spunadj.

Brit.

/spʌn/, U.S.

/spən/

Etymology: Past participle of spin v.

1. That has undergone the process of spinning; formed, fabricated, or prepared by spinning:

a. Of wool, silk, or other material; also spec. of normally rigid materials, as glass. Also in combinations, esp. as spun-dyed adj., of materials coloured during spinning. Also in earlier use as the second element in combinations, as evil-spun, ill-spun (see those words).

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [adjective] > spun

spun1486

pirled1503

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [adjective] > coloured or patterned

random1874

spun-dyed1955

the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [adjective] > process or technique

woaded1579

galled1581

overdyeda1616

wool-dyed1832

piece-dyed1841

chromed1876

yarn-dyed1885

yūzen1902

box-coloured1903

tie-dyed1903

after-chrome1904

batik1914

vat-dyed1946

premetallized1949

spun-dyed1955

spin-dyed1963

1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. f iij b For as mych as weueris vse sich fusillys made of sponnyn woll.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Piv/1 Spunne, filatus.

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 575 Women did spinne with their hands and brought the spunne worke.

1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 390 The stockings..were wove of carded and spun silk.

1779 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 51 Long filaments of a vitrified matter like spun-glass.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 401/1 Two or more yarns, or simple spun threads, firmly united together by twisting.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 291 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The Murray mill..will be employed in weaving broad goods of net warps and ‘spun’ fillings.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2292/2 Spun-silk, a cheap article produced from short-fibered and waste silk, in contradistinction to the long fibers wound from the cocoon and thrown.

1899 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 48 62/1 Spun glass is probably the earliest production which resembles natural silk.

1936 H. Miller Black Spring 192 Suddenly like spun-glass under a blue flame, the street quickens into tongues of fire.

1940 Engineering 1 Nov. 343/3 The advantages of such spun-concrete products as pipes and poles are well known.

1947 J. C. Rich Materials & Methods Sculpt. iv. 64 Spun-copper bowls are highly recommended for use in mixing plaster of Paris.

1980 Nature 14 Feb. p. xiii/2 The body is a spun steel bowl and lid on die cast iron base.

in combination.1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3900 Velvet and plush, made from spun silk waste.1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 66/1 The spun-silk industry has chiefly developed in the Yorkshire and Lancashire textile centres.1955 S. R. Cockett & K. A. Hilton Basic Chem. Textile Colouring & Finishing i. 34 Spun-coloured or pigmented fibres. These are sometimes known as spun-dyed fibres, although the method of colouration is not a dyeing process in the usual sense.1975 R. H. Peters Textile Chem. III. i. 4 Other ways of colouring with insoluble compounds are to introduce them in fibre manufacture, i.e. in the polymer solution prior to extrusion giving ‘spun-dyed’ filaments.

b. spun gold, spun silver, a silk thread wound with gold, silver-gilt, or silver wire. Hence spun-golden adj.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > metallic > gold or silver

goldOE

fildora1350

gold or silk threadc1386

purl1394

silver1423

shreda1450

Venice gold1506

Venice silver1574

spun gold1728

passing1848

tambour1899

the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > golden yellow

gildenOE

goldena1382

goldya1398

dory1398

goldc1400

goldisha1425

sunlyc1425

goldlya1450

aureatec1450

gildedc1450

giltenc1450

scorn-golda1586

Pactolian1586

aureal1587

gold colour1648

gold-coloured1674

spun gold1728

aurulent1731

aurelian1791

deaurated1818

Tuscan1830

corn-coloured1854

old gold1877

buttercup yellow1880

aureoline1881

sun gold1887

Tuscan-coloured1905

guinea-gold1938

spun-golden1978

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Gold Spun Gold, is the flatted Gold wrapp'd, or laid over a Thread of Silk, by twisting it with a Wheel, and Iron Bobins.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2292/2.

1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 i. 21 Frail girls with heart-shaped faces, huge eyes, spun-gold hair.

1978 S. Sheldon Bloodline ii. 40 She had spun-golden hair and skin as delicate as porcelain.

c. Of butter or sugar: Drawn out or worked up into a thread-like form, esp. for ornamenting confectionery or other dishes.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing confectionery > [adjective] > spun for ornamenting confectionery

spun1834

1834 H. Martineau Farrers of Budge-Row ii. 20 A yellow lamb of spun butter.

1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator 549 You have previously formed some ropes of spun sugar.

