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Spinning top   /spˈɪnɪŋ tɑp/   Listen
Spinning top

noun
1.
A conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin.  Synonyms: teetotum, top, whirligig.





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"Spinning top" Quotes from Famous Books



... fortunately as impossible to get away from friction as it is to get away from the other laws we have tried to imagine as being turned off. There is always some friction, or rubbing, whenever anything moves. A bird rubs against the air, the point of a spinning top rubs against the sidewalk on which it is spinning. Your shoes rub against the ground as you walk and so make it possible for you to push yourself forward. The drive wheels of machinery rub against ...
— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne


Words linked to "Spinning top" :   whip top, teetotum, toy, humming top, top, peg top, plaything, whipping top


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