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# spinner

«spinner» in Mova's school dictionary: **a thing that spins, like a game spinner with a pointer…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a spinner, spinners)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A spinner is a thing that spins, like a game spinner with a pointer that shows a number or colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinner/#m1)

2) In cricket, a spinner is a bowler who makes the ball spin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinner/#m2)

3) A spinner is a person who spins wool or thread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinner/#m3)

4) A fidget spinner is a small toy that spins on your finger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinner/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths lessons spinners are used to learn probability: on a spinner with 4 equal parts, each colour has a 1 in 4 chance. In board games a spinner replaces dice. In sport (UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland), cricket spinners bowl slow, turning balls. Phrases: «spin the spinner», «fidget spinner», «leg spinner».

### examples

- Spin the spinner to see how many spaces to move. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinner/#x1)
- The spinner landed on red three times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinner/#x2)
- On a spinner with 6 equal parts, the chance of blue is 1 in 6. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinner/#x3)
- Australia's spinner took five wickets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinner/#x4)
- My fidget spinner whirls for a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinner/#x5)
- In the old days, spinners made thread from wool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinner/#x6)
- ‘Why didn’t you come?’ he asked the pretty spinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinner/#x7)

### note

Countable: spinner, spinners; double «n». In probability: the chance of a part = its size ÷ the whole. If the parts are not equal, the bigger part is more likely.

### In the corpora

- [A salad spinner flings the water outward and off the leaves through the holes; hospitals spin blood fast to separate it into layers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/15/)
- [Use a fidget spinner or small toy in class only if the teacher allows it, because toys can distract you and others.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/242-sharing-toys-and-board-games/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spinner» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinner/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.