Word Finder - spin

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Rapid circular motion.

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He put some spin on the cue ball.

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A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.

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A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.

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The politician was mocked in the press for his reliance on spin rather than facts.

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• propaganda

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Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.

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A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing and rolling in a spinning motion.

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A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.

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I'm off out for a spin in my new sports car.

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A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.

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A single play of a record by a radio station.

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A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.

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Unmarried woman, spinster.

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The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.

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To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.

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I spun myself around a few times.

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To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.

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They spin the cotton into thread.

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To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.

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(of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.

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(of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.

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To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar

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To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) 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.

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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.

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To move swiftly.

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to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.

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To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.

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Blood spins from a vein.

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To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.

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To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.

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To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.

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An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the shaft that is rotating and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.

Everything around her started to spin and then went black.

You toil not, neither do you spin, yet God takes care of you and your little ones.

It was found that projectiles fired from a rifled gun deviated laterally from the line of Sights for fire owing to the axial spin of the projectile, and that if the r i fled spin were right-handed, as in the British service, the deviation was to the right.

Take her out for a spin.

The parent will sometimes roll and spin round before you in such a dishabille, that you cannot, for a few moments, detect what kind of creature it is.

It also seemed perfectly reasonable to take the 1962 Nash Metropolitan for a spin around the block, even though it didn't have brakes either.

No telling what tales their ghosts could spin and what unfinished business they left behind.

The living room started to spin and she sat, forcing herself to breathe deeply.

Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a "spin" on my tandem bicycle.

It didn't spin webs and looked more to Evelyn like a mutated cat, but the moment she recalled Kiera's fear, she also realized that the cat-like creature would easily pass as a large spider.

The room began to spin, and she grabbed the edge of the sink.

Her world was beginning to spin as she realized her vision had come true.

The drying, which takes from a week to a fortnight, must be uniform, so that all the fibres may spin equally well.

They collect and spin the indigenous cotton, which is of good quality, and dye it with indigo or other pigments; they also manufacture very handsome shawls.

A card will show the influence of the couple N if projected with a spin in its plane, when it will be found to change its aspect in the air.

Some species, however, are alleged to be carnivorous, and a North American form of the genus Hydropsyche is said to spin around the mouth of its burrow a silken net for the capture of small animal organisms living in the water.

When the larva is fully mature, and ready to change into the pupa condition, it proceeds to spin its cocoon, in which operation it ejects from both glands simultaneously a continuous and reelable thread of 800 FIG.

The rotators caught, pulling them out of the spin, slowed their ascent, then gave out once again.

Conditions of a contaminated surface may easily be distinguished, upon all of which camphor fragments spin vigorously.

Jenner is a complex character, as are most spin bowlers.

Sam is a quality player who will add steel to our batting whist being very useful with his leg spin bowling.

Yes, Faith Prince, star of Spin City, gets a two minute cameo here and good for her.

Cool, gentle hand wash, do not agitate or wring, dry flat, do not spin or tumble dry.

Speed enhancing and spin controlling ionomer casing with a high performance, soft and thin urethane elastomer cover.

Of the world's spin on metal utterly alien continues wpt enterprises was.

When you catch your breath, dare to ride the fearsome gauntlet or spin 360 degrees on King Arthurâs Legendary Sword Excalibur II.

Get into a spin on a human gyroscope, pluck a magical harp and be led astray by a runaway briefcase.

You can even spin the ball, just like a ping pong paddle!

Meanwhile in Britain New Labor government spin doctor apologizes for cynical email advising colleagues to exploit the aftermath of the Twin Towers catastrophe.

As more pairs are broken, the nucleons contribute more single-particle spin to the total angular momentum.

They spin on their heads, bend their legs round their ears, and turn inside out with a dizzying facility which beggars belief.

I am not seeking to spin my way out of the difficulties that currently beset the Conservative Party.

Particles with zero or integer spin are called bosons after Satyendra Bose, who together with Einstein described their kind of statistical mechanics.

The coefficients are obtained by solving the spin Hamiltonian.

Never during his tenure has he been allowed to spin along the mountain parkland of his own adopted hometown.

Help Sonic fight hordes of metal maniacs and do the loop with the Super Sonic Spin Attack.

This added weight creates more rotational inertia, which in turn enables the disk to spin with more constant torque.

Play now for your chance to scoop a huge jackpot from just 5p a spin.

It can be solved analytically in terms of the statistical mechanics of spin lattices.

These relatively long-lived stars may have been feeding the black hole for longer, allowing it to spin up to faster rates.

The electron has an associated spin and so magnetic moment.

The high spin polarization of the mixed valence manganites make them attractive for devices based on spin polarized tunneling and spin injection.

Tottenham Hotspur became the first premier league club to ' spin the managerial merry-go-round ' when they sacked Glenn Hoddle on Sunday afternoon.

Therefore the nominal dipole magnetic field direction is approximately perpendicular to the spin axis.

He believed in reason and rational persuasion, not spin and rhetoric.

We find extremely long-lived modes of spin precession, named ' persistent precessing domains ' (PPD) at the lowest achievable temperatures.

We've let celebrity publicists, political spin doctors and self-styled media relations gurus become the public face of PR.

The modulation frequency corresponds to the Larmor precession frequency of the spin, or the Zeeman energy splitting of the spin quantum state.

You hear a sound from the doorway, and spin around as a stunning redhead walks in with two glasses of sparkling champagne.

The aircraft will then reenter a spin in the original direction.