Spinning vs Spinster - What's the difference?
spinning | spinster |
Rapidly rotating on an axis; whirling.
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The motion of something that spins.
* 2005 , Geoffrey Hemphill, Nico and the Unseen - A Voyage Into the Fourth Dimension (page 258)
The process of converting fibres into yarn or thread.
Indoor cycling.
A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
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One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spin master.
(obsolete) Someone whose occupation was spinning thread.
* ~1601 , William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , act II, scene IV:
(obsolete) A woman of evil life and character; so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
(rare) A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between spinning and spinster
is that spinning is the motion of something that spins while spinster is a woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.As a adjective spinning
is rapidly rotating on an axis; whirling.As a verb spinning
is .spinning
English
Adjective
(-)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)- these uncontrollable spinnings of the head
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* spinning frame * spinning jenny * spinning mule * spinning wheel ----spinster
English
(wikipedia spinster)Noun
(en noun)- If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster , she may abate the writ.
- The spinsters and the knitters in the sun.