1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 41 Spun butter in all its freshness.

1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table iv If you don't leave your spun-sugar confectionery business.

d. Applied to vegetable protein, esp. soya, that has been spun into fibres so as to resemble meat and to the meat substitutes made from it.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [adjective] > textured protein

textured1968

spun1973

1973 Guardian 21 Apr. 12/3 ‘Spun steak.’ Looks like steak..only it is made of spun soya.

1976 T. Heald Let Sleeping Dogs Die v. 81 Canine comestibles... Doggy buckwheat..spun protein tripe.

e. elliptical. Spun silk or yarn.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > spun

spun-yarn1376

spinning?c1510

spinstry1611

filament1791

twist1805

spun1869

spin1884

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > silk > spun

spun1869

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 290 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV 60,000 pounds of thrown silk, 60,000 pounds of ‘patent spun’, 100,000 pieces of belt ribbons [etc.].

1892 Daily News 24 Sept. 2/6 Yarns, no improvement yet noted in position of dry spuns, wet spuns are in pretty good demand.

2. With out. Unduly prolonged or protracted.

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the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > protracting or drawing out > extended in duration

tracting1535

prolonged1557

long-drawn1592

spaciousa1593

lengthened1597

protracted1598

stretched1609

producted1628

continuated1632

extended1737

long-drawn-out1752

drawn-out1824

spun1869

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > prolix

tedious1412

prolix?a1475

prolixtc1485

longa1525

prolixious1577

long-winded1589

long-drawn1592

wire-drawn1603

long-breatheda1628

long-spun1633

pedalian1636

oblong1643

lacinious1648

long-lunged1660

lengthened1705

libertine1710

lengthy1759

incompendious1833

lengthsome1836

spun1869

lengtheninga1872

fine-drawn1888

1869 K. H. Digby Little Low Bushes 244 Carheil is like a long and spun-out speech.

1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 645/2 We can pardon a few awkward or tedious phrases, a few spun-out passages.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	spun
释义	spunadj. Brit. /spʌn/, U.S. /spən/ Etymology: Past participle of spin v. 1. That has undergone the process of spinning; formed, fabricated, or prepared by spinning: a. Of wool, silk, or other material; also spec. of normally rigid materials, as glass. Also in combinations, esp. as spun-dyed adj., of materials coloured during spinning. Also in earlier use as the second element in combinations, as evil-spun, ill-spun (see those words). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [adjective] > spun spun1486 pirled1503 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [adjective] > coloured or patterned random1874 spun-dyed1955 the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [adjective] > process or technique woaded1579 galled1581 overdyeda1616 wool-dyed1832 piece-dyed1841 chromed1876 yarn-dyed1885 yūzen1902 box-coloured1903 tie-dyed1903 after-chrome1904 batik1914 vat-dyed1946 premetallized1949 spun-dyed1955 spin-dyed1963 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. f iij b For as mych as weueris vse sich fusillys made of sponnyn woll. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Piv/1 Spunne, filatus. 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 575 Women did spinne with their hands and brought the spunne worke. 1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 390 The stockings..were wove of carded and spun silk. 1779 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 51 Long filaments of a vitrified matter like spun-glass. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 401/1 Two or more yarns, or simple spun threads, firmly united together by twisting. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 291 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The Murray mill..will be employed in weaving broad goods of net warps and ‘spun’ fillings. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2292/2 Spun-silk, a cheap article produced from short-fibered and waste silk, in contradistinction to the long fibers wound from the cocoon and thrown. 1899 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 48 62/1 Spun glass is probably the earliest production which resembles natural silk. 1936 H. Miller Black Spring 192 Suddenly like spun-glass under a blue flame, the street quickens into tongues of fire. 1940 Engineering 1 Nov. 343/3 The advantages of such spun-concrete products as pipes and poles are well known. 