Spinning Top (Noun)
Meaning
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".
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- As the string was unwinding the spinning top revolved at high speed making the colours merge.
- There are 31 year-olds, according to staff writer Justin Harper in, from adults clutching precious or loving a teddy and equally amused about receiving as gift a conical toy spinning top as there are 4 year-olds.
- The children crowded round, enjoying watching a spinning top whose metal tip scratched out tiny patterns in a streak of spilled engine oil glistening on the rough concrete.
- With an irked half-smile, in response to a good- natured, somewhat paternalistic remark from their supervisor, one of the workers carefully pulled out a spinning top and string.
- As though some spectral guardian or poltergeist was responsible, abruptly the spinning top lurched into slow motion spinning, appearing to hover, like an insect in amber, in the bright morning light that steeply raked in through the empty windowpane.