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Definition: Spinning |
SpinningAdjective1. Rotating rapidly about an axis; "a spinning top"; "the whirling dance of the Dervish". Noun1. Creating thread. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spinning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | Spinning the cocoon. . . . . As the silk exudes, the silkworm moves its head backwards and forwards in a figure 8 movement. . . . spinning usually takes 2 or 3 days. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemical Industry | The technique of manufacturing filaments or fibres by forcing the molten plastics material through a spinnaret. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are spinning, means that you will engage in some enterprise, which will be all you could wish. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Industry | May be divided into 3 essential steps: 1) reduction of the strand by rolls. . . 2) twisting of the strand. . . 3) winding of the yarn onto a suitable package for further use. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | Rotation of the body, commonly, but not necessarily, about its centre of gravity. Usually reserved for rotation in the yaw plane, "tumbling" Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Spinning is the process of creating yarn (or thread, rope, cable) from various raw fiber materials. Several fibers are twisted together to bind them into a strong, long yarn. Characteristics of the yarn vary based on the material used, fiber length and alignment, quantity of fiber used and degree of twist. The earliest spinning probably involved simply twisting the fibers in the hand. Later the use of a stick to help twist the fiber was introduced. Drop spinning involves the use of a stick with a whorl or weight to stabilize the spinning of the stick (called a spindle). The spindle is spun, and hangs supported by the yarn as more fiber is introduced. This introduced fiber picks up the twist and becomes yarn. Later the spinning wheel was developed which allowed a continuous and faster yarn production. Spinning wheels are either foot or hand powered. Modern powered spinning, originally done by water or steam power but now done by electricity, is vastly faster than hand-spinning.Hobby spinners spin their own yarn in order to control specific yarn qualities and produce yarn not commercially available. They also may spin for self-sufficiency, sense of accomplishment or sense of connection to history and the land. And, of course, for the meditative qualities of spinning.
Materials that can be used to create yarn fall into three broad classes: plant, animal, and synthetic.
Spinning is also a form of exercise by pedaling very fast on a bicycle, especially a stationary training bike. The concept was created in the 1980s by Jonathan Goldberg.
- Plant materials: cotton, flax (to produce linen), hemp, raffia, yucca, coconut husk, ...
- Animal materials: wool, goat (angora or cashmere), rabbit (angora), llama, alpaca, dog, camel, silk, ...
- Synthetic materials: nylon, rayon, acetate, mylar, ...
- Mineral: asbestos, but not very often
See spin (politics) for the practice of "spinning" a news story for PR value.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spinning."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SPURT | English | Spinning unguided rocket trajectory | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: SpinningSynonym: whirling (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rotation | Noun: rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration, turning about an axis, turning aound an axis, circulation, roll; circumrotation, circumvolution, circumgyration; volutation, circination, turbination, pirouette, convolution. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Or is it so possible that your head is spinning like a top (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) He's spinning the ball on his finger (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Here we go, the world is spinning. When it stops, it's just beginning (The Ring; writing credit: Ehren Kruger) Grace, my head is spinning! and not in a good way. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) It's true that Mavis and Sybil have ways that are winning And Prudence and Gwendolyn set your heart spinning Phoebe's delightful, Maude is disarming (Mary Poppins; writing credit: P.L. Travers; Bill Walsh) | |
