TO SPIN

Definition: SPIN

SPIN

Noun

1. A swift whirling motion (usually of a missile).

2. The act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting".

3. Rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral spin.

Verb

1. Revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy".

2. Stream in jets, of liquids: "The creek spun its course through the woods".

3. Cause to spin; "spin a coin".

4. Make up a story, as in "spin a yarn".

5. Form a web by making a thread, as of spiders.

6. Work natural fibers into a thread; "spin silk".

7. Narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child".

8. Prolong or extend; "spin out a visit".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Mechanical Engineering

Post & Telecom

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: TO SPIN

Where did you learn how to spin, Noh-Face? (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi; writing credit: Cindy Davis Hewitt; Donald H. Hewitt)

Waiting for her head to spin around. (Parenthood; writing credit: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Paddlewheel" by Hassan Sedaghat. Use the arrow keys to spin it.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "TO SPIN": begin to spin round ♦ To spin a yarn ♦ To spin hay ♦ To spin street yarn. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

завъртам се (begin to spin round, whirl). (various references)

Czech

roztoèit se (begin to spin round). (various references)

Danish

starte (boot). (various references)

Dutch

in tolvlucht gaan, aandraaien van de schroef, aandraaien van de rotor. (various references)

French

se mettre en vrille, lancer une hélice, lancer le rotor. (various references)

German

sich abtrudeln lassen, durchdrehen (race, snap, spin), anlaufen (accrue, begin, call at, come running up, initiate, mist up, mount up, open, put into, rise, start, start off, start running, steam up, take a run-up, take off, tarnish, to initiate, touch at, warm up), ankreiseln. (various references)

Greek 

να γυρίσει η έλικα, να γυρίσει η μηχανή, να γυρίσει η πτερωτή, να γυρίσει το στροφείο, να μπεί σε περιδίνηση, να εισέλθει σε περιδίνηση. (various references)

Hungarian

sodor (current, drift, span, spin, spun, to drift, to float, to plait, to twine, to twirl, to twist, wake), perdít (span, spun), perdül (span, spun, to pirouette), pörget (span, spun, to screw, to twirl, to whirl), pörög (gyrate, spun, to gyrate, to turn round and round, to twirl, to whirl), megperdít (span, spun), megperdül (span, spun), megforgat (plough, plow, span, spun, Ted, to plough up), megfordul (span, spun, to about-face, to come about, to haul, to roll over, to turn for end, to turn over, to veer, to veer round, to wheel round, turn, turn around), forog (gyrate, revolve, rotate, slue, spun, swung, to gyrate, to hinge, to swing, to swivel, to traverse, to turn round and round, to twirl, to whirl, turn), forgat (distort, revolve, rotate, span, spin, spun, swivel, to feather, to indorse, to rotate, to swivel, to turn over, to twirl, turn over, twirl, wield), fordul (slew, span, spun, to appeal, to apply to the proper quarter, to corner, to haul up, to hinge, to refer, to slew, to slue, to take a corner, to turn, turn, turn round). (various references)

Italian

mettersi in vite, mettere in rotazione, far girare l'elica, far girare il rotore. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

紡ぐ (to make yarn). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひねくる (to change wording, to fiddle with, to twirl), つむぐ (to make yarn). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay inspay

Portuguese

pôr-se em "vrille", iniciar a rotação, arrancar (abstract, cut up, disroot, drag out, extract, feather, force, jerk, lug, pick, pinch, pluck, pull, pull out, rip, start running, take away, tear off, tweezer, yank). (various references)

Russian 

завертеться (begin to spin round). (various references)

Scottish

ruighean (wool-roll ready to spin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zavrteti (begin to spin round, spin, swing). (various references)

Spanish

iniciar la rotación, entrar en barrena, arrancar una hélice, arrancar el rotor. (various references)

zar. (various references)

neo. (various references)

filare. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pinots, pintos, piston, pitons, points, postin, spinto.

-1 letter: opsin, pinot, pinto, pints, pions, piton, point, posit, topis.

-2 letters: into, ions, nips, nits, opts, pins, pint, pion, piso, pits, pois, pons, post, pots, snip, snit, snot, spin, spit, spot, stop, tins, tips, tons, topi, tops.

-3 letters: ins, ion, its, nip, nit, nos, not, ons, ops, opt, pin, pis, pit, poi, pot, psi.

+1 letter: inkpots, options, pintoes, pistons, pointes, pontils, posting, postins, potions, spinout, spintos, stoping, topspin, tropins.

+2 letters: appoints, atropins, captions, diplonts, kingpost, maintops, mispoint, nepotism, nepotist, opuntias, pactions, phoniest, pimentos, pinitols, pintados, pintanos, pointers, pontiffs, porniest, portions, positing, position, positron, postings, potlines, proteins, ptomains, saponite, satinpod, signpost, slipknot, sopiting, sorption, spinouts, spittoon, sporting, spotting, spouting, stinkpot, stomping, stooping, stopping, synoptic, tampions, tompions, toplines, toppings, topspins, township, tropines, unspoilt, utopians.