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spin·ning

(spĭn′ĭng)

1. The process of making fibrous material into yarn or thread.

2. The act of fishing with a light rod and a reel having a bail or similar device that guides the line around a stationary spool and that can be disengaged to let the line run freely, as when casting. Also called spin casting, spin fishing.

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spinning

(ˈspɪnɪŋ)

1. (Textiles)

a. the act or process of spinning

b. (as modifier): spinning yarn.

2. (Angling) 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

(ˈspɪnɪŋ)

(Team Sports, other than specified) trademark a form of high-intensity exercise using exercise bikes

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spin•ning

(ˈspɪn ɪŋ)

n.

a. the act or process of twisting fibers, as cotton or rayon, into yarn or thread.

b. the extrusion of a fiber-forming solution through a spinneret to form filaments.

2. 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. the act or technique of fishing with a spinning reel and rod.

[1250–1300]

spinning

heckle - First a "flax comb" for splitting and straightening the fibers for spinning; its metaphorical sense developed from its verb form, "to mangle by cutting, to cut roughly."
distaff side, spear side - The female side of a family is the distaff side—the distaff being a stick used for holding yarn when spinning; the male side is the spear side.
fouette - A spectacular pirouette in which the ballerina whips her raised leg around in an eggbeater motion while spinning on the other leg.
turngiddy - Means dizzy from spinning around.

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Noun

spinning - creating thread

handicraft - a craft that requires skillful hands

Translations

essorage

filante filatura

spinning

[ˈspɪnɪŋ]

A. N (= act) → hilado m; (= art) → hilandería f, arte m de hilar

B. CPD spinning jenny N → máquina f de hilar de husos múltiples
spinning mill N → hilandería f
spinning top N → peonza f, trompo m
spinning wheel N → rueca f or torno m de hilar

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

spinning

[ˈspɪnɪŋ] n [thread] (by hand) → filage m; (by machine) → filature fspinning top n → toupie fspinning wheel n → rouet mspin-off n

(= unexpected benefit) → avantage m inattendu (= by-product) → sous-produit m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

spinning

n → Spinnen nt

spinning

in cpds → Spinn-;

spinning jenny

n → Jennymaschine f

spinning mill

n → Spinnerei f

spinning top

n → Kreisel m

spinning wheel

n → Spinnrad nt

spinning works

n sing or pl → Spinnerei f, → Spinnstofffabrik f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

spinning

[ˈspɪnɪŋ] n → filatura

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Each in his turn went up to the priest (they were all within a large circular railing) and bowed profoundly and then went spinning away deliriously and took his appointed place in the circle, and continued to spin.

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To all appearance Molly had got through her after-dinner work in an exemplary manner, had "cleaned herself" with great dispatch, and now came to ask, submissively, if she should sit down to her spinning till milking time.

There's a piece o' sheeting I could give you as that squinting Kitty spun--she was a rare girl to spin, for all she squinted, and the children couldn't abide her; and, you know, the spinning's going on constant, and there's new linen wove twice as fast as the old wears out.

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I am a nun from the Spinning Convent,[10] and my mother when she died left me this apple.

In the cavern sat an old woman spinning. This was the cloister of the nuns, and the old woman was the Abbess.

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In the door there was a golden key, and when she turned it the door sprang open, and there sat an old lady spinning away very busily.

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It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.

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Take care, La Falourdel, that he doth not knock at your door.' One evening I was spinning on my wheel, there comes a knock at my door; I ask who it is.

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"But can you sing standing on your head, with a top spinning on your left foot, and a sabre balanced on your right?"

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Then she went to the ugly brown spiders, and in gentle words told them, how in Fairy Land their kindred spun all the elfin cloth, and in return the Fairies gave them food, and then how happily they lived among the green leaves, spinning garments for their neigbbors.

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At the same time, the schooner began to turn upon her heel, spinning slowly, end for end, across the current.

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And then, skipping, running, and capering, the girl reached the town, but before going into the house she called out at the door, "Come out, mother Teresa, come out, come out; here's a gentleman with letters and other things from my good father." At these words her mother Teresa Panza came out spinning a bundle of flax, in a grey petticoat (so short was it one would have fancied "they to her shame had cut it short"), a grey bodice of the same stuff, and a smock.