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单词 spinner
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Definition of spinner in English:

spinner

noun ˈspɪnəˈspɪnər
  • 1A person occupied in making thread by spinning.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mary Daly is a spinner and weaver, a performer, a wicked player throwing her life into the creation of new time.
    • People kept asking Qadir why he was not helping his country produce a spinner like him.
    • The profit from the exhibition will be utilised for promoting schemes beneficial to weavers and spinners, said P. Ajayakumar, project officer, State Khadi Board.
    • When they talk about the spinner more than his product, it is plainly time for him to go.
    • The couple met while working at Bairstow's Mill, Sutton, where Ernest was an apprentice engineer and Gwen a spinner.
    • Millions of khadi spinners and weavers are under the vast network of institutions, which constitute the KVIC umbrella.
    • He spun his stick around in his fingers like a spinner would with thread.
    • She claimed to be Clotho, the spinner of the thread of life!
    • The spinner and weaver from Mayo, has the intense gaze of people marveling at the ease with which she spins her varied materials.
    • Working with the talented hand spinners and weavers of Bangladesh was necessary to develop the collection.
    • Demonstrations taking place include basket makers, corn dollies, stick making, coracle maker, greenwood workers, blacksmith, spoon carver, spinners and weavers.
    • Now we have an alternate livelihood programme that has started targeting the weavers and spinners in Srinagar.
    • Set for a launch on Saturday, one of the Exhibition's objectives is to provide sustained employment to the weavers and spinners.
    • A reader asks if they link us with the days of the hand-loom weaver and the home spinner?
    • In a cool back room, spinners and weavers worked on wool that brings farmers a few pence a kilo, and £200 sweaters that take a month to make.
    • He inspired Indians to burn imported British fabrics and return to the traditional textiles woven in villages, and he helped retrain local spinners, weavers, and carders.
    • The difference in the weight of the whorl, the degree of teasing and the skill of the spinner dictated the quality of the thread.
    • Calling all Bolton ex-mill workers, carders, spinners, winders and weavers… someone wants to hear your story.
    • Rural spinners could not compete with cheap, factory-spun thread, and country weavers could rarely survive far from eastern supplies of yarn and the industry's principal markets.
    • The fortunes of the traditional coir yarn spinners, mat weavers and carpet-makers have been on the downtrend.
  • 2Cricket
    A bowler who is expert in spinning the ball.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘Reverse swing is key for us because the pitches last time we toured were produced for spinners,’ he said.
    • Michael Vaughan had been doing a splendid job as a spinner, luring Ganguly down the pitch, beating him, only to see Foster fluff the take.
    • Little known spinner Collins Obuya took five wickets as Kenya pulled off one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history here yesterday when they beat 1996 champions Sri Lanka by 53 runs.
    • Left-arm wrist spinner Adams pulled a muscle between his groin and hip and will be out of action for at least 10 days.
    • When he drove through the offside, it was as vigorously as anyone had in this match, but it was the way he cut and pulled that rendered the spinners ineffective.
    1. 2.1 A spun ball.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Phil Jaques peppered the boundary for Yorkshire striking 72 off 40 balls but Lancashire's spinners proved hard to get away.
      • Singh actually took more wickets with his deliveries that did not spin, than he did with his spinners.
