spin

Speech parts

1. spin - Noun

2. spin - Verb

Meaning

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.

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.

To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.

To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.

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.

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 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.

To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.

To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein.

To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.

The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.

Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

twirl reel twist whirl gyrate turn tell roll relate spiral rotate twisting invent weave revolve
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Antonyms

interpreting hoof untwist paraphrasing hoof it

Hypernyms

present revolution drive represent interpretation rotation

Hyponyms

english pirouette side logrolling centrifuge birling

Phrases with the word

spin a yarn in a flat spin with the spin spin the trencher spin your wheels electron spin resonance system

Derivatives

spun span spinning

Anagrams

snip Insp PINS PSNI NIPS

Examples

Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it. Tupac Shakur

Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. John Dryden

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies. John le Carré

Spinner, spin softly, you disturb me; I am praying. Portuguese Proverb

Women naturally deceive, weep and spin. Italian Proverb

They who are often at the looking-glass seldom spin. Dutch Proverb

Close letter words and terms

spime spimmer spimming spin a tale spin a wheel spin a yarn