0 a toy with rounded sides, a flat top, a vertical handle, and a point at the bottom, that turns round and round on the point when the handle is pushed and pulled up and down or twisted
Eve repairs a spinning top after it fell out of the wardrobe in the attic the previous night.
They start on one policy; overnight they change their policy round until they are like a spinning top, giddy with the gyrations which they themselves have impelled.
Initially, he compared the color he observed on the spinning top with a paper of different color, in order to find a match.
In the case of a spinning toy top, when the spinning top starts tilting, gravity exerts a torque.
For this reason the spinning top remains upright whereas a stationary one falls over immediately.
The 30 ft wide disc, shaped like a spinning top, darted silently in a northwesterly direction, leaving the asphalt ablaze for many minutes afterwards.
Axial precession is similar to the precession of a spinning top.
This pitching motion reorients the spinning top with respect to the torque that is being exerted.