      • Even with two fielders protecting the area, he was willing to rock back and cut the spinners so late that he could place the ball safely out of harm's way.
      • On very oily lanes, a spinner will spin too much and not break early enough to be effective.
      • ‘There are times when sometimes I am forced to bowl the spinners when I probably wouldn't want to because we are so far behind,’ he said.
  • 3Fishing
    A lure designed to revolve when pulled through the water.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Either way, the one-handed rod was the common denominator for chunking topwater plugs, spinnerbaits and subsurface lures amid the sloughs and backwaters.
    • ‘Fish shallow areas near deeper water,’ Crafts said, ‘and throw something that makes a lot of noise: buzzbaits, spinnerbaits, topwaters.’
    • That and the trailing grub help to hold the spinnerbait higher in the water column.
    • He used a Stanley spinnerbait, according to a release from the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, in six feet of water.
    • Although not often recognized as ‘big bass’ lures, spinnerbaits have accounted over the years for many double-digit largemouths.
    1. 3.1 A type of fishing fly, used chiefly for trout.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Idly I reeled the little spinner through the blue-green water.
      • Laurits saw a fish move in the river just under the water and directed Fleming where he should cast his spinner.
      • We flyfished and waded, jigged lures and threw spinners.
      • The river is generally slow and sluggish, the only reasonable chance of success being with a spinner to give the lure some life.
      • Flies, spinners and plugs, in fact all types of lures including plastic worms, also live and dead bait all catch these fish.
  • 4A metal fairing that is attached to and revolves with the propeller boss of an aircraft in order to streamline it.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One fairly consistent rule, however, is to focus your eyes on a point far down the runway, say 15 to 30 degrees to the left or right of the spinner.
    • In an attempt to overcome cooling problems, Steve completely removed the spinner for the 1939 event, allowing air to ram straight into the radiator.
    • The propeller spinners used by UAL were large hemispherical domes (not pointed) with a black porous coating of rubber.
    • The plane was painted an overall yellow with a red spinner.
    • Also, large four-blade paddle-style propellers had been added along with a set of spinners that had been made for the prototypes and early production aircraft.
    • Oddly, there was a lack of a streamlining spinner over the blunt propeller hub.
    • Holes had been patched, the outer wing panels and horizontal tail replaced with new P - 38F spares, and new props and spinners installed.
    • With all the anti-ice and de-ice equipment on, we still had a slight layer of ice on the leading edges and propeller spinner.
    • The craft had a new spinner and the rear fuselage was now built up and a new windshield and canopy were added.
    • Now registered R260Y / Race 52, there had not been time to finish a spinner for the propeller hub.
    • A new and much improved cowling was built for the Menasco while a hand-formed aluminum spinner was added over the propeller hub.
    • The oil coolers were immediately behind the spinners.
    • The GPS led me by the spinner toward the intercept, cued the turn onto the approach path and guided me as surely as a localizer toward the airport.
    • Naturally, we get a purple jumbo jet with 84-inch spinner rims.
    • We never could find a workable substitute for attaching the spinners, however.
    • Check the spinner mount screws to see if they're loose or if cracks are radiating from the holes.
    • Congratulations to the Stewarts on a fine restoration and the addition of the prop spinners - they look great and are efficient.