Lyrics | MY HEAD'S SPINNING, BOY I'M IN A DAZE (Never Ever; performing artist: All Saints) And we're spinning with the stars above (Heaven Is A Place On Earth; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle) Look at us spinning out in (The Space Between; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) Yo, yo, yo, yo the only thing Bleek spinning is (Hey Papi; performing artist: Jay-Z) I was spinning free (Sweetness; performing artist: Jimmy Eat World) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Spinning for Silvers and Steelhead (1949) The Whirr of the Spinning Wheel (1914) Clowns Spinning Hats (1900) Mr. Maskeleyne Spinning Plates and Basins (1896) Whirlwind Gun Spinning (1894) | |
Song Titles | Spinning Wheel (performing artist: Sweat and Tears Blood) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pictured is an automatic spinning device to mix tissue culture medium. Tissue culture medium provides nourishment to growing cells. In some of the slides, the hand of the scientist is visible. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | 53 year old female, employed 10 years in the spinning department of a goat-hair processing mill. Cutaneous anthrax lesion on right cheek; lesion as seen on 11th day. Credit: CDC. |
 | 27 year old white female with cutaneous anthrax on right forearm; patient had worked in a spinning department of a goat hair processing plant for 3 years; lesion as seen on 12th day. Credit: CDC. |  | Astronomers have found a spiral galaxy that may be spinning to the beat of a different cosmic ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Each of these swirling clouds is a result of a meteorological phenomenon known as a Karman vortex. These vortices appeared over Alexander Selkirk Island in the southern Pacific Ocean. Rising precipitously from the surrounding waters, the island's highest point is nearly a mile (1.6 km) above sea level. As wind-driven clouds encounter this obstacle, they flow around it to form these large, spinning eddies. Credit: NASA. |  | This image shows a spinning formation of ice, clouds, and low-lying fog off the eastern coast of Greenland. Credit: NASA. |
 | U.S. Air Force Drill Team member Staff Sgt. Sam Edmonds walks between a column of spinning rifles during the NFL Players Huddle Party at MacDill AFB, Fla., Jan. 23, 2001. People and aircraft from various bases around the nation to include a Charleston bas. |  | A display of spinning at the Pioneer Festival at the NHOTIC. Credit: BLM Staff. |
 | A cultural event replicating an old camp site in the middle of the rangeland. It looks like a tent city. People are dressed as pioneers showing old chairs, spinning wheels, and other exhibits. Credit: Unknown. |  | [Witchcraft or spinning the web of fate] / Hans Weiditz. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Spinning" by Red Bull Commentary: "Steam fair 5." | "Record Spinning" by Neil Smith Commentary: "A photo of a record spinning on my technics." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Roulette wheel spinning and slowing. | | Reel spinning. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some people may experience vision problems and vertigo—a feeling that the world is spinning. (references) | |
A balance disorder is a disturbance that causes an individual to feel unsteady, giddy, woozy, or have a sensation of movement, spinning, or floating. (references) | ||
Business | Thirty-one large public entities account for 100% of spinning, 70% of weaving, 40% of knitting, and 30% of the garment manufacturing industry. (references) | |
However, due to continued specialization of the market and greater investment requirements, many French companies are spinning off their manufacturing subsidiaries. (references) | ||
The textile industry in Egypt covers the entire spectrum of cotton processing operations, including spinning, weaving, converting, knitting, and garment manufacture. (references) | ||
Economic History | Vietnam | Cotton spinning is expanding as export markets demand higher-value garments and products. (references) |
Mauritius | Consequently, spinning activities are expected to increase substantially in the coming years. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Bangladesh currently has 148 spinning mills, 151 weaving mills, and 282 dying/finishing mills. (references) | |
Political Economy | EGYPT | The only industries exempted from full immediate implementation are the gold, woodworking, and spinning & weaving industries. (references) |
