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spin, spin out

(verb) prolong or extend; “spin out a visit”

spin

(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”

spin

(verb) work natural fibers into a thread; “spin silk”

spin

(verb) form a web by making a thread; “spiders spin a fine web”

spin

(verb) make up a story; “spin a yarn”

spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate

(verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one’s own axis; “The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy”

whirl, birl, spin, twirl

(verb) cause to spin; “spin a coin”

spin

(verb) stream in jets, of liquids; “The creek spun its course through the woods”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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spun

simple past tense and past participle of spin

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Spun,

Definition: imp. & p. p. of Spin. Spun hay, hay twisted into ropes for convenient carriage, as on a military expedition.

– Spun silk, a cheap article produced from floss, or short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon. It is often mixed with cotton.

– Spun yarn (Naut.), a line formed of two or more rope-yarns loosely twisted.

SPIN

Spin, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spun (Archaic imp. Span (); p. pr. & vb. n. Spinning.] Etym: [AS. spinnan; akin to D. & G. spinnen, Icel. & Sw. spinna, Dan. spinde, Goth. spinnan, and probably to E. span. sq. root170. Cf. Span, v. t., Spider.]

1. To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material. All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths. Shak.

2. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject. Do you mean that story is tediously spun out Sheridan.

3. To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness. By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives. L'Estrange.

4. To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.

5. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) 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. (Mech.)

Definition: 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. To spin a yarn (Naut.), to tell a story, esp. a long or fabulous tale.

– To spin hay (Mil.), to twist it into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition.

– To spin street yarn, to gad about gossiping. [Collog.]

Spin, v. i.

1. To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness. They neither know to spin, nor care to toll. Prior.

2. To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis. Round about him spun the landscape, Sky and forest reeled together. Longfellow. With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head. G. W. Cable.

3. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein. Shak.

4. To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc. [Colloq.]

Spin, n.

1. The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle. [Colloq.]

2. (Kinematics)

Definition: Velocity of rotation about some specified axis. go for a spin take a spin, take a trip in a wheeled vehicle, usu. an automobile.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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