spinning

[ spin-ing ]

noun

1. Textiles.
   1. the act or process of converting staple or short lengths of fiber, as cotton or rayon, into continuous yarn or thread.
   2. the extrusion of a solution of fiber-forming substances through holes in a spinneret to form filaments.
2. 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.
3. 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

¹

/ ˈspɪnɪŋ /

noun

1. a form of high-intensity exercise using exercise bikes

spinning

²

/ ˈspɪnɪŋ /

noun

1. 1. the act or process of spinning
   2. ( as modifier )

      spinning yarn

2. 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

Other Words From

• spinning·ly adverb
• non·spinning noun adjective
• un·spinning adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of spinning¹

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; spin, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

The key hardware ingredient is a spinning laser fixed to the roof, called lidar, which provides the car with a pair of eyes to see the world.

From Singularity Hub 

The real speed, however, comes from the custom non-volatile memory express SSD storage, which can read and write dozens of times faster than a spinning hard drive.

From Popular-Science

Instead, it may resemble a spinning top, like Bennu and Ryugu, two even smaller asteroids that spacecraft have recently visited.

From Science News

Two minutes of top spinning leaves me feeling much better than the ten minutes of Instagram scrolling that used to occupy my writing breaks.

From Outside Online

Retailers can replicate this experience by adding smooth spinning 360-degree product views, allowing viewers to turn the item with their fingers or mouse.

From Search Engine Land

That distant whirring sound you hear is a long-dead Greek physician spinning in his grave.

From The Daily Beast

He's dazzling, fielding questions, spinning out anecdotes and limericks, sounding 35 and hungry for publicity.

From The Daily Beast

The powerful forces of gravity and magnetism channel matter into huge flattened spinning platters known as accretion disks.

From The Daily Beast

I always visualized history,” he recalled, “but her spinning native cotton with that wheel transported me into it.

From The Daily Beast

To that regard, Mulaney opens with its star spinning a longer joke-yarn based on something that had really happened to him.

From The Daily Beast

It was a mighty simple transaction, but it produced some startling results for me, that same coin-spinning.

From Project Gutenberg

Remember how often you used to scold me for tangling the yarn, when you were spinning on the great wheel.

From Project Gutenberg

Lawrence returned the fire, and the ball struck Jerry's revolver and sent it spinning.

From Project Gutenberg

They reached the Black Caon road and went spinning into it, some of the wheels in the air.

From Project Gutenberg

The smack was well clear of the fleets and spinning along nicely to southward on a dark night, and Jack was at the wheel.

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Related Words

• orbiting
• spinning
• swirling
• whirling