spinny
Syllables: spin·nyUK/ˈspɪ.ni/
spinny adjective: associated with spinning; moving with a spinning motion. Also the alternative spelling of spinney.
Adjective
spinny (comparative spinnier, superlative spinniest)
- Associated with spinning; moving with a spinning motion.
- The sound at contact should be solid and crisp, not “spinny.”1997, DAN Seemiller, M Holowchak, Winning Table Tennis: Skills, Drills, and Strategies - all 3 versions »
- “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)."2003, Ian S. Ginns, Stephen J. Norton, Campbell J. McRobbie, “Adding Value to the Teaching and Learning of Design and Technology”, in Pupils ^([sic]) Attitudes Towards Technology Annual Conference...
Noun
spinny (plural spinnies)
- Synonym of hard drive.
- 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.2023 August 8, umeng2002, “Windows 'auto turn off hard disk' setting - enable or disable?”, in TechPowerUp, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2024
- 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.2023 September 7, serverboy, “Drive Spin Down Query”, in TrueNAS, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2026
- Synonyms:
- hard drive
Also used as
spinny is also the alternative spelling of spinney.
Examples of spinny in a sentence
- Then you got a double whammy - your eyes were full of orange and your head was spinny and dizzy.2006, J Purkis, Finding a Different Kind of Normal: Misadventures with Asperger Syndrome:
- 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.2025 March 14, u/NotQuiteDeadYetPhoto, Reddit, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2025:
Synonyms of spinny
Forms of spinny
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | spinnier |
| superlative | spinniest |
| Noun | |
| plural | spinnies |
Origin of spinny
From spin + -y. Noun sense 1 (“hard drive”) is an allusion to disk platters spinning inside a hard drive while powered on.
From Latin spīnētum.
Words formed from spinny
- spinny chair
Words that rhyme with spinny
Questions about spinny
- What does spinny mean?
- Spinny means associated with spinning; moving with a spinning motion.
- How do you use spinny in a sentence?
- Then you got a double whammy - your eyes were full of orange and your head was spinny and dizzy.
- What part of speech is spinny?
- Spinny can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce spinny?
- Spinny is pronounced /ˈspɪ.ni/ (UK).
Words near spinny in the dictionary
Source and license
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