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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SPINNING JENNY

See jenny; the reason for the adoption of the woman's name is unclear.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SPINNING JENNY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPINNING JENNY

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conjunction
determiner
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Spinning jenny is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SPINNING JENNY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

spinning jenny

Spinning jenny

The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame. It was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. The device reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn, with a worker able to work eight or more spools at once. This grew to 120 as technology advanced. Model of spinning jenny in the Museum of Early Industrialisation, Wuppertal, Germany...

Definition of spinning jenny in the English dictionary

The definition of spinning jenny in the dictionary is an early type of spinning frame with several spindles, invented by James Hargreaves in 1764.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPINNING JENNY

spink
spinless
spinmeister
spinnaker
spinner
spinneret
spinnerule
spinnery
spinney
spinning
spinning mule
spinning top
spinning wheel
spinode
spinor
spinose
spinosely
spinosity
spinous
spinous process

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPINNING JENNY

a bad penny
a pretty penny
benny
catchpenny
fenny
genny
halfpenny
ha´penny
henny
jenny
Kenny
Kilkenny
long jenny
new penny
penny
short jenny
sixpenny
spend a penny
tenpenny
threepenny

Synonyms and antonyms of spinning jenny in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «spinning jenny» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPINNING JENNY

Find out the translation of spinning jenny to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spinning jenny from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spinning jenny» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

珍妮纺纱机
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

máquina de hilar
570 millions of speakers

English

spinning jenny
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कताई जेनी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الغزل جيني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

спиннинг Дженни
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fiação jenny
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্পিনিং জেসি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

filature jenny
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berputar jenny
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Spinning Jenny
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スピニングジェニー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

회전 제니
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Spinning jenny
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

quay jenny
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஜென்னி சுழலும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कताई जेनी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dönen jenny
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spinning jenny
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przędzenie Jenny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спінінг Дженні
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

filare jenny
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

νηματοποίηση jenny
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spinmasjien
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spinning Jenny
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spinne jenny
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spinning jenny

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPINNING JENNY»

The term «spinning jenny» is normally little used and occupies the 120.730 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPINNING JENNY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «spinning jenny» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «spinning jenny» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spinning jenny

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPINNING JENNY»

Discover the use of spinning jenny in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spinning jenny and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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100 Greatest Science Inventions of All Time
The spinning jenny allowed for the mass production of thread, cloth, and clothes. It slashed the price of clothes and made them affordable for ordinary working families. The jenny created the industrial technology that triggered the beginning of ...
Kendall F. Haven, 2006
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Smokestacks and Spinning Jennys: Industrial Revolution
He called it the spinning jenny. By 1778 there were 20,000 spinning Jennys in England. This machine made it easier and faster to make cloth. Cloth making started the Industrial Revolution. 6 The spinning jenny could make several threads ...
Sean Price, 2006
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Yarn and Cloth Making: An Economic Study; a College and ...
ILLUSTRATIONS Baines, p. 158. Spinning jenny. Brooks, p. 86. Spinning jenny. Briiggemann, p. 37. Hargreaves' mule-jenny spinning machine. Butterworth, p. 181, fig. 5. Jenny of 1764. Farrar, p. 14. Hargreaves' spinning jenny. Guest, Pl. 6.
Mary Lois Kissell, 1918
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A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and ...
The first improvement of any importance in spinning, was that of tike spinning jenny invented by Mr. Hargraves, as related in our article Weaving. This was followed by the stubbing machine or billy, which by preparing the rovings for the jenny, ...
Alexander Jamieson, 1829
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Inventors and Inventions
The spinning jenny, invented by Hargreaves, helped spinners to produce thread in greater volume. Although some historians claim that the spinning jenny was invented in 1767, most think it was invented a few years before, in 1 764.
Doris Simonis, 2007
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The Industrial Revolution in America - Overview/Comparison
the town of Blackburn in Lancashire. Like Kay and others, he was always searching for ways to increase his productivity. His most successful invention was the spinning jenny, a modified spinning wheel that allowed one operator to spin eight ...
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Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries: All the ...
... and the Milky Way galaxy is “about” 100,000 light-years in diameter. Since such immense numbers when measured in miles or kilometers are extremely difficult to imagine, the spinning jenny 209 spinning jenny After John Kay invented the.
Rodney Carlisle, Scientific American, 2005
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2012 Poet's Market
Spinning Jenny, published once/year in the fall (usually September), has published poetry by Abraham Smith, Cynthia Cruz, Michael Morse, and Joyelle McSweeney. Spinning Jenny is 96 pages, digest-sized, perfect-bound, with heavy card ...
Robert Lee Brewer, 2011
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The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French ...
Both these forms of proliferation may be seen in the impact of the spinning jenny and associated new spinning technology in France in the last three decades of the eighteenth century. The invention of these machines in England was directly  ...
William M. Reddy, 1987
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The American educator: completely remodeled and rewritten ...
The next great invention in spinning consisted of the spinning jenny, invented by Hargreaves (see Spinning Jenny). This made possible the spinning of a large number of threads at once. Later Hargreaves's invention was improved upon by ...
Ellsworth D. Foster, James Laughlin Hughes, 1922

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPINNING JENNY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spinning jenny is used in the context of the following news items.
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Spinning jenny borne of having large family to feed
Stanhill and Helmshore are linked by one famous man, James Hargreaves, inventor of the spinning jenny, the first of the really successful spinning inventions ... «Pendle Today, Jun 15»
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Labour's problem was not a bad leader but a dying party
Like the spinning jenny and the video recorder, political movements have an inbuilt obsolescence. There is no reason why Labour should not go the way of the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
3
China Didn't Invent Industrial Espionage
In 1771, Holker's son brought back detailed blueprints of the “spinning jenny,” a machine that vastly increased the production of yarn used in textiles. The British ... «Bloomberg View, May 15»
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SSP UK opens The Spinning Jenny's Brew House at Manchester …
The Spinning Jenny's Brew House menu features smokehouse cooking including 20-hour pulled pork burgers made from Staffordshire-reared meat, 'proper' ... «MoodieReport, Apr 15»
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Booth Laird On Melting Ice Cube Investments; Hidden Gems
For instance, the Spinning Jenny destroyed the home sewing business that was the primary method for textiles. Fast forward to the modern age of computing ... «ValueWalk, Apr 15»
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Economic growth
... innovation in the 18th century that schoolboy historians may remember; the steam engine of James Watt; the spinning jenny of Hargreaves and so on. «The Economist, Feb 15»
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Spinning tales
The first was technological innovation in the industrial north; spinning machines, the invention of the flying shuttle, the spinning jenny and power looms were the ... «The Economist, Dec 14»
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Industrial Revolution caught Burnley napping
However, the spinning jenny, invented by James Hargreaves, has more of a claim to being the work of a single individual. Hargreaves was a handloom weaver ... «Pendle Today, Oct 14»
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Best Shots Comic Reviews: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #5, BATMAN …
But for now, it's funny, whether it's them "Googling" each other on the ceiling or Spidey calling Cindy "the Spectacular Spinning Jenny" on live television. «Newsarama, Aug 14»
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Spinning Jenny
The family band, Spinning Jenny, took the stage Friday at the Weirton Event Center as part of this year's Weirton Summer Concert Series. The Balzano family ... «The Daily Times, Aug 14»

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