SPINNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spinning mean? 

• SPINNING (noun)
  The noun SPINNING has 1 sense:

1. creating thread

  Familiarity information: SPINNING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPINNING (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)

 Context examples 

The observations suggest that the roughly 4.5-billion-year-old comet, named 332P/Ikeya-Murakami, or Comet 332P, may be spinning so fast that material is ejected from its surface.

(Hubble Takes Close-up Look at Disintegrating Comet, NASA)

Rotational velocity measurements made with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) showed that the disk galaxy is spinning more than twice as fast as the Milky Way.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

If you feel that the room is spinning, you have vertigo.

(Dizziness and Vertigo, NIH)

A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

These data led to the discovery of PSR J1640-4631, a pulsar spinning five times per second — and the ultimate power source of both the high-energy X-rays and gamma rays.

(Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays, NASA)

Balance problems can make you feel unsteady or as if you were moving, spinning, or floating.

(Balance Problems, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

In this stage of their lives, the stars are likely spinning the fastest they ever will.

(Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster, NASA)

A sensation of lightheadedness, unsteadiness, turning, spinning or rocking.

(Dizziness, NCI Thesaurus)

With one blow of his paw he sent the Scarecrow spinning over and over to the edge of the road, and then he struck at the Tin Woodman with his sharp claws.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Geminga was finally identified in March 1991, when flickering X-rays picked up by Germany’s ROSAT mission revealed the source to be a pulsar spinning 4.2 times a second.

(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)