From en.wiktionary.org:
[Spin]
** English
[lang=en]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en]. Compare [nds], [nl], [de],
[da], [sv].
**** Verb
[spins]
1. [en] To rotate , revolve , gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction .
1. [en] To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
2. [en] To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
2. * [en]
3. [en] To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
4. * [en]
5. [en] To present , describe , or interpret , or to introduce a bias or slant , so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1643 | author=w:John Milton | title=Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
|passage=But because he is but briefe, and these things of great consequence
not to be kept obscure, I shall conceave it nothing above my duty either for
the difficulty or the censure that may passe thereon, to communicate such
thoughts as I also have had, and do offer them now in this generall labour of
reformation, to the candid view both of Church and Magistrate; especially
because I see it the hope of good men, that those irregular and unspirituall
Courts have SPUN their utmost date in this Land; and some beter course must
now be constituted.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=February 9, 2006 | title=The Politics of Science | work=The Washington Post | url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/08/AR2006020801991.html | page=A22
|passage=In every administration there will be spokesmen and public affairs
officers who try to SPIN the news to make the president look good. But this
administration is trying to SPIN scientific data and muzzle scientists toward
that end.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
3. [en] To move sideways when bouncing.
4. [en] To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
5. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) 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. * {{ quote-song | en | year=2024 | artist=w:Zeal & Ardor | album= [Greif (album)] | title=Clawing Out | passage=I SPIN a thread that you can't see / A web of thoughts best left unclean
|note=Track 6}}
1. 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.
2. To move swiftly.
3. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
4. * [IV]
5. * [en]
6. [en] To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
7. [en] To rotate into the gravel or managing to remain on the straight as a result of bad weather.
8. [en] To play ( vinyl record s, etc.) as a disc jockey .
9. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2002 | journal=CMJ New Music Report | volume=70 | issue=12
|passage=However, for the past six years he has been SPINNING his novel blend
of progressive house and trance music and is finally on the brink of becoming
the next luminary DJ.}}
1. [en]
1. To use an exercise bicycle , especially as part of a gym class.
2. To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence .
2. [en] To search rapidly.
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2013 | author=Nick Oldham | title=Psycho Alley
|passage=But then again, unless someone struck lucky in those first few hours,
there weren't even enough detectives to SPIN a drum [house].}}
1. [en] To draw out tediously; prolong .
2. [en] To fish with a swivel or spoonbait . < !--Chambers 1908-->
3. [en] To reject at an examination ; to fail (a student). < !--Chambers 1908-->
***** Hypernyms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|title=Terms derived from _spin_ (verb) |respin |spinner|make
someone's head spin |spin bowler |spin doctor|spin plates |spin one's wheels|
spin the trencher |spin out|spin someone's wheels |spinster|spin a yarn|spin
off|spin round|spin the bottle|you must spoil before you spin|spin down|spin
in one's grave|spin up|spin a tale }}
***** Related terms
{{col|en |spider |spindle }}
***** Translations
[to turn around quickly]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [intransitive, continuous] ; [fi] , [fi] [transitive, continuous] ; [fi] , [fi] [intransitive, momentane] ; [fi] , [fi] [transitive, momentane]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi] [of the head, emotions]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc] , [oc]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] ,
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[to make yarn]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Nanai: [gld]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [wool]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Walloon: [wa]
[trans-bottom]
[to present a bias]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] ; [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[to make ball move sideways]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Norwegian: [no]
[trans-bottom]
[to move sideways when bouncing]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[cooking: to form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[of spider, silkworm etc: to form from thread]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] [spider] ; [fi] [silkworm]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[to shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, as in lathe]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
[trans-bottom]
[to move swiftly]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to twist hay into ropes for convenient carriage] [trans-bottom]
[computing: to wait in a loop]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[informal: to play vinyl records]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no] , [no]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
***** See also
- [en]
**** Noun
[~]
1. [en] Rapid circular motion .
2. [en] A state of confusion or disorientation .
3. [en] [en] A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particle s, which also creates a magnetic moment .
4. [en] A novel, creative variation of an existing thing or type; a twist .
5. * [en]
6. [en] [en] A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation .
7. * [en]
8. * [en-GB]
9. [en] [en] Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
10. [en] [en] A condition of flight where a stall ed aircraft is simultaneously pitching , yawing [,] and rolling in a spinning motion .
11. [en] [en] An abnormal condition in journal bearing s where the bearing seize s to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal , destroying both the shaft and the journal.
12. [en] A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
13. * [en]
14. * [en]
15. [en] A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
16. * [passage=She left him alone, and went to get Annie a SPIN of toffee.]
17. [en] A single play of a record ; especially, one broadcast by a radio station.
18. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1996 | journal=Billboard | volume=108 | issue=12 | page=37
|passage=Although the Loveless title showed the smallest increase in airplay
in the top 10, its number of detections outpaced the nearest bulleted title by
more than 350 SPINS.}}
1. [en] [en] A search of a prisoner 's cell for forbidden articles.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2002 | author=w:Jeffrey Archer | title=w:A Prison Diary
|passage=Mr Weedon explains that this is a cell search - known by prisoners as
a SPIN - and for obvious reasons it has to be carried out without any
warning.}}
1. [en] [en] An unmarried woman ; a spinster .
2. * 1893 , [Bithia Mary Croker] , "To Let" in _"To Let" etc._ , Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906, p. 1, see https://archive.org/details/toletcroker00crok
3. *: Some years ago, when I was a slim young SPIN , I came out to India to live with my brother Tom [...]
