spin

spin1 [ spın ] (past tense and past participle spun [ spʌn ] ) verb **

▸ 1 turn around quickly

▸ 2 feel confused/sick

▸ 3 present something certain way

▸ 4 go quickly by vehicle

▸ 5 make thread

▸ 6 tell story in exciting way

▸ + PHRASES

1. ) intransitive to turn around and around quickly:

The Earth spins on its axis.

The kids were spinning in circles, making themselves dizzy.

a ) transitive to make something turn around and around:

Spin the wheel with your hand.

b ) intransitive to turn around quickly:

She spun around to face him.

c ) intransitive when a washing machine spins, it squeezes water out of the clothes by turning the drum around and around quickly

2. ) intransitive if your head spins, you feel confused or sick

3. ) transitive INFORMAL to present information in a particular way, especially in a way that makes something seem good or less bad:

How do you think the candidate will spin this story?

4. ) intransitive spin past/by/away to go somewhere quickly in a car, on a bicycle, etc.:

A car went spinning past us.

5. ) intransitive or transitive to twist fibers of a material such as cotton or wool into THREAD to make cloth:

She spins all her own wool.

She taught me how to spin.

a ) transitive if an insect or SPIDER spins something such as a WEB, it makes it from THREAD that it produces in its body:

The class watched the caterpillar spin its cocoon.

6. ) transitive MAINLY LITERARY to tell a story in an interesting and exciting way:

spin a tale/yarn/story

=> HEEL1

,spin `off phrasal verb transitive

1. ) to create something new based on something else that already exists

2. ) to make part of a company into a new independent company

,spin `out phrasal verb transitive

to make something last for a long time, usually longer than is good or necessary:

I tried to spin things out until you arrived.

spin

spin 2 [ spın ] noun *

1. ) count or uncount a quick turning movement around and around:

Give the wheel a spin.

a ) uncount the movement of a ball that turns around and around after it has been thrown or hit:

The ball had a lot of spin on it.

b ) singular the movement of an aircraft that turns as it falls with its front pointing toward the ground:

go into a spin: The airplane suddenly went into a spin.

2. ) count INFORMAL a short trip for pleasure in a car:

go for a spin: We're going for a spin in Al's new car.

take a car for a spin: Why don't you take it (=the car) for a spin?

3. ) singular or uncount INFORMAL a way of giving information, especially a way that makes something seem good or less bad:

Not even the craftiest politician could put a positive spin on this.