"spin up" meaning in English

See spin up in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: spins up [present, singular, third-person], spinning up [participle, present], spun up [participle, past], spun up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|spin<,,spun> up}} spin up (third-person singular simple present spins up, present participle spinning up, simple past and past participle spun up)
  1. (computing, intransitive, of a disk drive) To reach a sufficient spinning speed for reads and writes to take place. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-spin_up-en-verb--NCK3G9j Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 34 34 4 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 27 37 31 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 28 33 34 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 34 34 3 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  2. (computing, transitive) To power up, launch, or instantiate. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Computing Derived forms: spin-up [noun], spinup [noun] Coordinate_terms: spin off
    Sense id: en-spin_up-en-verb-RO8OHuTz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 34 34 4 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 30 40 24 5 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 27 37 31 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 28 33 34 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 34 34 3 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  3. (figurative, intransitive) To be brought into full operation; to reach full potential or capacity; to spool up. Tags: figuratively, intransitive
    Sense id: en-spin_up-en-verb-~T50q-06 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Rotation Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 34 34 4 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 27 37 31 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 28 33 34 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 34 34 3 Disambiguation of Rotation: 27 29 41 3
  4. (figurative, transitive) To fabricate. Tags: figuratively, transitive
    Sense id: en-spin_up-en-verb-o4h6JJzf

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1987, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers, volume 6, page 222:",
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          "ref": "2005, R. T. Stone, The Journals Book II: Into the Gulf, page 28:",
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        "(computing, intransitive, of a disk drive) To reach a sufficient spinning speed for reads and writes to take place."
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        "(computing, transitive) To power up, launch, or instantiate."
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          "text": "The auditorium opens and the seats fill. As ever, there's a brief, grey dead time while Wheeler waits for all the machinery of the performance to spin up. The anxious feeling is stronger than usual today. It grips him, an uncharacteristic urge to run away. Sure, he thinks. I could just junk my career, right now. Pack it in and make for the stage door. Maybe the taxi'll still be there.",
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        [
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        [
          "capacity",
          "capacity"
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        "(figurative, intransitive) To be brought into full operation; to reach full potential or capacity; to spool up."
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      ]
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          "ref": "2023 April 1, Jonathan Weisman, “Trump and Fox News, Twin Titans of Politics, Hit With Back-to-Back Rebukes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "For the better part of a decade, Donald J. Trump and his allies at Fox News have beguiled some Americans and enraged others as they spun up an alternative world where elections turned on fraud, one political party oppressed another, and one man stood against his detractors to carry his version of truth to an adoring electorate.",
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        "To fabricate."
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        "(figurative, transitive) To fabricate."
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}
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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        {
          "ref": "1987, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers, volume 6, page 222:",
          "text": "Plated hard disk surfaces are actually harder and more scratch resistant than read-write heads are. The hard magnetic medium effectively protects itself from head crashes caused by contaminants and the drive's spinning up or down.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2005, R. T. Stone, The Journals Book II: Into the Gulf, page 28:",
          "text": "The hard drive spun up. The gray screen flickered. The smiley Mac face appeared and soon I was ready to dazzle the world with The Journals Book II.",
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        "(computing, intransitive, of a disk drive) To reach a sufficient spinning speed for reads and writes to take place."
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        "(computing, transitive) To power up, launch, or instantiate."
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          "text": "The auditorium opens and the seats fill. As ever, there's a brief, grey dead time while Wheeler waits for all the machinery of the performance to spin up. The anxious feeling is stronger than usual today. It grips him, an uncharacteristic urge to run away. Sure, he thinks. I could just junk my career, right now. Pack it in and make for the stage door. Maybe the taxi'll still be there.",
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        "To fabricate."
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        "(figurative, transitive) To fabricate."
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}

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