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pinning
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Pinning
(gcide) | Pin \Pin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pinned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pinning.] [See Pin, n.]
To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a
garment; to pin boards together. "As if she would pin her to
her heart." --Shak.
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To pin one's faith upon, to depend upon; to trust to.
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pinning
(wn) | pinning
n 1: a mutual promise of a couple not to date anyone else; on
college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a
fraternity pin |
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spinning
(mass) | spinning
- otáčanie |
head is spinning
(encz) | head is spinning, |
spinning
(encz) | spinning,otáčení n: Zdeněk Brožspinning,předení n: Zdeněk Brož |
spinning frame
(encz) | spinning frame, n: |
spinning jenny
(encz) | spinning jenny, |
spinning machine
(encz) | spinning machine, n: |
spinning rod
(encz) | spinning rod, n: |
spinning top
(encz) | spinning top,káča n: dětská hračka metan |
spinning wheel
(encz) | spinning wheel,kolovrat |
spinning-wheel
(encz) | spinning-wheel,kolovrátek |
underpinning
(encz) | underpinning,podezdívka n: Zdeněk Brožunderpinning,podpírání n: Zdeněk Brož |
yarn-spinning
(encz) | yarn-spinning, adj: |
Pinning
(gcide) | Pin \Pin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pinned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pinning.] [See Pin, n.]
To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a
garment; to pin boards together. "As if she would pin her to
her heart." --Shak.
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To pin one's faith upon, to depend upon; to trust to.
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Spinning
(gcide) | Spin \Spin\ (sp[i^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spun(Archaic imp.
Span); p. pr. & vb. n. Spinning.] [AS. spinnan; akin to
D. & G. spinnen, Icel. & Sw. spinna, Dan. spinde, Goth.
spinnan, and probably to E. span. [root]170. Cf. Span, v.
t., Spider.]
1. To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or
machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin
goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a
fibrous material.
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All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence
did but fill Ithaca full of moths. --Shak.
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2. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by
degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to
spin out large volumes on a subject.
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Do you mean that story is tediously spun out?
--Sheridan.
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3. To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day
in idleness.
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By one delay after another they spin out their whole
lives. --L'Estrange.
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4. To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to
spin a top.
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5. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads
produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid,
which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said
of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
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6. (Mech.) To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow
form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it
with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal
revolves, as in a lathe.
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To spin a yarn (Naut.), to tell a story, esp. a long or
fabulous tale.
To spin hay (Mil.), to twist it into ropes for convenient
carriage on an expedition.
To spin street yarn, to gad about gossiping. [Collog.]
[1913 Webster]Spinning \Spin"ning\,
a. & n. from Spin.
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Spinning gland (Zool.), one of the glands which form the
material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other
larvae.
Spinning house, formerly a common name for a house of
correction in England, the women confined therein being
employed in spinning.
Spinning jenny (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning
wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles
revolving simultaneously.
Spinning mite (Zool.), 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.
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Spinning gland
(gcide) | Spinning \Spin"ning\,
a. & n. from Spin.
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Spinning gland (Zool.), one of the glands which form the
material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other
larvae.
Spinning house, formerly a common name for a house of
correction in England, the women confined therein being
employed in spinning.
Spinning jenny (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning
wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles
revolving simultaneously.
Spinning mite (Zool.), 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.
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Spinning house
(gcide) | Spinning \Spin"ning\,
a. & n. from Spin.
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Spinning gland (Zool.), one of the glands which form the
material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other
larvae.
Spinning house, formerly a common name for a house of
correction in England, the women confined therein being
employed in spinning.
Spinning jenny (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning
wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles
revolving simultaneously.
Spinning mite (Zool.), 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.
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spinning jenny
(gcide) | Jenny \Jen"ny\, n. [A corruption of gin an engine; influenced by
Jenny, the proper name. See Gin an engine, and cf.
Ginny-carriage.]
A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used
in factories. Also called spinning jenny.
[1913 Webster]Spinning \Spin"ning\,
a. & n. from Spin.
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Spinning gland (Zool.), one of the glands which form the
material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other
larvae.
Spinning house, formerly a common name for a house of
correction in England, the women confined therein being
employed in spinning.
Spinning jenny (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning
wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles
revolving simultaneously.
Spinning mite (Zool.), 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.
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Spinning jenny
(gcide) | Jenny \Jen"ny\, n. [A corruption of gin an engine; influenced by
Jenny, the proper name. See Gin an engine, and cf.
