spinner

«spinner» in Mova's school dictionary: a thing that spins, like a game spinner with a pointer… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a spinner, spinners)

meaning for a pupil

1) A spinner is a thing that spins, like a game spinner with a pointer that shows a number or colour. tree →

2) In cricket, a spinner is a bowler who makes the ball spin. tree →

3) A spinner is a person who spins wool or thread. tree →

4) A fidget spinner is a small toy that spins on your finger. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths lessons spinners are used to learn probability: on a spinner with 4 equal parts, each colour has a 1 in 4 chance. In board games a spinner replaces dice. In sport (UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland), cricket spinners bowl slow, turning balls. Phrases: «spin the spinner», «fidget spinner», «leg spinner».

examples

• Spin the spinner to see how many spaces to move. tree →
• The spinner landed on red three times. tree →
• On a spinner with 6 equal parts, the chance of blue is 1 in 6. tree →
• Australia's spinner took five wickets. tree →
• My fidget spinner whirls for a minute. tree →
• In the old days, spinners made thread from wool. tree →
• ‘Why didn’t you come?’ he asked the pretty spinner. tree →

note

Countable: spinner, spinners; double «n». In probability: the chance of a part = its size ÷ the whole. If the parts are not equal, the bigger part is more likely.

In the corpora

• A salad spinner flings the water outward and off the leaves through the holes; hospitals spin blood fast to separate it into layers.
• Use a fidget spinner or small toy in class only if the teacher allows it, because toys can distract you and others.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «spinner» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.