1947 J. C. Rich Materials & Methods Sculpt. iv. 64 Spun-copper bowls are highly recommended for use in mixing plaster of Paris. 1980 Nature 14 Feb. p. xiii/2 The body is a spun steel bowl and lid on die cast iron base. in combination.1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3900 Velvet and plush, made from spun silk waste.1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 66/1 The spun-silk industry has chiefly developed in the Yorkshire and Lancashire textile centres.1955 S. R. Cockett & K. A. Hilton Basic Chem. Textile Colouring & Finishing i. 34 Spun-coloured or pigmented fibres. These are sometimes known as spun-dyed fibres, although the method of colouration is not a dyeing process in the usual sense.1975 R. H. Peters Textile Chem. III. i. 4 Other ways of colouring with insoluble compounds are to introduce them in fibre manufacture, i.e. in the polymer solution prior to extrusion giving ‘spun-dyed’ filaments. b. spun gold, spun silver, a silk thread wound with gold, silver-gilt, or silver wire. Hence spun-golden adj. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > metallic > gold or silver goldOE fildora1350 gold or silk threadc1386 purl1394 silver1423 shreda1450 Venice gold1506 Venice silver1574 spun gold1728 passing1848 tambour1899 the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > golden yellow gildenOE goldena1382 goldya1398 dory1398 goldc1400 goldisha1425 sunlyc1425 goldlya1450 aureatec1450 gildedc1450 giltenc1450 scorn-golda1586 Pactolian1586 aureal1587 gold colour1648 gold-coloured1674 spun gold1728 aurulent1731 aurelian1791 deaurated1818 Tuscan1830 corn-coloured1854 old gold1877 buttercup yellow1880 aureoline1881 sun gold1887 Tuscan-coloured1905 guinea-gold1938 spun-golden1978 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Gold Spun Gold, is the flatted Gold wrapp'd, or laid over a Thread of Silk, by twisting it with a Wheel, and Iron Bobins. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2292/2. 1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 i. 21 Frail girls with heart-shaped faces, huge eyes, spun-gold hair. 1978 S. Sheldon Bloodline ii. 40 She had spun-golden hair and skin as delicate as porcelain. c. Of butter or sugar: Drawn out or worked up into a thread-like form, esp. for ornamenting confectionery or other dishes. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing confectionery > [adjective] > spun for ornamenting confectionery spun1834 1834 H. Martineau Farrers of Budge-Row ii. 20 A yellow lamb of spun butter. 1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator 549 You have previously formed some ropes of spun sugar. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 41 Spun butter in all its freshness. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table iv If you don't leave your spun-sugar confectionery business. d. Applied to vegetable protein, esp. soya, that has been spun into fibres so as to resemble meat and to the meat substitutes made from it. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [adjective] > textured protein textured1968 spun1973 1973 Guardian 21 Apr. 12/3 ‘Spun steak.’ Looks like steak..only it is made of spun soya. 1976 T. Heald Let Sleeping Dogs Die v. 81 Canine comestibles... Doggy buckwheat..spun protein tripe. e. elliptical. Spun silk or yarn. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > spun spun-yarn1376 spinning?c1510 spinstry1611 filament1791 twist1805 spun1869 spin1884 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > silk > spun spun1869 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 290 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV 60,000 pounds of thrown silk, 60,000 pounds of ‘patent spun’, 100,000 pieces of belt ribbons [etc.]. 1892 Daily News 24 Sept. 2/6 Yarns, no improvement yet noted in position of dry spuns, wet spuns are in pretty good demand. 2. With out. Unduly prolonged or protracted. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > protracting or drawing out > extended in duration tracting1535 prolonged1557 long-drawn1592 spaciousa1593 lengthened1597 protracted1598 stretched1609 producted1628 continuated1632 extended1737 long-drawn-out1752 drawn-out1824 spun1869 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > prolix tedious1412 prolix?a1475 prolixtc1485 longa1525 prolixious1577 long-winded1589 long-drawn1592 wire-drawn1603 long-breatheda1628 long-spun1633 pedalian1636 oblong1643 lacinious1648 long-lunged1660 lengthened1705 libertine1710 lengthy1759 incompendious1833 lengthsome1836 spun1869 lengtheninga1872 fine-drawn1888 1869 K. H. Digby Little Low Bushes 244 Carheil is like a long and spun-out speech. 1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 645/2 We can pardon a few awkward or tedious phrases, a few spun-out passages. 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