Spinner
['spɪnə] or ['spɪnɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water.
(noun.) board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game.
(noun.) someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads).
乔治錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
(n.) A spider.
(n.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
(n.) A spinneret.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The mule spinner shown in Fig. 287 is a good modern example of this machine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In most parts of Scotland, she is a good spinner who can earn twentypence a-week. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The rovings of cotton went under a bar-clasp that took the place of the spinner’s finger and thumb. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- This bar-clasp could be moved backward and forward on a rod as the spinner’s hand would do when stretching the thread and winding it on. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I held the taut line and felt the faint pulsing of the spinner revolving while I looked at the dark November water of the lake and the deserted shore. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- In the price of linen we must add to this price the wages of the flax-dresser, of the spinner, of the weaver, of the bleacher, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The diligent spinner has a large shift; and now I have a sheep and a cow, everybody bids me good-morrow. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Following these important inventions came the mule spinner. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Far more important historically were the experiments and ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858), a Manchester cotton-spinner. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In spinning fine numbers of yarn, a workman in a self-acting mule will do the work of 3,000 hand-spinners with the distaff and spindle. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- This machine could do the work of many spinners, and in a much shorter time. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- None but spinners were allowed within the circle. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The influence of all the Lancashire cotton-spinners was aligned against his claims. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- If, in the linen manufacture, for example, the wages of the different working people, the flax-dressers, the spinners, the weavers, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Half-a-dozen wool-combers, perhaps, are necessary to keep a thousand spinners and weavers at work. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But the same number of spinners or weavers will every year produce the same, or very nearly the same, quantity of linen and woollen cloth. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This old dried-up reservoir is occupied by a few ghostly silk-spinners now, and one of them showed me a cross cut high up in one of the pillars. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Realizing the hostility to any improvement on the part of the cotton-spinners, he gave out that he was engaged in building a machine to solve the world-old problem of perpetual motion. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- He traveled much through South Lancashire and Cheshire, and there he came in daily contact with the cotton-spinners. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- But the spinners did not take kindly to this improvement. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The employer of the spinners would require an additional five per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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