spinny
/ˈspɪ.ni/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "1997, DAN Seemiller, M Holowchak, Winning Table Tennis: Skills, Drills, and Strategies - all 3 versions » The sound at contact should be solid and crisp, not “spinny.”"
- "“It is a spinny thing with wires in it, with the wires wrapped around something (coil) and N and S (unsure what N and S were).""
- "Then you got a double whammy - your eyes were full of orange and your head was spinny and dizzy."
- "I always turned it off when I had spinnies. Bearings wear the most when you change rotational speed. If you keep the rotational speed constant, they last a very very long time."
- "My server will be used to store PLEX content and offer iSCSI to my VMWARE hosts but those will be from NVME drives which. So the spinnies will just be doing SMB shares."
- "And if your computer doesn't have ram, it defaults to swap disk- which on an SSD is fast, but on a spinny is slow."
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English spinnen English spin Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English spinny From spin + -y. Noun sense 1 (“hard drive”) is an allusion to disk platters spinning inside a hard drive while powered on.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈspɪ.ni/
- British English: /ˈspɪ.ni/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
spinny chair