4. [en] [en] The use of an exercise bicycle , especially as part of a gym class.
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|title=Terms derived from _spin_ (noun)|barspin|despin|electron spin
resonance|finger spin|free spin|I-spin|isotopic spin|leg spin|off
spin|orthodox spin|quantum spin liquid|quantum unit of spin|spin bath|spin
bike|spin button|spin class|spin dryer|spin foam|spin glass|spin ice|spin
label|spin polarization|spin quantum number|spin room|spin trap|spin
trapping|spin wave|spin-density
wave|spin-doctored|spin-dry|spin-o-rama|spin-off|spin-polarized|spin-spin
energy|spin-top|with the spin|wrist spin|in a flat spin|Jackson Haines
spin|spin control|spin doctoring|spin machine|spin merchant|spin-up |backspin
|Biellmann spin |camel spin |flat spin |inverted spin|spin network |layback
spin |media spin |on the spin |parallel spin |sidespin |sit spin |spin chain
|spin doctor|isobaric spin|spin Hall effect|spin magnetic
moment|spin-dried|spin-lattice relaxation time|spin-spin relaxation time |spin
fishing |tailspin |spin echo|take for a spin|in a spin |topspin |upright spin
}}
***** Translations
[circular motion]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[physics: quantum angular momentum]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
[trans-bottom]
[favourable comment or interpretation]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[rotation of a ball in motion]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [El Salvador]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[flight condition]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[brief trip]
- German: [de]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Dutch: [nl]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] .
2. * 2021 22 April, “jdale” (username), _Course for Catastrophe (see https://archiveofourown.org/works/30780464?view_full_work=true) _ , chapter 4:
3. *: “Frank!” Joe yelled. “Run the SPIN halyard to the cabin-top winch and pass me the free end!”
*** Etymology 3
[en].
**** Alternative forms
- [en]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] A [en] of an autistic person.
2. * [en]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Danish
*** Noun
[dc=1]
1. [da]
[en]
** Dutch
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Etymology 1
From [nl].
**** Noun
[f]
1. spider , member of the order [Araneae]
***** Derived terms
{{col3|nl |holenspin |kruisspin |mijnspin |renspin |spinnekop |spinnendoder
|spinnenweb |vogelspin |wolfsspin }}
*** Etymology 2
Borrowed from [nl].
**** Noun
[m]
1. [nl] particle [en]
***** Derived terms
- [nl]
*** Etymology 3
Borrowed from [nl].
**** Noun
[m]
1. political [en] , media spin
***** Derived terms
- [nl]
*** Etymology 4
[nonlemma]
**** Verb
[nl]
1. [nl]
[nl]
** Faroese
*** Etymology
[fo]
*** Pronunciation
- [fo]
*** Noun
[n]
1. sperm
**** Declension
[spin]
**** Synonyms
- [fo]
*** Anagrams
- [fo]
- [fo]
[fo]
** Finnish
*** Alternative forms
- [fi]
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [fi].
*** Pronunciation
[fi-pronunciation]
*** Noun
[fi-noun]
1. [fi] spin
**** Declension
[spin]
**** Derived terms
{{col|fi|title=compounds |spin-ratakytkentä |spinkvanttiluku }}
** French
[lang=fr]
*** Etymology
[fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [spi_n]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [fr] [en]
**** Derived terms
- [fr]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
** Friulian
*** Etymology
From [fur].
*** Noun
[m]
1. thorn bush
**** Related terms
- [fur]
** Garo
*** Etymology
Cognate with [trp].
*** Noun
[grt]
1. sesame
** Hungarian
*** Etymology
From [hu].[1]
*** Pronunciation
- [hu-IPA]
- [hu]
*** Noun
[ek]
1. [hu] [en] [quantum angular momentum]
**** Declension
[spine][spin]
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:TotfalusiEty 2005]
** Italian
*** Etymology
[it].
*** Pronunciation
[it-pr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [it] [en] [an electron's quantum angular momentum]
*** Further reading
- [it]
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Polish
[lang=pl]
*** Pronunciation
[a=Pl-spin.ogg]
*** Etymology 1
[pl] [pl], from [pl], from [pl].
**** Noun
[m-in]
1. [pl] [en] [quantum angular momentum]
***** Declension
[pl-decl-noun-m-in]
***** Derived terms
[pl]
*** Etymology 2
[nonlemma]
**** Noun
[pl]
1. [pl]
*** Further reading
- [R:pl:WSJP]
- [R:pl:PWN]
** Portuguese
*** Etymology
[pt].
*** Pronunciation
[pt=+,sepine]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [pt] [en] [quantum angular momentum of subatomic particles]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro], from [la], from [ro], from [ro]. Compare [rup].
*** Pronunciation
- [ro]
*** Noun
[m]
1. thorn
**** Declension
[pl=spini]
**** Related terms
- [ro]
** Scots
*** Pronunciation
- [sco]
*** Noun
[sco-noun]
1. [sco] [sco]
** Spanish
*** Alternative forms
- [es]
*** Etymology
[es].
*** Pronunciation
[espín]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [es] [en] [quantum angular momentum of subatomic particles]
**** Usage notes
[es-unadapted]
** West Frisian
*** Etymology
From the verb [fy], from [fy], from [fy], similar to [nl].
*** Noun
[c]
1. [fy] spider
2. spiteful, sassy, or vicious woman
**** Further reading
- [94877]
sp