Actress vs Spinner - What's the difference?
actress | spinner |
* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 290:
A female actor on the stage or in films.
* 2011 , "Not going quietly", The Economist , 27 Jan 2011:
Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
A conical cover at the center of some aircraft propellers.
(obsolete) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
(slang, cinema) Used primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
(computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
(cricket) A spin bowler.
(fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
A goatsucker.
A spinneret.
A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
As nouns the difference between actress and spinner
is that actress is a female doer or "actor" (in a general sense) while spinner is agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.actress
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Alternative forms
* actoressNoun
(es)- My mental anguish, and the dreadful scenes in which I had been an actress , advanced the period of my labour.
- Court documents appear to show that Ian Edmondson, a senior News of the World journalist, had authorised Mr Mulcaire to hack phones belonging to Sienna Miller, an actress .