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spin English

Meaning spin meaning

What does spin mean?
Definitions in simple English

spin Verb

— If you spin something, then you move it around in circles or rotate it.

spin Noun

— A spin is a comment that tries to bias someone's opinion on something.

spin

— verb (= whirl) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy — verb stream in jets, of liquids The creek spun its course through the woods — verb form a web by making a thread spiders spin a fine web — verb make up a story spin a yarn — verb twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation The President's spokesmen had to spin the story to make it less embarrassing — verb work natural fibers into a thread spin silk — noun (= twist, twisting) the act of rotating rapidly he gave the crank a spin it broke off after much twisting — noun a short drive in a car he took the new car for a spin — noun a distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion) the campaign put a favorable spin on the story — noun a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile) — verb (= spin out) prolong or extend spin out a visit — noun (= tailspin) rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral — verb cause to spin spin a coin

Synonyms spin synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as spin?

spin English » English

rotate whirl turn revolve twirl twist reel roll rotation gyrate weave wind go round coil swivel pivot tailspin swirl run revolution twisting turning troll spin out rewind curl whirling whirl around twine twiddle turn round and round turn over turn around touch tone tinge tincture swing stir spiral spinning spin around revolve extremely fast prolong plait pirouette going round fiddle with curve clue

Topics spin topics

What do people use spin to talk about?
Physical actions Move Move in a direction

Move in a circle
Physical actions Move something

Turn something
Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Spider
Work and occupation Occupation Working with cloth

Spinning thread

  • What words refer to spinning thread?
    spin
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with cloth

Conjugation spin conjugation

How do you conjugate spin?

spin · verb

Examples spin examples

How do I use spin in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Improved medical technology has been one of the spin-offs of the space program.
The room started to spin after I drank too much.
I drank too much and the ground seemed to spin under my feet.
That popular television series is going to spin off two new shows in the fall.
Spiders spin webs.
Silkworms spin cocoons.
After dinner, we took a spin around town in my car.
Can you spin a basketball on your fingertip?
The rapid spin of the Earth along with the molten metallic core produces the Earth's magnetic field.
The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old fairy, issued orders forbidding any one, on pain of death, to spin with a distaff and spindle, or to have a spindle in his house.
In the sunlight my head started to spin, and I lay down to have a rest on the grass.
What makes the earth spin?
The airplane went into a spin.
Spin the wheel around.
Let's go for a spin around the park.
It is dull for me, grandmother, to sit idly hour by hour. My hands want work to do. Go, therefore, and buy me some flax, the best and finest to be found anywhere, and at least I can spin.
The Earth also rotates, or spins, on its axis. It takes one day to spin around one complete time.
The Milky Way is called a spiral galaxy because it has long arms which spin around like a giant pinwheel.

Movie subtitles

I have done things for you that you can't even imagine, things that would make your head spin.
Richard Kind is a 59-year-old actor, best known for his role in Spin City.
Off for a spin.
Everything began to spin before Mr. West's eyes.
Spin it. I'm on the odd.
You spin fairy tales.
Except that we toy a little, spin a little, have a barrel of fun.
Makes my head spin to think how quickly you'd divorce me.
If it wasn't for Norton and his striped-pants ideas about company policy. I'd have the police after her so fast it'd make her head spin.
Mount them and make incision in their hides that their hot blood may spin in English eyes and quench them with superior courage.
Spin the wheel.
You sit around here and you spin your little webs. and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money.
Maybe if it suits you, we can spin it again.
One toss. You wanna spin it?
And both proton and electron also spin around their own axis.
Captain, how long are you planning to spin your wheels there?
We'll spin a coin for them buckles, when I say the word.
I'd have the police after her so fast it'd make her head spin.
The only true things are our memories that we carry with us, the dreams that we spin and the desires, which drive us.
What kind of game is this? Spin the wheel.
You sit around here, and you spin your little webs, and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money.
I kept this. Maybe if it suits you, we can spin it again.
You wanna spin it?
Sometimes you skid, sometimes you go into a spin and smash into a tree and bash your fenders and scrape those fine ideals you brought from home.
You play ball or we'll bust your bubble so quick it'll make your head spin.
Mount them, and make incision in their hides, that their hot blood may spin in English eyes, and quench them with superior courage, ha!
No, it's not a tail spin. I know. What do you know?
Sometimes you skid, sometimes you go into a spin. and smash into a tree. and bash your fenders and scrape those fine ideals you brought from home.
You sure spin some tall tales.
You had me in such a spin I'd have said anything.
In it, I toil not. Neither do I spin.

News and current affairs

These dealt with technical means for enabling centrifuge rotors to spin close to the speed of sound without disintegrating, -essential for making bomb-grade uranium.
In order for the US economy to run deficits with the world, other countries must be willing to spin off a counterbalancing supply of savings.
Though Taylor maintained that he tried to tell the truth in his historical writing, he was quite ready to spin the facts for a good cause.
Ferguson, too, is a wonderful historian - but equally ready to spin when he shifts into political gear.
Borrowers are lured into unsuitable mortgages; firms are stripped of their assets; accountants mislead investors; financial advisers spin narratives of riches from nowhere; and the media promote extravagant claims.
So it was left up to the IPCC's spin-doctors to present the take-home message for journalists.
Reports of Vlad's cruel method - by no means unusual at the time - were already in circulation during his lifetime, and Corvinus probably gave his brutality a particularly bloodthirsty spin.
With the election over, the debate itself has much to teach us about economics, economic policy, and media spin.
No spin can alter this fact.
Is science really about understanding the world, with instrumentality being a matter of fortuitous spin-offs?
Whoever wins will have to choose between deeply transforming Chile's institutions and letting social unrest spin out of control.
If you spin the bottle and create an eddy inside it, the water will flow out much faster and more smoothly.
They are managed by equally professional press handlers, masters of spin and the television sound bite.
But if you allow a financial market to spin wildly until it breaks down, it really does seem that you run the risk of years of economic malaise.
Yet those messages are often more spin than substance.
NEW HAVEN - The spin-doctors are hard at work talking up America's subpar economic recovery.
Spin and frothy markets aside, the healing has only just begun.
And there's the international spin-off of India just being itself.
He announced that he had hired Eyal Arad, a well-known Israeli spin-doctor, to run his presidential campaign.
No one should be fooled by the Kremlin's spin doctors.
The key challenge for New Labour (as Blair re-styled it with his characteristic gift for spin), was the management of the British economy.
A significant strengthening of the dollar would indeed cause serious problems for emerging economies where businesses and governments have taken on large dollar-denominated debts and currency devaluation threatens to spin out of control.

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