Lexic.us

Definition of Spinning top

1. Noun. A conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin. "He got a bright red top and string for his birthday"

Definition of Spinning top

1. Noun. A toy with a tapering point that can be made to spin on its axis, either with a built-in pump-action handle, with the fingers or with a string. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinning Top

Literary usage of Spinning top

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1904)
"On the rise of a spinning top. By EG GALLOP, MA, Gonville and Caius College. [Received 29 January 1903.] (Abstract.) In order to explain the way in which ..."

2. A Treatise on Gyrostatics and Rotational Motion: Theory and Applications by Andrew Gray (1918)
"The gyroscope is however merely a glorified spinning top, and the person who asks why the gyroscope hung by a cord, and pre- cessing with the axis of ..."

3. Elements of Physics, Or, Natural Philosophy, General and Medical: Explained by Neil Arnott (1831)
"The reason also why a spinning top stands, will be understood here. While the top is quite upright, the extremity of its peg, being directly under its ..."

4. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1872)
"564) the whole weight of a tree 6>r let us say of a non-spinning top), when in the act of falling, is not exerted at the base or point of support, ..."

5. Little-folk Lyrics by Frank Dempster Sherman (1897)
"spinning top WHEN I spin round without a stop And keep my balance like the top, I find that soon the floor will swim Before my eyes; and then, like him, ..."

6. The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal by William Whewell, Duncan Farquharson Gregory, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Thomson Kelvin, Norman Macleod Ferrers (1846)
"NOTE ON THE THEORY OF THE SPINNING-TOP. THE manner in which friction causes a spinning-top to raise itself into a vertical position, has never, ..."

7. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"296 spinning top FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN When I spin round without a stop And keep my balance like the top, ..."

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