Ginny-carriage.]
A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used
in factories. Also called spinning jenny.
[1913 Webster]Spinning \Spin"ning\,
a. & n. from Spin.
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Spinning gland (Zool.), one of the glands which form the
material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other
larvae.
Spinning house, formerly a common name for a house of
correction in England, the women confined therein being
employed in spinning.
Spinning jenny (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning
wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles
revolving simultaneously.
Spinning mite (Zool.), 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.
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Spinning mite
(gcide) | Spinning \Spin"ning\,
a. & n. from Spin.
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Spinning gland (Zool.), one of the glands which form the
material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other
larvae.
Spinning house, formerly a common name for a house of
correction in England, the women confined therein being
employed in spinning.
Spinning jenny (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning
wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles
revolving simultaneously.
Spinning mite (Zool.), 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.
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Spinning wheel
(gcide) | Spinning \Spin"ning\,
a. & n. from Spin.
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Spinning gland (Zool.), one of the glands which form the
material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other
larvae.
Spinning house, formerly a common name for a house of
correction in England, the women confined therein being
employed in spinning.
Spinning jenny (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning
wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles
revolving simultaneously.
Spinning mite (Zool.), 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.
[1913 Webster]Wheel \Wheel\ (hw[=e]l), n. [OE. wheel, hweol, AS. hwe['o]l,
hweogul, hweowol; akin to D. wiel, Icel. hv[=e]l, Gr.
ky`klos, Skr. cakra; cf. Icel. hj[=o]l, Dan. hiul, Sw. hjul.
[root]218. Cf. Cycle, Cyclopedia.]
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1. A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk,
whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes
or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted
the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles,
in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a
wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc.
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The gasping charioteer beneath the wheel
Of his own car. --Dryden.
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2. Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting
of, a wheel. Specifically:
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(a) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.
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(b) An instrument of torture formerly used.
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His examination is like that which is made by
the rack and wheel. --Addison.
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Note: This mode of torture is said to have been first
employed in Germany, in the fourteenth century. The
criminal was laid on a cart wheel with his legs and
arms extended, and his limbs in that posture were
fractured with an iron bar. In France, where its use
was restricted to the most atrocious crimes, the
criminal was first laid on a frame of wood in the form
of a St. Andrew's cross, with grooves cut transversely
in it above and below the knees and elbows, and the
executioner struck eight blows with an iron bar, so as
to break the limbs in those places, sometimes finishing
by two or three blows on the chest or stomach, which
usually put an end to the life of the criminal, and
were hence called coups-de-grace -- blows of mercy. The
criminal was then unbound, and laid on a small wheel,
with his face upward, and his arms and legs doubled
under him, there to expire, if he had survived the
previous treatment. --Brande.
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(c) (Naut.) A circular frame having handles on the
periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the
tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder
for the purpose of steering.
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(d) (Pottery) A potter's wheel. See under Potter.
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Then I went down to the potter's house, and,
behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. --Jer.
xviii. 3.
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Turn, turn, my wheel! This earthen jar
A touch can make, a touch can mar. --Longfellow.
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(e) (Pyrotechny) A firework which, while burning, is
caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the
escaping gases.
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(f) (Poetry) The burden or refrain of a song.
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Note: "This meaning has a low degree of authority, but is
supposed from the context in the few cases where the
word is found." --Nares.
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You must sing a-down a-down,
An you call him a-down-a.
O, how the wheel becomes it! --Shak.
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3. A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.
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4. A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form;
a disk; an orb. --Milton.
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5. A turn revolution; rotation; compass.
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According to the common vicissitude and wheel of
things, the proud and the insolent, after long
trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled
upon themselves. --South.
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[He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel.
--Milton.
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A wheel within a wheel, or Wheels within wheels, a
complication of circumstances, motives, etc.
Balance wheel. See in the Vocab.
Bevel wheel, Brake wheel, Cam wheel, Fifth wheel,
Overshot wheel, Spinning wheel, etc. See under Bevel,
Brake, etc.
Core wheel. (Mach.)
(a) A mortise gear.
(b) A wheel having a rim perforated to receive wooden
cogs; the skeleton of a mortise gear.
Measuring wheel, an odometer, or perambulator.
