Definitions for spin

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IPA: /spɪn/

Spin is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in spin (inps).

Definitions for spin

noun

1. the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
2. a spinning motion given to a ball, wheel, axle, or other object.
3. a downward movement or trend, especially one that is sudden, alarming, etc.:
4. a rapid run, ride, drive, or the like, as for exercise or enjoyment:
5. Slang. a particular viewpoint or bias, especially in the media; slant:
6. Also called tailspin, tail spin. Aeronautics. a maneuver in which an airplane descends in a vertical direction along a helical path of large pitch and small radius at an angle of attack greater than the critical angle, dangerous when not done intentionally or under control.
7. Rocketry. the act of intentionally causing a rocket or guided missile to undergo a roll. a roll so caused.
8. Also called spin angular momentum. Physics. the intrinsic angular momentum characterizing each kind of elementary particle, having one of the values 0, 1/2, 1/3, … when measured in units of Planck's constant divided by 2π.
9. Australian. a run of luck; fate.

Idioms

1. spin one's wheels. wheel (def 27).
2. spin out, (of an automobile) to undergo a spinout.

Verb phrases

1. spin off, to create something new, as a company or assets, without detracting from or affecting the relative size or stability of the original: to derive from or base on something done previously:

verb (used with object)

1. to make (yarn) by drawing out, twisting, and winding fibers:
2. to form (the fibers of any material) into thread or yarn:
3. (of spiders, silkworms, etc.) to produce (a thread, cobweb, gossamer, silk, etc.) by extruding from the body a long, slender filament of a natural viscous matter that hardens in the air.
4. to cause to turn around rapidly, as on an axis; twirl; whirl:
5. Informal. to play (phonograph records):
6. Metalworking. to shape (sheet metal) into a hollow, rounded form by pressure from a tool while rotating the metal on a lathe or wheel.
7. to produce, fabricate, or evolve in a manner suggestive of spinning thread:
8. Rocketry. to cause intentionally (a rocket or guided missile) to undergo a roll.
9. to draw out, protract, or prolong (often followed by out):
10. British. to flunk a student in an examination or a term's work.
11. Slang. to cause to have a particular bias; influence in a certain direction:

verb (used without object)

1. to revolve or rotate rapidly, as the earth or a top.
2. to produce a thread from the body, as spiders or silkworms.
3. to produce yarn or thread by spinning.
4. to move, go, run, ride, or travel rapidly.
5. to have a sensation of whirling; reel:
6. to fish with a spinning or revolving bait.

Origin of spin

before 900; Middle English spinnen to spin yarn, Old English spinnan; cognate with Dutch, German spinnen, Old Norse spinna, Gothic spinnan

Examples for spin

Instead, they spin dark theories that it was all a set-up to make Pakistan look bad.

Another common prank was to spin the cannon in the direction of the major, causing him to leap out of the way.

You'll come down low then, so as you can examine the villages as you spin along.

By response to response we spin round a friend the age-web which lengthens into the death-web.

Miss Priest was no "spin" lingering on in spinsterhood against her will.

The effort to sterilize his image first began when Epstein hired Los Angeles-based spin doctors Sitrick Co.

spin control began, Florida-style: the opinion only covers some counties, some people, some times.

They may find they have more tow on their distaff than they know how to spin.

Here I must bide, and talk and sew and spin, and spin and sew and talk.

Although he brings a Western spin to things, he seems equally inspired by the local sense of style.