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spinning Definition

spin·ning (spin)

noun

  1. the act of making thread or yarn from fibers or filaments
  2. the act of fishing with a rod that has a fixed spool, a light line, and light lures

adjective

that spins or is used in spinning

spinning Finance Definition
The act of allocating shares in hot initial public offerings to corporate executives and their boards of directors to induce them to award future lucrative investment banking work to the bank giving out the shares. The term came into public consciousness after the stock market and the initial public offering markets collapsed in the early 2000s.
spinning Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • yarn: The spinning of linen yarn had become the local industry.
  • wheel: This process is aided by centrifugal force from the spinning of the wheel.

Modifying Another Word

  • rapidly: The rapid collapse also starts the system rapidly spinning.
  • slowly: Early wood pulps were made by grinding logs between two slowly spinning stones.
  • still: Not to forget, of course, Alfredo still spinning at Space!
  • not: This device, which was not spinning, was coming lower toward the ground.
  • n't: To my shock and horror it was n't spinning.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • keep: But it's fun and keeps the wheels spinning.
  • stop: Explain what you are about to ask them to hold the wheel, you will start it spinning then will stop the wheel spinning.

Modifies a noun

  • jenny: By the time of his death, more than 20,000 spinning jennies were in use.
  • mule: The house in which Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule.
  • wheel: Spinning color wheels, bars chasing in circular patterns.
  • diabolo: Once you can control a spinning diabolo the next thing you will want to learn is How to throw & catch a diabolo.
  • flax: In 1997 the company ceased spinning flax but happily this will not be the end of the mill.
  • mill: The Ordnance Survey found the five story spinning mill in course of erection.

Used with adjective complement

  • stop: By the time your head has stopped spinning from the sheer richness of it all you don't care anymore.
  • start: But when they noticed the jerky shop their heads starting spinning.
  • keep: Not many people know that the world is kept spinning by a mechanism primed by a golden key.
  • include: It's a reliable line that I'd be happy using for medium to heavy feeder work or for specimen fishing, including spinning.
  • melt: Electrodeposition or melt spinning can be used to avoid these problems.

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