Spinner vs Woman - What's the difference?
spinner | woman |
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.
An adult female human.
* Bible, (w) 2:22:
* (John Ledyard) (1751-1789)
* 1887 , Helen Campbell, Prisoners of poverty: their trades and their lives , p.120:
(lb) All females collectively; womankind.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
* 1997 , Bob Grant, Let's Be Heard , p.42:
* 2011 , Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In , p.109:
A wife (or sometimes a or girlfriend).
* 1914 , , Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays , chapter 7: "Of Being and Not-Being":
A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing.
* 2004 , Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount , p.70:
A female attendant or servant.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To staff with female labor.
* 1956 , Rex Stout, Three Witnesses , The Viking Press, page 54
* 1990 , Stephen King, The stand: the complete & uncut edition
* 2010 , Julia Glass, The Widower's Tale , page 77
To make effeminate or womanish.
* 1598 , , III. ii. 50:
To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
* 1603 , , III. iv. 191:
As nouns the difference between spinner and woman
is that spinner is agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins while woman is an adult female human.As a verb woman is
to staff with female labor.spinner
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* ring spinnerAnagrams
* ----woman
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(wikipedia woman)Alternative forms
* womon, womyn, wymyn * wimmen, wimmenNoun
(women)- And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman .
- I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men
- But this woman' is a nice German ' woman that fell on the ice and sprained her ankle last winter, and we saw to her well as we could till she got better.
- For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?
- Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.
- And then, when he lies with his woman , the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.
- Perhaps my problem is that I am a cat woman . I can't imagine any finicky feline (and they all are that at one time or another) slobbering over anyone, even a beloved owner, the way a dog does.
- By her woman I sent your message.
Synonyms
* see * female * ladyAntonyms
* (age ): girl * (gender ): manDerived terms
* cleaning woman * firewoman * gentlewoman * kept woman * little woman * medicine woman * old woman * other woman * policewoman * womanish * womanly * womanhood * woman suffrage * woman's work * womenfolk * womenhood * women’s libVerb
(en verb)- Apparently the Sixty-ninth Street office of Bagby Answers, Inc., was being womaned for the day from other offices.
- Gus Dinsmore, the public beach parking lot attendent, said he guessed that so many cars must be just stopped dead along the road that even those manned (or womaned ) by able drivers would be unable to move.
- The information desk is now manned (womaned ) by someone whose main job is to help you reserve time slots for the computers or guide you through the arduous process of “logging on.”
- I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief / That the first face of neither on the start / Can woman me unto't.
- And think it no addition, nor my wish, / To have him see me woman'd .