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单词 spin
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spinverb

uk/spɪn/us/spɪn/present participle spinning, past tense spun, past participle UK also span

spin verb (TURN)

C1 [ I or T ] to (cause to) turn around and around, especially fast:

The earth spins on its axis.
The roulette players silently watched the wheel spin around/round.
He was killed when his car hit a tree and spun off the road.
Spin the ball (= make it turn around and around as you throw it) and it will change direction when it hits the ground.
head/room spins

If your head or the room spins, you feel as if it is turning around and around, and you cannot balance:

The room started spinning and I felt faint.

More examples

  • The car spun on the ice.
  • She spun the globe, and pointed to the Solomon Islands.
  • The revolving door spun too fast and knocked him over.
  • He spun his partner around until she was dizzy.
  • The children spun the carousel round as fast as they could.

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Revolving, rotating and spinning

  • centrifugal
  • Foucault pendulum
  • go round
  • gyrate
  • in rotation idiom
  • rev
  • rotate
  • rotation
  • round and round idiom
  • rpm
  • sidespin
  • span
  • spin (sb) around
  • swim
  • swing
  • tailspin
  • twiddle
  • twirly
  • wheel
  • wheel round

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Headaches & dizziness

spin verb (MAKE THREAD)

[ I or T ] to make thread by twisting fibres , or to produce something using thread:

The final stage of the production of cotton is when it is spun into thread.
Spiders spin webs.

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Knitting & sewing

  • appliqué
  • backing
  • baste
  • bind
  • bobbin
  • bodkin
  • cable stitch
  • handknitted
  • hem
  • knit
  • knitter
  • knitting
  • needle
  • seamstress
  • sew sth up
  • sewing
  • sewing machine
  • shorten
  • stitch
  • tack

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spin (sb) a story/tale/yarn

to tell a story, either to deceive someone or for entertainment:

He spun some tale about needing to take time off work because his mother was ill.
[ + two objects ] They spun us a story about being in desperate need of money.

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Describing & telling stories

  • narrate
  • narration
  • narrator
  • omniscient narrator
  • personalize
  • personify
  • recitation
  • recite
  • recount 1
  • relate
  • report
  • self-report
  • storyteller

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Lies, lying & hypocrisy

spin verb (DRIVE)

[ I + adv/prep ] informal (of a vehicle) to move quickly, or to move quickly in a vehicle:

We were spinning along, when suddenly one of our tyres burst.
Chris spun past in a flashy new car.

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Moving quickly

  • beetle
  • belt
  • bob
  • bowl down/along sth
  • careen
  • career
  • gallop
  • gun
  • leg
  • make off
  • outran
  • pelt
  • rush
  • scamper
  • scoot
  • scrabble
  • scramble
  • shoot
  • stampede
  • trot

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Idiom(s)

spin a coin
spin out of control
spin your wheels

Phrasal verb(s)

spin (sb) around
spin sth off
spin sth out

spinnoun

uk/spɪn/us/spɪn/

spin noun (TURN)

[ C or U ] the movement of something turning round very quickly:

I hit something on the road, which sent the car into a spin.
Suddenly, the plane went into a spin.
These clothes need another spin (= to be turned round very fast in a machine to get water out of them) - they're still very wet.
She put a lot of spin on the ball (= threw or hit it in a way that made it spin).

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Revolving, rotating and spinning

  • centrifugal
  • Foucault pendulum
  • go round
  • gyrate
  • in rotation idiom
  • rev
  • rotate
  • rotation
  • round and round idiom
  • rpm
  • sidespin
  • span
  • spin (sb) around
  • swim
  • swing
  • tailspin
  • twiddle
  • twirly
  • wheel
  • wheel round

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spin noun (CHANGE IDEAS)

[ S or U ] informal a way of describing an idea or situation that makes it seem better than it really is, especially in politics:

They have tried to put a positive spin on the situation.
This report puts a different spin on the issue.

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Cheating & tricking

  • a numbers game idiom
  • bad faith
  • bamboozle
  • bilk
  • blackmail
  • fleece
  • gag
  • honeyfuggle
  • hoodwink
  • impersonate
  • jape
  • jiggery-pokery
  • ruse
  • scam
  • scammer
  • screw
  • sell sb a bill of goods idiom
  • shaft
  • wool
  • worm

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spin noun (DRIVE)

[ C usually singular ] old-fashioned informal a short journey in a car for pleasure:

Rupert took me for a spin in his new car.

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Journeys

  • adventure
  • break-journey
  • carpool
  • carsick
  • convoy
  • field trip
  • foray
  • grand tour
  • journey
  • mystery tour
  • odyssey
  • outward-bound
  • peregrination
  • pilgrimage
  • ride
  • round trip
  • sail
  • short-haul
  • the long haul idiom
  • trip

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Idiom(s)

in a spin
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