spinverb
uk/spɪn/us/spɪn/present participle spinning, past tense spun, past participle UK also spanspin verb (TURN)
C1 [ I or T ] to (cause to) turn around and around, especially fast:
If your head or the room spins, you feel as if it is turning around and around, and you cannot balance:
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- 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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spin verb (MAKE THREAD)
[ I or T ] to make thread by twisting fibres , or to produce something using thread:
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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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to tell a story, either to deceive someone or for entertainment:
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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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spin verb (DRIVE)
[ I + adv/prep ] informal (of a vehicle) to move quickly, or to move quickly in a vehicle:
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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)
Phrasal verb(s)
spinnoun
uk/spɪn/us/spɪn/spin noun (TURN)
[ C or U ] the movement of something turning round very quickly:
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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:
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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:
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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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