spinning off and spun off

[wrongnumber]

The picture is from Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

I know products spinning off from favorite books, meaning products that are inspired from from books, but why is toys spun off from the popular TV program instead of toys spinning off from the popular TV program ?

 

[emsr2d2]

The picture is from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

I know that "products spinning off from favorite books" meaning means products that are inspired from from by books, but why is it "toys spun off from the popular TV program" instead of "toys spinning off from the popular TV program"?

Note my corrections above (and remember that we don't put a space before a question mark.

They're not saying that you have to use "spinning off" when talking about books but use "spun off" when talking about TV programmes. They're just showing a couple of possible ways to use "spin off". They happened to choose two different inspirations for those two sentences.

 

[teechar]

Those are not complete (grammatical) sentences. The dictionary is just giving you example phrases (or skeletons of sentences) to show you how they may be used.

They can be used in various tenses, voices, and moods.
If you look at the last example, you'll see "will be spun off" (future passive).

 

[wrongnumber]

Those are not complete (grammatical) sentences. The dictionary is just giving you example phrases (or skeletons of sentences) to show you how they may be used.

They can be used in various tenses, voices, and moods.
If you look at the last example, you'll see "will be spun off" (future passive).

My question arises from: would "products spun off from favorite books" have the same meaning as "products spinning off from favorite books"? Same for "toys spun off from the popular TV program" and "toys spinning off from the popular TV program."

 

[teechar]

Yes, they mean the same.