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Spin

noun

1.

A swift whirling motion (usually of a missile).

2.

The act of rotating rapidly. Synonyms: twirl, twist, twisting, whirl. "It broke off after much twisting"

3.

A short drive in a car.

4.

Rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral. Synonym: tailspin.

5.

A distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion).

verb

(past span; past part. spun; pres. part. spinning)

1.

Revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis. Synonyms: gyrate, reel, spin around, whirl.

2.

Stream in jets, of liquids.

3.

Cause to spin. Synonyms: birl, twirl, whirl.

4.

Make up a story.

5.

Form a web by making a thread.

6.

Work natural fibers into a thread.

7.

Twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation.

8.

Prolong or extend. Synonym: spin out.

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"Spin" Quotes from Famous Books

... tops with which the Chinese amuse themselves are as large as barrels. It takes three men to spin one, and it gives off a sound that may be heard ...

— China and the Chinese • Herbert Allen Giles

... King the justice to say that it was I, and not he, who closed the dialogue. At this juncture, I became the subject of a remarkable optical delusion; the legs of my stool appeared to me to double up; the car to spin round and round with great violence; and a mist to arise between myself and His Majesty. In addition to these sensations, I felt extremely unwell. I refer these unpleasant effects, either to the paste with which the posters were affixed to the van: which may have contained some small ...

— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens

... exposure to the sun, and his shoes had the flattened and battered condition which is the natural consequence of a long and weary tramp. He walked as if he had no particular objective point, and looked like one of those peripatetic gentry who toil not neither do they spin, the genus "tramp." He complacently puffed a short clay nose-warmer, with his hands in his pockets, and taking first one side and then the other of the road, as his fancy dictated, found himself near the old distillery at the ...

— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton

... Rationalists are like the spiders, they spin all out of their own bowels. But give me a philosopher who, like the bee, hath a middle faculty, gathering from abroad, but digesting that which is gathered by ...

— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst

... that the charges must be proved to the satisfaction of the jury, and called upon Captain Right's advocate to substantiate them. It would spin out our description to a fatiguing length, were we to go through all the cases of oppression, fraud, and cruelty, that were brought home to the unfortunate proctor; against whom, if we are to take him as the exponent of his heartless ...

— The Tithe-Proctor - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton

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