spin

nl-noun

spin f (plural spinnen, diminutive spinnetje n)

spinnen (plural)
spinnetje (diminutive neuter)


spin

first-person singular present indicative

(in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


spin

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

(aviation, of an aircraft) To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).

(aviation, of a pilot) To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).

I spun myself around a few times.

Spin the ball on the floor.

She spun around and gave him a big smile.

Round about him spun the landscape, / Sky and forest reeled together, / And his strong heart leaped within him, / As the sturgeon leaps and struggles / In a net to break its meshes.

1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Hiawatha’s Fasting”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 76:

They spin the cotton into thread.

Along the Sunny Bank, or Wat’ry Mead, / Ten thouſand Stalks their various Bloſſoms ſpread : / Peaceful and lowly in their native Soil, / They neither know to ſpin, nor care to toil ; / Yet with confeſs’d Magnificence deride / Our vile Attire, and Impotence of Pride.

1718, Matthew Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World”, in Poems on Several Occasions, volume II, Dublin: George Grierson, published 1738, book I, page 115:

(transitive) To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.

But because he is but briefe, and these things of great consequence not to be kept obscure, I shall conceave it nothing above my duty either for the difficulty or the censure that may passe thereon, to communicate such thoughts as I also have had, and do offer them now in this generall labour of reformation, to the candid view both of Church and Magistrate; especially because I see it the hope of good men, that those irregular and unspirituall Courts have spun their utmost date in this Land; and some beter course must now be constituted.

1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:

In every administration there will be spokesmen and public affairs officers who try to spin the news to make the president look good. But this administration is trying to spin scientific data and muzzle scientists toward that end.

2006 February 9, “The Politics of Science”, in The Washington Post, page A22:

This past week[…] Republicans completed their journey through the looking-glass, spinning a new counternarrative of that deadly day.

2021 July 31, Lisa Lerer, Nicholas Fandos, “Already Distorting Jan. 6, G.O.P. Now Concocts Entire Counternarrative”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

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

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

(cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.

(cooking) To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar

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.

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.

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

Blood spins from a vein.

Mount them, and make inciſion in their Hides, / That their hot blood may ſpin in Engliſh eyes, / And doubt them with ſuperfluous courage : ha.

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 86, column 1:

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

(computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.

However, for the past six years he has been spinning his novel blend of progressive house and trance music and is finally on the brink of becoming the next luminary DJ.

2002, CMJ New Music Report, volume 70, number 12:

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

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

(cycling, intransitive)
To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.

But then again, unless someone struck lucky in those first few hours, there weren't even enough detectives to spin a drum [house].

(UK, law enforcement, slang, transitive) To search rapidly.

to spin a yarn

(transitive) To draw out tediously; prolong.

(fishing) To fish with a swivel or spoonbait.

(archaic, transitive, slang) To reject at an examination; to fail (a student).

en-verb

spin (third-person singular simple present spins, present participle spinning, simple past spun or (uncommon) span or (nonstandard) spinned, past participle spun or (nonstandard) spinned)

spins (present singular third-person)
spinning (participle present)
spun (past)
span (past uncommon)
spinned (nonstandard past)
spun (participle past)
spinned (nonstandard participle past)

kehrätä

cooking: to form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar

плета

of spider, silkworm etc: to form from thread

струговам

to shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, as in lathe

suihkuta

to stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet

From Middle English spinnen, from Old English spinnan, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-. Compare Low German spinnen, Dutch spinnen, German spinnen, Danish spinde, Swedish spinna.


spin

The car went into a spin.

The skaters demonstrated their spins.

He put some spin on the cue ball.

My mind was in a spin.

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

The media has been having a field day not only with the usual tired homophobic innuendos (which one has come to expect) but with new spins on queer bashing that might even seem inventive if they were not so hateful.

1991 August 10, Michael Bronski, “'I Know You Are, But What Am I?'”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 4, page 1:

A novel, creative variation of an existing thing or type; a twist.

Try to put a positive spin on the disappointing sales figures.

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

He added: "We've always had spin, especially from Government. But this is not spin. This is dishonesty and so it's our rail media's urgent responsibility to call it out because non-specialist journalists across the country will report this and gradually these untruths will be accepted.

2022 January 26, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Government's IRP claims condemned as "dishonest"”, in RAIL, number 949, page 7:

(countable, uncountable) A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.

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

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

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(mechanical engineering) An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.

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

Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:

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

She left him alone, and went to get Annie a spin of toffee.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 1, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

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

Let's give this classic LP another spin.

Although the Loveless title showed the smallest increase in airplay in the top 10, its number of detections outpaced the nearest bulleted title by more than 350 spins.

1996, Billboard, volume 108, number 12, page 37:

A single play of a record; especially, one broadcast by a radio station.

Mr Weedon explains that this is a cell search - known by prisoners as a spin - and for obvious reasons it has to be carried out without any warning.

(UK, prison slang) A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.