Rhymes

beginner, Berliner, Corinna, dinner, grinner, inner, Jinnah, sinner, skinner, thinner, winner
 
 

Definition of spinner in US English:

spinner

nounˈspɪnərˈspinər
  • 1A person occupied in making thread by spinning.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Demonstrations taking place include basket makers, corn dollies, stick making, coracle maker, greenwood workers, blacksmith, spoon carver, spinners and weavers.
    • The fortunes of the traditional coir yarn spinners, mat weavers and carpet-makers have been on the downtrend.
    • The difference in the weight of the whorl, the degree of teasing and the skill of the spinner dictated the quality of the thread.
    • The profit from the exhibition will be utilised for promoting schemes beneficial to weavers and spinners, said P. Ajayakumar, project officer, State Khadi Board.
    • When they talk about the spinner more than his product, it is plainly time for him to go.
    • The couple met while working at Bairstow's Mill, Sutton, where Ernest was an apprentice engineer and Gwen a spinner.
    • A reader asks if they link us with the days of the hand-loom weaver and the home spinner?
    • Rural spinners could not compete with cheap, factory-spun thread, and country weavers could rarely survive far from eastern supplies of yarn and the industry's principal markets.
    • Millions of khadi spinners and weavers are under the vast network of institutions, which constitute the KVIC umbrella.
    • In a cool back room, spinners and weavers worked on wool that brings farmers a few pence a kilo, and £200 sweaters that take a month to make.
    • Mary Daly is a spinner and weaver, a performer, a wicked player throwing her life into the creation of new time.
    • Working with the talented hand spinners and weavers of Bangladesh was necessary to develop the collection.
    • Calling all Bolton ex-mill workers, carders, spinners, winders and weavers… someone wants to hear your story.
    • People kept asking Qadir why he was not helping his country produce a spinner like him.
    • He spun his stick around in his fingers like a spinner would with thread.
    • Set for a launch on Saturday, one of the Exhibition's objectives is to provide sustained employment to the weavers and spinners.
    • Now we have an alternate livelihood programme that has started targeting the weavers and spinners in Srinagar.
    • She claimed to be Clotho, the spinner of the thread of life!
    • He inspired Indians to burn imported British fabrics and return to the traditional textiles woven in villages, and he helped retrain local spinners, weavers, and carders.
    • The spinner and weaver from Mayo, has the intense gaze of people marveling at the ease with which she spins her varied materials.
  • 2Fishing
    A lure designed to revolve when pulled through the water.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He used a Stanley spinnerbait, according to a release from the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, in six feet of water.
    • Either way, the one-handed rod was the common denominator for chunking topwater plugs, spinnerbaits and subsurface lures amid the sloughs and backwaters.
    • ‘Fish shallow areas near deeper water,’ Crafts said, ‘and throw something that makes a lot of noise: buzzbaits, spinnerbaits, topwaters.’
    • That and the trailing grub help to hold the spinnerbait higher in the water column.
    • Although not often recognized as ‘big bass’ lures, spinnerbaits have accounted over the years for many double-digit largemouths.
    1. 2.1 A type of fishing fly, used chiefly for trout.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The river is generally slow and sluggish, the only reasonable chance of success being with a spinner to give the lure some life.
      • We flyfished and waded, jigged lures and threw spinners.
      • Flies, spinners and plugs, in fact all types of lures including plastic worms, also live and dead bait all catch these fish.
      • Idly I reeled the little spinner through the blue-green water.
      • Laurits saw a fish move in the river just under the water and directed Fleming where he should cast his spinner.
  • 3A metal fairing that is attached to and revolves with the propeller boss of an aircraft in order to streamline it.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Check the spinner mount screws to see if they're loose or if cracks are radiating from the holes.
    • Now registered R260Y / Race 52, there had not been time to finish a spinner for the propeller hub.
    • A new and much improved cowling was built for the Menasco while a hand-formed aluminum spinner was added over the propeller hub.
    • Naturally, we get a purple jumbo jet with 84-inch spinner rims.
    • The GPS led me by the spinner toward the intercept, cued the turn onto the approach path and guided me as surely as a localizer toward the airport.
    • With all the anti-ice and de-ice equipment on, we still had a slight layer of ice on the leading edges and propeller spinner.
    • Oddly, there was a lack of a streamlining spinner over the blunt propeller hub.
    • The propeller spinners used by UAL were large hemispherical domes (not pointed) with a black porous coating of rubber.
    • The craft had a new spinner and the rear fuselage was now built up and a new windshield and canopy were added.
    • One fairly consistent rule, however, is to focus your eyes on a point far down the runway, say 15 to 30 degrees to the left or right of the spinner.
    • Also, large four-blade paddle-style propellers had been added along with a set of spinners that had been made for the prototypes and early production aircraft.
    • The oil coolers were immediately behind the spinners.
    • Congratulations to the Stewarts on a fine restoration and the addition of the prop spinners - they look great and are efficient.
    • In an attempt to overcome cooling problems, Steve completely removed the spinner for the 1939 event, allowing air to ram straight into the radiator.
    • We never could find a workable substitute for attaching the spinners, however.
    • Holes had been patched, the outer wing panels and horizontal tail replaced with new P - 38F spares, and new props and spinners installed.
    • The plane was painted an overall yellow with a red spinner.
  • 4A person or thing that spins.

 
 
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