What's the difference between spinner and spinney?

Spinner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
  • (n.) A spider.
  • (n.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
  • (n.) A spinneret.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Countings were made of the number of glassfibers present at the skin of the spinners after the end of the work.
  • (2) Oxygen diffusion distance was measured in solid tumor "cubes" prepared by excising the tumor from the mouse and incubating 1-2 mm sided tumor cubes in spinner culture flasks with fluorescent drugs (AF-2 or DM113) which bind to hypoxic cells.
  • (3) We have recently shown that the semi-continuous cultivation of a mouse hybridoma line in spinner flasks, with a basal defined medium (BDM) devoid of serum and protein, increases the secretion of the immunoreactive monoclonal antibody (MAb) by a factor of ca.
  • (4) Cells were cultured in spinner flasks of 500 ml liquid volume for adaptation to stirred culture conditions.
  • (5) Blood smears were prepared with the use of a spinner, which rotated with a fixed velocity for a fixed time.
  • (6) Six water-jacketed 500-ml Bellco spinner flasks were equipped to monitor and control environmental variables to study their effects on the growth and metabolism of mammalian cells.
  • (7) Two hybridoma cell lines were cultivated in an indirectly aerated 10-1 reactor in batch, fed-batch and continuous (perfusion) operations and in spinner flasks.
  • (8) To examine the growth of these transfected cells in vivo, cells were grown in spinner culture flasks to form spheroids 250-300 microns in diameter.
  • (9) In contrast to these results, all the phospholipid to protein and the cholesterol to protein ratios of the internalized plasma membranes were higher in monolayer than in spinner cells, and the proportions of all phospholipids, except phosphatidylethanolamine, were similar in both cell types.
  • (10) The potential toxicity of these agents was examined in the absence of sparging (i.e., in spinner flasks) by using the attachment-independent Sf9 insect cell line as a model system.
  • (11) Tourism is an increasing money-spinner, with trips to see the Mountains of the Moon and the rare mountain gorillas in western Uganda especially popular.
  • (12) Aggregation of NR cells was inhibited by macrophages from mice and rats, and to a greater extent by cancer cell suspensions of mouse Ehrlich and rat Walker 256 lines from spinner culture or in the ascites form.
  • (13) Isis has been a real beneficiary.” For years, other, often anonymous critics, briefers, spinners and leakers have kept up a running commentary on Chilcot in the newspapers.
  • (14) Although continuous culturing was not achieved in spinner flasks, the production of litre quantities of heavily parasitised erythrocytes was achieved more simply than by using MASP cultures.
  • (15) A significant reduction in forced expiratory volumes (FEV1 after a shift) was observed in spinners of both factories.
  • (16) While influential, it has never been a massive money-spinner, and one estimate suggests it has seen a 57% drop in advertising on a circulation of around 500,000 copies.
  • (17) A reversion to Type I collagen synthesis occurred when the spinner-cultured cells were returned to monolayer flasks.
  • (18) Alpha fetoprotein (AFP) synthesis by adult rats during gestation and hepatoma growth was determined in vitro with specific precipitations of radiolabeled AFP antisera after incubation of Spinner cultures of various rat tissues in arginine-free culture medium containing radiolabeled arginine.
  • (19) IDS's spinners are continuing an increasingly popular political tactic in both the US and UK of using telly references to connect with the electorate.
  • (20) Spheroids were initiated in bacteriological grade petri dishes seeded with 10(6) 9L rat glioma cells, cultured for four days and thereafter transferred and further developed in a spinner flask.

Spinney


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Spinny.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You had to let it crash over you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Miles’s life was torture’ … Lu Spinney at home.
  • (2) The Royal Deeside water is shipped from Aberdeenshire to branches of Spinneys in Dubai, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi.
  • (3) Now we celebrate Miles.” • Beyond the High Blue Air by Lu Spinney is published on 5 May by Atlantic Books, £14.99.
  • (4) I knew, undoubtedly, he was aware and I saw the mixture of anguish, anger and pain on his face.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A young Miles, Lu Spinney’s son.
  • (5) Fifty years from now, keeping people imprisoned by medical care against their wishes will be considered as misjudged as incarcerating patients in Bedlam,” says Lu Spinney.
  • (6) These recordings now form the soundtrack of a documentary film, Notes on Blindness by Pete Middleton and James Spinney, recently released alongside a cutting-edge virtual reality project that immerses you in a world without sight.
  • (7) Formerly Headteacher, Wren Spinney Special School Kettering.
  • (8) But John’s description of what the sound of rain could tell you about your surroundings took my breath away.” Peter Middleton and James Spinney’s short film, Notes on Blindness, based on Hull’s audio diaries, was commissioned by the New York Times and premiered at the 2014 Sundance film festival.

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