Trade | Kenya | This rationalization of import duties also includes a reduction of import tariffs on certain capital equipment from 25 percent to 15 percent; duty on specified raw materials used mainly in the plastics and the spinning & weaving sectors was also reduced from 15 percent to 5 percent. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | Female prisoners clean toilets and also are involved in tailoring, cleaning, or spinning and sorting wool to be used in the manufacture of carpets and sweaters. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Spinning" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.13% of the time. "Spinning" is used about 570 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 75.13% | 429 | 13,364 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.73% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.06% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.08% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Total | 100.00% | 570 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Greece | Naoussa Spinning Mills SA | India | Niwas Spinning Mills Limited |
| Japan | Daito Woolen Spinning & Weaving Co Ltd | South Korea | Choong Nam Spinning Co. Ltd. |
| Taiwan | Sinkong Spinning | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "spinning": be spinning ♦ dry spinning ♦ fishing with spinning rod ♦ mule spinning machine ♦ selfacting spinning mule ♦ spinning a cocoon ♦ spinning band ♦ spinning frame ♦ spinning gland ♦ spinning house ♦ spinning jenny ♦ spinning machine ♦ spinning mill ♦ spinning mite ♦ spinning reel ♦ spinning rod ♦ spinning top ♦ spinning wheel. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "spinning": spinning-facto, spinning-factory, spinning-house, spinning-jenny, spinning-machine, spinning-mills, spinning-rods, spinning-rooms, spinning-top, spinning-tops, spinning-wheel. | |
Ending with "spinning": cotton-spinning, money-spinning. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
spinning rim | 2,982 | spinning top | 59 |
spinning wheels | 1,217 | chrome spinning wheels | 57 |
spinning | 674 | 18 rim spinning | 57 |
motorcycle rim spinning | 222 | cheap rim spinning | 51 |
motorcycle spinning wheels | 168 | rim spinning wire | 48 |
spinning wheel | 141 | spinning shoes | 46 |
spinning wheels wire | 133 | chopper spinning wheels | 42 |
spinning bike | 115 | 20 inch spinning rim | 40 |
cap hub spinning | 115 | davin spinning wheels | 40 |
car rim spinning | 109 | rim spinning video | 36 |
metal spinning | 95 | keep rim spinning | 33 |
rim spinning sprewell | 94 | 18 inch rim spinning | 29 |
spinning jenny | 80 | spinning certification | 27 |
keep rim spinning that | 76 | spinning wool | 26 |
chrome spinning rim | 67 | spinning spoke | 26 |
spinning class | 65 | bike rim spinning | 25 |
spinning reel | 62 | kit rim spinning | 25 |
rim spinning wheels | 62 | picture rim spinning | 23 |
car spinning wheels | 62 | chopper rim spinning | 23 |
spinning exercise | 60 | spinning custom wheels | 23 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "spinning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tjerrje, tjerrës (spinner, spinneret). (various references) | |
Arabic | مصنع غزل, غزل (flirtation, gallant, spin, string, throw, yarn), صيد بالطعم, الغزل. (various references) | |
Basque | ziba (spinning-top). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чекрък (spinning wheel, wheel, wheel and axle, winch), предачна машина (spinner, spinning jenny), изправителен дом за жени (spinning-house). (various references) | |
Chinese | 转动 (rotate, rotated, rotating, Spun, Trundled, Trundling, turned, turning, twirl, Wheeled, Wheeling), 紡織 . (various references) | |
Czech | přádelna (cotton mill, spinning mill, spinning-factory), kolovrat (spinning wheel). (various references) | |
Danish | spinding, snoning (amount of twist, lay, snake, snaking, stitch, torsion, turn, twist, twisting), slip (briefs, creep, draft, rip-in, slip, slippage, slipping), optrykning (spin forming), drejning (spin, spin effect, torsion, turnery, turning). (various references) | |
Dutch | spinnen (spin), slip (briefs), slag (accomplishment, action, agony, battle, blow, expertness, fight, grasp, kind, knock, movement, scuffle, skilfulness, skill, skillfulness, snare, sort, struggle, trap, turn), forceren (force, impose, violate), draaien (dial, pivot, roll, turn, turn around, turn round), draai (turn). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝpinrado (spinning wheel, spinning-wheel). (various references) | |
Finnish | kehruu. (various references) | |
French | filature, filage. (various references) | |
German | spinnerei (crazy behavior, crazy thing, garbage, mill, rubbish, spinning mill), Spinnen (be cracker, be crazy, be nutty, be screwy, concoct, invent, make it up, plot, rave, spiders, spin, talk rubbish, weave). (various references) | |
