About The Word Spin

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Spin

Spin Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Spin?
[n] rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral spin
[n] the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting" [n] a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile) [v] prolong or extend; "spin out a visit" [v] narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" [v] work natural fibers into a thread; "spin silk" [v] form a web by making a thread, as of spiders [v] make up a story, as in"spin a yarn" [v] revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy" [v] cause to spin; "spin a coin" [v] stream in jets, of liquids; "The creek spun its course through the woods" Synonyms | Synonyms for Spin: birl | gyrate | narrate | recite | recount | reel | spin around | spin out | tailspin | tell | twirl | twirl | twist | twisting | whirl | whirl Related Terms | Find terms related to Spin: See Also | acrobatics | aerobatics | backspin | birling | centrifugate | centrifuge | circumvolve | cook up | create from raw material | create from raw stuff | distort | draw out | English | extend | extrude | fabricate | go around | gyration | inform | invent | logrolling | make up | manufacture | pirouette | prolong | protract | relate | revolution | revolve | rhapsodise | rhapsodize | rotate | rotation | rotation | side | squeeze out | stream | stunt flying | stunting | topspin | twine | twist | well out | whirligig | yarn Spin In Webster's Dictionary \Spin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spun}(Archaic imp. {Span}); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Spinning}.] [AS. spinnan; akin to D. & G.
spinnen, Icel. & Sw. spinna, Dan. spinde, Goth. spinnan, and
probably to E. span. [root]170. Cf. {Span}, v. t., {Spider}.]
1. To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or
machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin
goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a
fibrous material.
All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence
did but fill Ithaca full of moths. --Shak.
2. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by
degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to
spin out large volumes on a subject.
Do you mean that story is tediously spun out?
--Sheridan.
3. To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day
in idleness.
By one delay after another they spin out their whole
lives. --L'Estrange.
4. To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to
spin a top.
5. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads
produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid,
which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said
of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
6. (Mech.) To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow
form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it
with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal
revolves, as in a lathe.
{To spin a yarn} (Naut.), to tell a story, esp. a long or
fabulous tale.
{To spin hay} (Mil.), to twist it into ropes for convenient
carriage on an expedition.
{To spin street yarn}, to gad about gossiping. [Collog.]
\Spin\, v. i. 1. To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness. They neither know to spin, nor care to toll. --Prior. 2. To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis. Round about him spun the landscape, Sky and forest reeled together. --Longfellow. With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head. --G. W. Cable. 3. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein. --Shak. 4. To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc. [Colloq.] \Spin\, n. 1. The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle. [Colloq.] 2. (Kinematics) Velocity of rotation about some specified axis. |
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