Wheel and axle (Mech.), one of the elementary machines or
mechanical powers, consisting of a wheel fixed to an axle,
and used for raising great weights, by applying the power
to the circumference of the wheel, and attaching the
weight, by a rope or chain, to that of the axle. Called
also axis in peritrochio, and perpetual lever, -- the
principle of equilibrium involved being the same as in the
lever, while its action is continuous. See {Mechanical
powers}, under Mechanical.
Wheel animal, or Wheel animalcule (Zool.), any one of
numerous species of rotifers having a ciliated disk at the
anterior end.
Wheel barometer. (Physics) See under Barometer.
Wheel boat, a boat with wheels, to be used either on water
or upon inclined planes or railways.
Wheel bug (Zool.), a large North American hemipterous
insect (Prionidus cristatus) which sucks the blood of
other insects. So named from the curious shape of the
prothorax.
Wheel carriage, a carriage moving on wheels.
Wheel chains, or Wheel ropes (Naut.), the chains or ropes
connecting the wheel and rudder.
Wheel cutter, a machine for shaping the cogs of gear
wheels; a gear cutter.
Wheel horse, one of the horses nearest to the wheels, as
opposed to a leader, or forward horse; -- called also
wheeler.
Wheel lathe, a lathe for turning railway-car wheels.
Wheel lock.
(a) A letter lock. See under Letter.
(b) A kind of gunlock in which sparks were struck from a
flint, or piece of iron pyrites, by a revolving wheel.
(c) A kind of brake a carriage.
Wheel ore (Min.), a variety of bournonite so named from the
shape of its twin crystals. See Bournonite.
Wheel pit (Steam Engine), a pit in the ground, in which the
lower part of the fly wheel runs.
Wheel plow, or Wheel plough, a plow having one or two
wheels attached, to render it more steady, and to regulate
the depth of the furrow.
Wheel press, a press by which railway-car wheels are forced
on, or off, their axles.
Wheel race, the place in which a water wheel is set.
Wheel rope (Naut.), a tiller rope. See under Tiller.
Wheel stitch (Needlework), a stitch resembling a spider's
web, worked into the material, and not over an open space.
--Caulfeild & S. (Dict. of Needlework).
Wheel tree (Bot.), a tree (Aspidosperma excelsum) of
Guiana, which has a trunk so curiously fluted that a
transverse section resembles the hub and spokes of a
coarsely made wheel. See Paddlewood.
Wheel urchin (Zool.), any sea urchin of the genus Rotula
having a round, flat shell.
Wheel window (Arch.), a circular window having radiating
mullions arranged like the spokes of a wheel. Cf. {Rose
window}, under Rose.
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Underpinning
(gcide) | Underpinning \Un"der*pin`ning\, n.
1. The act of one who underpins; the act of supporting by
stones, masonry, or the like.
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2. (Arch.)
(a) That by which a building is underpinned; the material
and construction used for support, introduced beneath
a wall already constructed.
(b) The foundation, esp. of a frame house. [Local, U. S.]
[1913 Webster]Underpin \Un`der*pin"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Underpinned; p.
pr. & vb. n. Underpinning.]
1. To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a
building, on which it is to rest.
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2. To support by some solid foundation; to place something
underneath for support.
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spinning
(wn) | spinning
n 1: creating thread |
spinning frame
(wn) | spinning frame
n 1: spinning machine that draws, twists, and winds yarn |
spinning jenny
(wn) | spinning jenny
n 1: an early spinning machine with multiple spindles |
spinning machine
(wn) | spinning machine
n 1: a textile machine for spinning yarn and thread |
spinning rod
(wn) | spinning rod
n 1: a fishing rod designed for casting a spinning lure |
spinning top
(wn) | spinning top
n 1: a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on
which it can be made to spin; "he got a bright red top and
string for his birthday" [syn: top, whirligig,
teetotum, spinning top] |
spinning wheel
(wn) | spinning wheel
n 1: a small domestic spinning machine with a single spindle
that is driven by hand or foot |
web-spinning mite
(wn) | web-spinning mite
n 1: a mite that spins a web |
yarn-spinning
(wn) | yarn-spinning
adj 1: inclined to tell long and involved stories (often of
incredible happenings) |
spinning pizza of death
(jargon) | Spinning Pizza of Death
n.
[OS X; common] The quartered-circle busy indicator on Mac OS X versions
before 10.2, after which it was replaced by a sort of rainbow pinwheel
thingy. It was analogous to the Microsoft Windows hourglass, but OS X
10.0's legendary slowness under the Aqua toolkit made this term rather more
evocative. See Death, X of.
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