Greek | κλώση. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מטוה (spun yarn), טויה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | forog velem a világ (my brain reels, my head is spinning, my head reels), fonoda (spinning-mill), az ütéstől felbukfencezett (the blow sent him spinning). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengantihan (spinning mill). (various references) | |
Italian | filatura (filature). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 製糸 (filature, silk reeling), 紡糸 (spun cotton), 紡績 , 紡績 , 上がり (advance income, after, ascent, completion, crop yield, death, ex, finish, freshly-drawn green tea, rise, slope, stop). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぼうせき, ぼうし (a certain publication, cap worn by masked dancer, certain person, check, dead child, eye, hat, looking aside, looking from the side, one's late elder sister, prevention, pupil, spun cotton, unnamed person), せいし (authentic history, check, chief delegate, control, family name, filature, full name, heir, history, imperial command, inhibition, life and death, looking straight ahead, meditation, oath, paper making or manufacturing, pledge, repose, restraint, senior envoy, silk reeling, sperm, standing still, stillness, successor, viewing sincerely, vow, written oath), あがり (advance income, after, ascent, completion, crop yield, death, ex, finish, freshly-drawn green tea, rise, slope, stop). (various references) | |
Korean | 회전시킴. (various references) | |
Manx | sneeu (spin), queeyllaraght (spin). (various references) | |
Maya | haxab (spinning wheel). (various references) | |
Occitan | baudufa (spinning-top, top). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inningspay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | movimento giratório (spin, swinging), fiação (mill). (various references) | |
Romanian | roatã (circle, rack, ring, spinning wheel, wheel), prima roatã de tors (Jenny, spinning jenny), filaturã (mill, spinning mill, spinning-facto). (various references) | |
Romany | chakrùk (spinning wheel). (various references) | |
Russian | крутить прядение прядильный. (various references) | |
Scottish | snìomh (a ringlet, a twist, spin, spin; wind as yarn, twine, twining, twisting), toinneamh (the miller's share of meal for grinding, twining, twisting), abhras. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | upredanje (filature), predenje (purr). (various references) | |
Spanish | hilado (spun, yarn). (various references) | |
Swedish | spinning (filature), spinnfiske, spånad. (various references) | |
Turkish | döndürme (turning, twisting, veer, winding, wring). (various references) | |
Turkmen | perik (spinning wheel), зarh (spinning wheel, wheel). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спінінг, завивання кокона, пряжа (yarn), прядіння, прядильний (textile). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự xe chỉ sự xoay tròn, sự quay tròn (spin). (various references) | |
Welsh | troell (spinning-wheel, wheel). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | circuitu, circuitum, circuitus, colo, colorum, colosensium, multicoloria. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spinning": spinnings. (additional references) | |
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"Spinning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spamning, speaning, spining, spinnen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spinning" (pronounced spi"ning) |
| 5 | -p i" n i ng | pinning. |
| 4 | -i" n i ng | beginning, binning, Dinning, finning, ginning, grinning, inning, sinning, thinning, winning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, bemoaning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, glistening, governing, greening, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-n-n-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: innings, pinning, sinning, sniping. | |
-2 letters: inning, pining, siping. | |
-3 letters: piing, pings. | |
-4 letters: gins, gips, inns, nips, nisi, pigs, ping, pins, sign, sing, snip, spin. | |
-5 letters: gin, gip, inn, ins, nip, pig, pin, pis, psi, sin, sip. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-n-n-n-p-s" | |
+1 letter: spinnings. | |
+2 letters: inspanning, mispenning, pensioning. | |
+3 letters: innerspring, misplanning, uninspiring. | |
+4 letters: antispending, sandpainting. | |
+5 letters: nondiapausing, pretensioning, sandpaintings, underpinnings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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