft that requires skillful hands)
Derivation:
spin (work natural fibers into a thread)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb spin
Context examples:
At the same time, the schooner began to turn upon her heel, spinning slowly, end for end, across the current.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“I believe in hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom of the matter first.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You need a little diversion and fun from all the other matters spinning around your world, and you will receive it from the friendly new moon on March 24 in Aries at four degrees.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Thornton was sent spinning, and saved himself from falling only by clutching the rail of the bar.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Physicists have concluded that the detected gravitational waves were produced during the final fraction of a second of the merger of two black holes to produce a single, more massive spinning black hole.
(Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction, NASA)
Human-made sounds can be everything from spinning wind turbines and ship traffic to water scooters and drilling platforms.
(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This bright jet of high-energy material, produced by a disk of material spinning rapidly around the black hole, is visible in multiple wavelengths of light, from radio waves through X-rays.
(The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole, NASA)
The use of a spinning filter mounted in a drum periphery to purify a slurry.
(Centrifugal Filtration, NCI Thesaurus)
A disorder characterized by a disturbing sensation of lightheadedness, unsteadiness, giddiness, spinning or rocking.
(Dizziness, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
A pulsar is a spinning, magnetized neutron star that sweeps regular pulses of radiation in two symmetrical beams across the cosmos.
(NuSTAR Helps Find Universe's Brightest Pulsars, NASA)
