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Reeling vs Spinning - What's the difference?

reeling | spinning |

As verbs the difference between reeling and spinning

is that reeling is present participle of lang=en while spinning is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between reeling and spinning

is that reeling is the motion of something that reels while spinning is the motion of something that spins.

As an adjective spinning is

rapidly rotating on an axis; whirling.

reeling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that reels.
  • * (Jeremy Taylor)
    • Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings , and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.

    Anagrams

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    spinning

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Rapidly rotating on an axis; whirling.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine= citation , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning , cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that spins.
  • * 2005 , Geoffrey Hemphill, Nico and the Unseen - A Voyage Into the Fourth Dimension (page 258)
    • these uncontrollable spinnings of the head
  • The process of converting fibres into yarn or thread.
  • Indoor cycling.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * spinning frame * spinning jenny * spinning mule * spinning wheel ----