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Unlike graphical activity indicators, the spinning bar is commonly combined with progress displays, since the lower resolution of character-based progress bars requires a separate indication of activity. Often, the spinning wheel is displayed at the position of the cursor, then also called "spinning cursor" or "rotating cursor".
The spinner on automobile wheels historically refers to knock-off hub nuts or center caps. They may be the actual, or intended to simulate, the design used on antique vehicles or vintage sports cars. A "spinner wheel" in contemporary usage is a type of hubcap or inner wheel ornament, that spins independently inside of a wheel itself when the ...
English Fairy Tales. " Rumpelstiltskin " ( / ˌrʌmpəlˈstɪltskɪn / RUMP-əl-STILT-skin; [1] German: Rumpelstilzchen pronounced [ʁʊmpl̩ʃtiːltsçn̩]) is a German fairy tale [2] collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. [2] The story is about an imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a ...
From an edition of Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium showing Lady Fortune spinning her wheel. In medieval and ancient philosophy, the Wheel of Fortune or Rota Fortunae is a symbol of the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna ( Greek equivalent: Tyche) who spins it at random, changing the positions of those ...
The spinning pinwheel is a type of throbber and a variation of the mouse pointer used in Apple 's macOS to indicate that an application is busy. [ 1] Officially, the macOS Human Interface Guidelines refer to it as the spinning wait cursor, [ 2] but it is also known by other names. These include, but are not limited to, the spinning beach ball ...
Spinner added to the steering wheel of a Rambler Classic. A brodie knob (alternative spelling: brody knob) is a doorknob -shaped handle that attaches to the steering wheel of an automobile or other vehicle or equipment with a steering wheel. Other names for this knob include suicide, necker, granny, knuckle buster, and wheel spinner.
A zoetrope is a pre-film animation device that produces the illusion of motion, by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. A zoetrope is a cylindrical variant of the phénakisticope, an apparatus suggested after the stroboscopic discs were introduced in 1833.
Wheel of Fortune (often known simply as Wheel [b]) is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show has aired continuously since January 1975. Contestants solve word puzzles, similar to those in hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a giant carnival wheel. The current version of the series, which airs in ...