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Definitions for spinning
ˈspɪn ɪŋspin·ning

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. spinningnoun

    creating thread

Wiktionary

  1. spinningnoun

    The process of converting fibres into yarn or thread.

  2. spinningadjective

    Rapidly rotating on an axis; whirling.

ChatGPT

  1. spinning

    Spinning refers to the action of rotating rapidly around an axis. This can apply to a variety of contexts such as a wheel spinning, a dancer spinning, or even planets spinning around their axis. In a broader sense, it can also refer to creating a thread by twisting fibers together, as in spinning wool.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Spinning

    of Spin

  2. Spinning

    a. & n. from Spin

Wikidata

  1. Spinning

    Spinning is a major part of the textile industry. It is part of the textile manufacturing process where three types of fibre are converted into yarn, then fabrics, which undergo finishing processes such as bleaching to become textiles. The textiles are then fabricated into clothes or other products. There are three industrial processes available to spin yarn, and a handicraft community who use hand spinning techniques. Spinning is the twisting together of drawn out strands of fibres to form yarn, though it is colloquially used to describe the process of drawing out, inserting the twist, and winding onto bobbins.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SPINNING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Spinning is ranked #125282 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Spinning surname appeared 137 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Spinning.

    97.8% or 134 total occurrences were White.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of spinning in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of spinning in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of spinning in a Sentence

  1. Alexander Hall:

    With where our sport’s been going, a lot of what we do, we call ‘spin to win,’ and, so, everyone is spinning as much as they can, to take a new approach and do a trick that has almost no rotation but is still really, really hard — it was really, really sweet.

  2. Mark Meadows:

    And yet, the way that some of the Democrats are spinning this, trying to spin some nefarious purpose.

  3. Scott Hampton:

    As long as they're spinning, they're making us money, in my view, it's not a fight ; it's what can we do that's good for the environment.

  4. Gore Vidal:

    The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

  5. Casey Lynn:

    He pulled out a revolver, threatened me and said,' You can't live without me,' he began playing Russian roulette, and in between spinning the revolver, he would hit me on the back of the head and try to bludgeon me.

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