Look up: SPINNING

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   Spinning
   Spinning is the process of twisting textile fibres into thread, so as to give them strength. The grip of the individual fibres prevents their sliding over one another.
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   spinning
   The process of making YARN from cotton FIBERS by drawing out and twisting the FIBERS into a thin strand.
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   spinning
   [adj] - rotating rapidly about an axis 2. [n] - creating thread
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   Spinning
   The process of turning a raw product (wool, nettle, flax) into a thread by twisting to bind the fibres together.
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   spinning
   Art of drawing out and twisting fibres (originally wool or linen) into a long thread, or yarn, by hand or machine. Synthetic fibres are spun when the liquid is forced through the holes of a...
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   Spinning
   A method of producing circular shapes such as bowls, plates and cups from sheet silver. The ancient Egyptians were the first to employ this process.
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   Spinning
   Drawing out and twisting fibres to make threads.
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   spinning
   rotation of the body,commonly,but not necessarily,about its centre of gravity.Usually reserved for rotation in the yaw plane,'tumbling' Category: Medicine • the technique of manufacturing filaments or fibres by forcing the molten plastics material through a spinnaret. Category: The chemical industry • may be divided into 3 essential steps: 1) reduction of the strand by roll...
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   spinning
   1 Metalworking technique used since Egyptian times to form hollow containers from sheet metal by pressing the metal against a rotating wooden core on a lathe. 2 Technique used to turn wool, cotton and flax into thread suitable for weaving using a spinning wheel, first seen in the 14thC.
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    Spinning
    Spin'ning adjective & noun from Spin . Spinning gland (Zoology) , one of the glands which form the material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other larvæ. -- Spinning house , formerly a common name for a house of correction in England, the women confined therein being employed in spinning. -- Spinning jenny (Machinery) , an ...
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    spinning
    From Spin. Spinning gland, the red spider. Spinning wheel, a machine for spinning yarn or thread, in which a wheel drives a single spindle, and is itself driven by the hand, or by the foot acting on a treadle. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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    spinning
    noun creating thread
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    Spinning
    • a. & n. from Spin. • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spin
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    spinning
    (from the article `hollowware`) ...sand, or other molds is used for metals unsuitable for hammer work. Bronze vessels and most pre-19th-century pewter objects have either been cast ... [3 related articles]
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    spinning
    in textiles, process of drawing out fibres from a mass and twisting them together to form a continuous thread or yarn. In man-made fibre production ... [9 related articles]
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    Spinning
    A method of working metal using a long handled tool and working the metal over a shaped chuck rotating in a lathe. Used for making tea and coffee pots, casters, jugs, bowls, etc. in the 18thC.
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    spinning
    
    1. creating thread
    2. revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
    3. stream in jets, of liquids
    4. cause to spin
    5. make up a story, as in
    6. form a web by making a thread, as of spiders
    7. work natural fibers into a thread
    8. narrate or give a detailed account of
    9. prolong or extend
    
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    spinning
    spinning, the drawing out, twisting, and winding of fibers into a continuous thread or yarn. From antiquity until the Industrial Revolution, spinning was a household industry. The roughly carded fiber was at first held in one hand and drawn out and twisted by the other hand. The earliest tools were ...
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