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spinner
(encz) | spinner,nahazovač n: Zdeněk Brož |
spinner
(encz) | spinner,přadlena n: Zdeněk Brož |
Spinner
(gcide) | Spinner \Spin"ner\ (sp[i^]n"n[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a
spinning machine.
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2. A spider. "Long-legged spinners." --Shak.
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3. (Zool.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise
it makes when darting through the air.
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4. (Zool.) A spinneret.
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Ring spinner, a machine for spinning, in which the twist,
given to the yarn by a revolving bobbin, is regulated by
the drag of a small metal loop which slides around a ring
encircling the bobbin, instead of by a throstle.
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spinner
(wn) | spinner
n 1: someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) [syn:
spinner, spinster, thread maker]
2: board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow
that is spun to determine the next move in the game
3: fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water |
spinner
(foldoc) | spin control
spinner
A type of input control available on most {graphical
user interfaces}, consisting of a text box or list control
with associated up and down buttons. The user can either type
in the text box or select an item from the list by clicking on it
directly, or they can repeatedly select the next or previous value
by clicking the up or down button.
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leg-spinner
(encz) | leg-spinner, |
money-spinner
(encz) | money-spinner, n: |
spinneret
(encz) | spinneret,snovací bradavka n: Zdeněk Brož |
spinners
(encz) | spinners,nahazovači n: pl. Zdeněk Brožspinners,přadleny n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
web spinner
(encz) | web spinner, n: |
Money spinner
(gcide) | Money \Mon"ey\, n.; pl. Moneys. [OE. moneie, OF. moneie, F.
monnaie, fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made,
Mind, and cf. Moidore, Monetary.]
1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined,
or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a
medium of exchange in financial transactions between
citizens and with government; also, any number of such
pieces; coin.
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To prevent such abuses, . . . it has been found
necessary . . . to affix a public stamp upon certain
quantities of such particular metals, as were in
those countries commonly made use of to purchase
goods. Hence the origin of coined money, and of
those public offices called mints. --A. Smith.
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2. Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as
a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit,
etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is
lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense,
any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and
selling.
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3. Any article used as a medium of payment in financial
transactions, such as checks drawn on checking accounts.
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4. (Economics) Any form of wealth which affects a person's
propensity to spend, such as checking accounts or time
deposits in banks, credit accounts, letters of credit,
etc. Various aggregates of money in different forms are
given different names, such as M-1, the total sum of all
currency in circulation plus all money in demand deposit
accounts (checking accounts).
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Note: Whatever, among barbarous nations, is used as a medium
of effecting exchanges of property, and in the terms of
which values are reckoned, as sheep, wampum, copper
rings, quills of salt or of gold dust, shovel blades,
etc., is, in common language, called their money.
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4. In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in
land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.
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The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
--1 Tim vi. 10
(Rev. Ver. ).
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Money bill (Legislation), a bill for raising revenue.
Money broker, a broker who deals in different kinds of
money; one who buys and sells bills of exchange; -- called
also money changer.
Money cowrie (Zool.), any one of several species of
Cypraea (esp. Cypraea moneta) formerly much used as
money by savage tribes. See Cowrie.
Money of account, a denomination of value used in keeping
accounts, for which there may, or may not, be an
equivalent coin; e. g., the mill is a money of account in
the United States, but not a coin.
Money order,
(a) an order for the payment of money; specifically, a
government order for the payment of money, issued at
one post office as payable at another; -- called also
postal money order.
(b) a similar order issued by a bank or other financial
institution.
Money scrivener, a person who procures the loan of money to
others. [Eng.]
Money spider, Money spinner (Zool.), a small spider; --
so called as being popularly supposed to indicate that the
person upon whom it crawls will be fortunate in money
matters.
Money's worth, a fair or full equivalent for the money
which is paid.
A piece of money, a single coin.
Ready money, money held ready for payment, or actually
paid, at the time of a transaction; cash.
plastic money, credit cards, usually made out of plastic;
also called plastic; as, put it on the plastic.
To make money, to gain or acquire money or property; to
make a profit in dealings.
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money-spinner
(gcide) | money-spinner \money-spinner\ n.
a project that generates a continuous flow of money.
Syn: moneymaker, cash cow.
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Ring spinner
(gcide) | Spinner \Spin"ner\ (sp[i^]n"n[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a
spinning machine.
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2. A spider. "Long-legged spinners." --Shak.
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3. (Zool.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise
it makes when darting through the air.
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4. (Zool.) A spinneret.
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Ring spinner, a machine for spinning, in which the twist,
given to the yarn by a revolving bobbin, is regulated by
the drag of a small metal loop which slides around a ring
encircling the bobbin, instead of by a throstle.
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Spinner
(gcide) | Spinner \Spin"ner\ (sp[i^]n"n[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a
spinning machine.
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2. A spider. "Long-legged spinners." --Shak.
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3. (Zool.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise
it makes when darting through the air.
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4. (Zool.) A spinneret.
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Ring spinner, a machine for spinning, in which the twist,
given to the yarn by a revolving bobbin, is regulated by
the drag of a small metal loop which slides around a ring
encircling the bobbin, instead of by a throstle.
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Spinneret
(gcide) | Spinneret \Spin"ner*et\ (sp[i^]n"n[~e]r*[e^]t), n. (Zool.)
One of the special jointed organs situated on the under side,
and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of
which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of
spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk
line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines
jointed after issuing from the spinnerets.
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Spinnerule
(gcide) | Spinnerule \Spin"ner*ule\ (sp[i^]n"n[~e]r*[-u]l), n. (Zool.)
One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of
spiders.
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Tube spinner
(gcide) | Tube \Tube\, n. [L. tubus; akin to tuba a trumpet: cf F. tube.]
1. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the
conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a
pipe.
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2. A telescope. "Glazed optic tube." --Milton.
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3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid
or other substance.
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4. (Bot.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
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5. (Gun.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under
Priming, and Friction.
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6. (Steam Boilers) A small pipe forming part of the boiler,
containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or
else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases
to pass through.
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7. (Zool.)
(a) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case
secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans,
insects, and other animals, for protection or
concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.
(b) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
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8. (Elec. Railways) A tunnel for a tube railway; also
(Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway. [Chiefly Eng.]
Note: In the New York area, the subways running under the
Hudson River are sometimes referred to as the tube.
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Capillary tube, a tube of very fine bore. See Capillary.
Fire tube (Steam Boilers), a tube which forms a flue.
Tube coral. (Zool.) Same as Tubipore.
Tube foot (Zool.), one of the ambulacral suckers of an
echinoderm.
Tube plate, or Tube sheet (Steam Boilers), a flue plate.
See under Flue.
Tube pouch (Mil.), a pouch containing priming tubes.
Tube spinner (Zool.), any one of various species of spiders
that construct tubelike webs. They belong to Tegenaria,
Agelena, and allied genera.
Water tube (Steam Boilers), a tube containing water and
surrounded by flame or hot gases.
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Water spinner
(gcide) | Water spinner \Wa"ter spin`ner\ (Zool.)
The water spider.
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money-spinner
(wn) | money-spinner
n 1: a project that generates a continuous flow of money [syn:
moneymaker, money-spinner, cash cow] |
web spinner
(wn) | web spinner
n 1: any of a small order of slender typically tropical insects
that nest in colonies in silken tunnels that they spin |
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