1893, Bithia Mary Croker, "To Let" in "To Let" etc., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906, p. 1, https://archive.org/details/toletcroker00crok
Some years ago, when I was a slim young spin, I came out to India to live with my brother Tom […]

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

en-noun

spin (countable and uncountable, plural spins)


spin

“Frank!” Joe yelled. “Run the spin halyard to the cabin-top winch and pass me the free end!”

2021 22 April, “jdale” (username), Course for Catastrophe, chapter 4


spin

berdly if your friends were homestuck characters who would they be. //sorry autism wants me dead, berdlys my fav character and hs is my spin. you will never heard the end of it from me

2024 April 15, @XxKilla_KrisxX, Twitter:

special interest
special interest#English:_spin

(autism, slang) A special interest of an autistic person.


spin

fo-noun

spin n (genitive singular spins, uncountable)

spins (genitive singular)
spin (indefinite nominative singular)
spinið (definite nominative singular)
spin (accusative indefinite singular)
spinið (accusative definite singular)
spini (dative indefinite singular)
spininum (dative definite singular)
spins (genitive indefinite singular)
spinsins (definite genitive singular)


spin

spin (nominative singular)
spinit (nominative plural)
spin (accusative nominative singular)
spinit (accusative nominative plural)
spinin (accusative genitive singular)
spinit (accusative genitive plural)
spinin (genitive singular)
spinien (genitive plural)
spiniä (partitive singular)
spinejä (partitive plural)
spinissä (inessive singular)
spineissä (inessive plural)
spinistä (elative singular)
spineistä (elative plural)
spiniin (illative singular)
spineihin (illative plural)
spinillä (adessive singular)
spineillä (adessive plural)
spiniltä (ablative singular)
spineiltä (ablative plural)
spinille (allative singular)
spineille (allative plural)
spininä (essive singular)
spineinä (essive plural)
spiniksi (singular translative)
spineiksi (plural translative)
spinittä (abessive singular)
spineittä (abessive plural)
spinein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
spinini (nominative singular)
spinini (nominative plural)
spinini (accusative nominative singular)
spinini (accusative nominative plural)
spinini (accusative genitive singular)
spinini (accusative genitive plural)
spinini (genitive singular)
spinieni (genitive plural)
spiniäni (partitive singular)
spinejäni (partitive plural)
spinissäni (inessive singular)
spineissäni (inessive plural)
spinistäni (elative singular)
spineistäni (elative plural)
spiniini (illative singular)
spineihini (illative plural)
spinilläni (adessive singular)
spineilläni (adessive plural)
spiniltäni (ablative singular)
spineiltäni (ablative plural)
spinilleni (allative singular)
spineilleni (allative plural)
spininäni (essive singular)
spineinäni (essive plural)
spinikseni (singular translative)
spineikseni (plural translative)
spinittäni (abessive singular)
spineittäni (abessive plural)
spineineni (comitative plural)
spinisi (nominative singular)
spinisi (nominative plural)
spinisi (accusative nominative singular)
spinisi (accusative nominative plural)
spinisi (accusative genitive singular)
spinisi (accusative genitive plural)
spinisi (genitive singular)
spiniesi (genitive plural)
spiniäsi (partitive singular)
spinejäsi (partitive plural)
spinissäsi (inessive singular)
spineissäsi (inessive plural)
spinistäsi (elative singular)
spineistäsi (elative plural)
spiniisi (illative singular)
spineihisi (illative plural)
spinilläsi (adessive singular)
spineilläsi (adessive plural)
spiniltäsi (ablative singular)
spineiltäsi (ablative plural)
spinillesi (allative singular)
spineillesi (allative plural)
spininäsi (essive singular)
spineinäsi (essive plural)
spiniksesi (singular translative)
spineiksesi (plural translative)
spinittäsi (abessive singular)
spineittäsi (abessive plural)
spineinesi (comitative plural)
spinimme (nominative singular)
spinimme (nominative plural)
spinimme (accusative nominative singular)
spinimme (accusative nominative plural)
spinimme (accusative genitive singular)
spinimme (accusative genitive plural)
spinimme (genitive singular)
spiniemme (genitive plural)
spiniämme (partitive singular)
spinejämme (partitive plural)
spinissämme (inessive singular)
spineissämme (inessive plural)
spinistämme (elative singular)
spineistämme (elative plural)
spiniimme (illative singular)
spineihimme (illative plural)
spinillämme (adessive singular)
spineillämme (adessive plural)
spiniltämme (ablative singular)
spineiltämme (ablative plural)
spinillemme (allative singular)
spineillemme (allative plural)
spininämme (essive singular)
spineinämme (essive plural)
spiniksemme (singular translative)
spineiksemme (plural translative)
spinittämme (abessive singular)
spineittämme (abessive plural)
spineinemme (comitative plural)
spininne (nominative singular)
spininne (nominative plural)
spininne (accusative nominative singular)
spininne (accusative nominative plural)
spininne (accusative genitive singular)
spininne (accusative genitive plural)
spininne (genitive singular)
spinienne (genitive plural)
spiniänne (partitive singular)
spinejänne (partitive plural)
spinissänne (inessive singular)
spineissänne (inessive plural)
spinistänne (elative singular)
spineistänne (elative plural)
spiniinne (illative singular)
spineihinne (illative plural)
spinillänne (adessive singular)
spineillänne (adessive plural)
spiniltänne (ablative singular)
spineiltänne (ablative plural)
spinillenne (allative singular)
spineillenne (allative plural)
spininänne (essive singular)
spineinänne (essive plural)
spiniksenne (singular translative)
spineiksenne (plural translative)
spinittänne (abessive singular)
spineittänne (abessive plural)
spineinenne (comitative plural)
spininsä (nominative singular)
spininsä (nominative plural)
spininsä (accusative nominative singular)
spininsä (accusative nominative plural)
spininsä (accusative genitive singular)
spininsä (accusative genitive plural)
spininsä (genitive singular)
spiniensä (genitive plural)
spiniään (partitive singular)
spiniänsä (partitive singular)
spinejään (partitive plural)
spinejänsä (partitive plural)
spinissään (inessive singular)
spinissänsä (inessive singular)
spineissään (inessive plural)
spineissänsä (inessive plural)
spinistään (elative singular)
spinistänsä (elative singular)
spineistään (elative plural)
spineistänsä (elative plural)
spiniinsä (illative singular)
spineihinsä (illative plural)
spinillään (adessive singular)
spinillänsä (adessive singular)
spineillään (adessive plural)
spineillänsä (adessive plural)
spiniltään (ablative singular)
spiniltänsä (ablative singular)
spineiltään (ablative plural)
spineiltänsä (ablative plural)
spinilleen (allative singular)
spinillensä (allative singular)
spineilleen (allative plural)
spineillensä (allative plural)
spininään (essive singular)
spininänsä (essive singular)
spineinään (essive plural)
spineinänsä (essive plural)
spinikseen (singular translative)
spiniksensä (singular translative)
spineikseen (plural translative)
spineiksensä (plural translative)
spinittään (abessive singular)
spinittänsä (abessive singular)
spineittään (abessive plural)
spineittänsä (abessive plural)
spineineen (comitative plural)
spineinensä (comitative plural)


