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# spinning

«spinning» in Mova's school dictionary: **turning round and round quickly on the spot** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (-ing of spin: spin, spins, spun, spinning); adjective (spinning: a spinning top); noun (spinning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Spinning means turning round and round quickly on the spot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinning/#m1)

2) Spinning is making thread by twisting wool or cotton fibres, like on a spinning wheel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinning/#m2)

3) A spider is spinning when it makes silk to build a web. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinning/#m3)

4) If your head is spinning, you feel dizzy or very confused. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinning/#m4)

5) Spinning is also an exercise on a bike that stays in one place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinning/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science: the Earth is spinning on its axis, which makes day and night; one full spin takes about 24 hours. Tops, wheels, fans and washing machines spin. In history lessons, spinning wool into thread was a big job before factories. Safety: spinning fast can make you dizzy and fall; keep fingers and hair away from spinning machines and fan blades. Phrases: «spinning top», «spinning wheel», «my head is spinning», «spin round».

### examples

- The Earth is spinning all the time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinning/#x1)
- The top kept spinning on the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinning/#x2)
- We were spinning round on the playground roundabout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinning/#x3)
- The spider was spinning a web in the corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinning/#x4)
- After the ride my head was spinning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinning/#x5)
- Keep your fingers away from the spinning fan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinning/#x6)
- In the fairy tale, the princess pricked her finger on a spinning wheel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinning/#x7)
- The washing machine is spinning the clothes dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinning/#x8)
- A young housewife was spinning late one evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinning/#x9)

### note

Irregular past: «spin, spun, spun» (not «spinned»). Double the n: «spinning». Fact: we do not feel the Earth spinning because we move with it smoothly.

### In the corpora

- [Dancers avoid getting dizzy when spinning by spotting: fixing their eyes on one point and whipping the head round to find it again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/11/)
- [The Woman is very angry; she shuts her lips tight, takes up her spinning and says nothing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/30/)
- [Spinning round fast confuses the balance organ in your inner ear, and that is why you feel dizzy afterwards.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/11/)
- [Leo thought about the spinning, glowing, «almost!» box and went quiet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/8/)
- [Wheels appeared about 5,500 years ago; potters used spinning wheels, and soon wheels were put on carts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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