spin /spin/

1. To draw out and twist into threads
2. To draw out a thread as spiders do
3. To form by spinning
4. To draw out
5. To make to last (usu with out)
6. To send hurtling
7. To twirl, set revolving rapidly
8. To spin-dry
9. To play (a record, CD, etc)
10. To put a favourable slant on (an item of news, policy, etc)
11. To fish with a swivel or spoonbait
12. To reject at an examination (slang)

1. To practise the art or trade or perform the act of spinning
2. To rotate rapidly
3. To whirl
4. To hurtle
5. To go swiftly, esp on wheels
6. To spurt
7. To stream vigorously
8. To lengthen out, last (usu with out)
9. To present information in a misleadingly favourable form
10. To fish with rotating bait

1. The act or result of spinning
2. A rotatory motion
3. A playing of a record, etc
4. A cycle ride
5. A short trip in a motor car
6. A spurt at high speed
7. A spiral descent (lit and figurative)
8. A favourable slant on an item of news, policy, etc
9. The practice of applying this
10. A period of time, an experience (Aust and NZ informal)
11. The intrinsic angular momentum of an electron, nucleus or elementary particle, quantized in integral multiples of half of Dirac's constant (Planck's constant divided by 4π) (physics)
12. Confused excitement
13. The sum of five dollars (Aust)

spinˈar noun (astronomy)

A rapidly spinning galactic body

spinnˈer noun

1. Someone who or something that spins
2. A spider (Shakespeare)
3. A spinneret
4. A spinning-machine
5. A ball with imparted spin, causing it to deviate after pitching (cricket)
6. A spin bowler
7. An artificial fly that revolves in the water (angling)
8. A rotating display stand (eg for books) in a shop, etc
9. A spin doctor

spinnˈeret noun

1. A spinning organ in spiders, etc
2. A plate with holes from which filaments of plastic material are expressed (also spinnerette)

spinnˈerule /-ə-rool or -rūl/ noun

One of the tubules of a spinneret

spinnˈery noun

A spinning-mill

Spinning® noun

An aerobic exercise performed on stationary indoor bicycles, and involving frequent changes of pace

spinnˈing noun and adjective

spintronˈic adjective

spintronˈics singular noun (physics)

The study of the spin of electrons with a view to creating systems that allow very fast storage and retrieval of information

spin bowler noun

spin bowling noun (cricket)

A style of slower bowling in which the ball is given a twisting motion by the bowler's wrist or fingers, in order to make it deviate after striking the ground

spin doctor or spinˈ-doctor noun (orig US)

Someone (often a public relations expert) employed by a politician, etc to influence public opinion, esp by presenting information to the public in the most favourable light

spin drier or spin dryer noun

A device that dries washed clothes without wringing, to a point ready for ironing, by forcing the water out of them under pressure of centrifugal force in a rapidly revolving drum

spin-dryˈ transitive verb (pat and pap spin-driedˈ or spun-dryˈ).

spinnˈing-house noun (historical)

A place of correction where lewd and incorrigible women were made to spin

spinning jenny noun

1. A machine by which a number of threads can be spun at once
2. A cranefly (dialect)

spinnˈing-mill noun

A factory where thread is spun

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