spin

Cognate with Kokborok siping (“sesame”).


spin

(physics) spin (quantum angular momentum)

spinek (plural)
spin (nominative singular)
spinek (nominative plural)
spint (accusative singular)
spineket (accusative plural)
spinnek (dative singular)
spineknek (dative plural)
spinnel (instrumental singular)
spinekkel (instrumental plural)
spinért (causal-final singular)
spinekért (causal-final plural)
spinné (singular translative)
spinekké (plural translative)
spinig (singular terminative)
spinekig (plural terminative)
spinként (essive-formal singular)
spinekként (essive-formal plural)
spinben (inessive singular)
spinekben (inessive plural)
spinen (singular superessive)
spineken (plural superessive)
spinnél (adessive singular)
spineknél (adessive plural)
spinbe (illative singular)
spinekbe (illative plural)
spinre (singular sublative)
spinekre (plural sublative)
spinhez (allative singular)
spinekhez (allative plural)
spinből (elative singular)
spinekből (elative plural)
spinről (delative singular)
spinekről (delative plural)
spintől (ablative singular)
spinektől (ablative plural)
spiné (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
spineké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
spinéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
spinekéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
spinem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
spinjeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
spined (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
spinjeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
spinje (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
spinjei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
spinünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
spinjeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
spinetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
spinjeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
spinjük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
spinjeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


spin

(physics) spin (an electron's quantum angular momentum)


spin

spin (nominative singular)
spiny (nominative plural)
spinu (genitive singular)
spinów (genitive plural)
spinowi (dative singular)
spinom (dative plural)
spin (accusative singular)
spiny (accusative plural)
spinem (instrumental singular)
spinami (instrumental plural)
spinie (locative singular)
spinach (locative plural)
spinie (singular vocative)
spiny (plural vocative)

Borrowed from English spin, from Middle English spinnen, from Old English spinnan.


spin

(physics) spin (quantum angular momentum of subatomic particles)


spin

spini (plural)
spin (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
spinul (accusative definite nominative singular)
spini (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
spinii (accusative definite nominative plural)
spin (indefinite singular)
spinului (definite singular)
spini (indefinite plural)
spinilor (definite plural)
spinule (singular vocative)
spinilor (plural vocative)

Inherited from Latin spīnus, from spīna, from Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”). Compare Aromanian schin.


spin

(Southern Scots) Alternative form of spuin


spin

head

spin c (plural spinnen, diminutive spintsje)

From the verb spinne, from Old Frisian spinna, from Proto-West Germanic *spinnan, similar to Dutch spin.