"despin" meaning in English

See despin in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: de- + spin Etymology templates: {{pre|en|de|spin}} de- + spin Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} despin (uncountable)
  1. The process of despinning. Tags: uncountable Hyponyms: yo-yo despin
    Sense id: en-despin-en-noun-RTDIkR6D Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with de- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 35 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with de-: 80 20

Verb

Forms: despins [present, singular, third-person], despinning [participle, present], despun [participle, past], despun [past]
Etymology: de- + spin Etymology templates: {{pre|en|de|spin}} de- + spin Head templates: {{en-verb||++|despun}} despin (third-person singular simple present despins, present participle despinning, simple past and past participle despun)
  1. To stop or slow rotation.
    Sense id: en-despin-en-verb-1p91ug3r

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for despin meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "spin"
      },
      "expansion": "de- + spin",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "de- + spin",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "despins",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "despinning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "despun",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "despun",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "++",
        "3": "despun"
      },
      "expansion": "despin (third-person singular simple present despins, present participle despinning, simple past and past participle despun)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To stop or slow rotation."
      ],
      "id": "en-despin-en-verb-1p91ug3r",
      "links": [
        [
          "stop",
          "stop"
        ],
        [
          "slow",
          "slow"
        ],
        [
          "rotation",
          "rotation"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "despin"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "spin"
      },
      "expansion": "de- + spin",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "de- + spin",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "despin (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "65 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "80 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with de-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process of despinning."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "yo-yo despin"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-despin-en-noun-RTDIkR6D",
      "links": [
        [
          "despinning",
          "#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "despin"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with de-",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "spin"
      },
      "expansion": "de- + spin",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "de- + spin",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "despins",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "despinning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "despun",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "despun",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "++",
        "3": "despun"
      },
      "expansion": "despin (third-person singular simple present despins, present participle despinning, simple past and past participle despun)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To stop or slow rotation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stop",
          "stop"
        ],
        [
          "slow",
          "slow"
        ],
        [
          "rotation",
          "rotation"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "despin"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with de-",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "spin"
      },
      "expansion": "de- + spin",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "de- + spin",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "despin (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "word": "yo-yo despin"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The process of despinning."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "despinning",
          "#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "despin"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.