Synonym: pivot, reel, rotate, swirl, turn, twirl, twist, wheel. Similar words: spine, pin, pink, spit, pine, spill, spite, damping. Meaning: [spɪn] n. 1. a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile) 2. the act of rotating rapidly 3. a short drive in a car 4. rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral 5. a distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion). v. 1. revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis 2. stream in jets, of liquids 3. cause to spin 4. make up a story 5. form a web by making a thread 6. work natural fibers into a thread 7. twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation 8. prolong or extend.
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(151) Critics stopped just short of charging the Spin Doctors with malpractice.
(152) The Embraer 120 turboprop is equipped with twin propellers designed to spin at a constant speed.
(153) As a young player I look for subtlety and skill, not big top spin shots all the time.
(154) It has to do with a property of photons analogous to spin.
(155) In part two: Taking a back seat ... Mansell's retirement sends motor racing world in a spin.
(156) The negative values correspond to the spin pointing mainly in the opposite direction to that being measured.
(157) The ants' larvae possess silk glands with which they spin their own pupal cocoons.
(158) Summer's approach spelt out in a breezy spin on Paisley.
(159) She would spin off, like a Texan tornado, and establish her centre of gravity in paradise!
(160) This means that their spins are guaranteed to cancel each other out to give a total spin of zero.
(161) Turning around, as in making a 360-degree motion and seeing the surroundings spin slowly around you.
(162) In this case the instructor brings the aircraft to a stall and applies full rudder as if he is going to spin.
(163) There have been several cases of two-seaters being overstressed by pilots pulling back hard to recover from steep dives after spin recoveries.
(164) Medoc had begun to spin the Draoicht Suan, the ancient and powerful Enchantment of Slumber.
(165) Sarella tried to spin from his grasp,(http://sentencedict.com/spin.html) and he let her go as if surprised to see her move so quickly.
(166) His tee shot lacked the necessary left-to-right spin and finished in one of the two fairway bunkers.
(167) Unlike Bowman, he was able to check its spin by bursts from the nitrogen-jet thrusters on his backpack.
(168) The effect of these gradients s to cause the nuclear magnetic resonance signal to form a series of spin echoes.
(169) Speaking personally, for now, it's always cause for alarm, when they spin round - whatever they look like.
(170) You then sweep hard into the pad and try to spin your partner without leaning forwards or over-committing yourself.
(171) One way of thinking of spin is to imagine the particles as little tops spinning about an axis.
(172) This torque will gradually reduce the axial spin rate of M until it too is in synchronous rotation.
(173) For an absence of spin by a civil service press secretary substitute vicious turn off the wicket from Alastair Campbell.
(174) But topping the sandwich off with enough shredded lettuce to make Cesar Chavez spin in his grave is not.
(175) Puncturing the three blisters received while trying to impress fellow teacup riders with spin speed, get in line for Matterhorn.
(176) The machine began to spin faster and faster, with the grating screech of metal on metal.
(177) The collision caused the earth to spin, giving us day and night.
(178) I moved the bum leg then, limped toward the door, and I started to spin.
(179) The huge variety of shapes is partly fashion and partly an attempt to avoid a phenomenon known as spin out.
(180) The front wheels began to slip, and then the rear wheels hit the ice patch and they too began to spin.
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