Crossword-Solution: SPIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spin | v. t. | To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material. |
| Spin | v. t. | To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject. |
| Spin | v. t. | To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness. |
| Spin | v. t. | To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top. |
| Spin | v. t. | To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) 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. |
| Spin | v. t. | 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. |
| Spin | v. i. | To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness. |
| Spin | v. i. | To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis. |
| Spin | v. i. | To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein. |
| Spin | v. i. | To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc. |
| Spin | n. | The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle. |
| Spin | n. | Velocity of rotation about some specified axis. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPIN | anagram | INSP, NIPS, PINS, SNIP |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SPIN (5)
When you’ve swung your length, let it go.” Thea settled the flat piece of rock between her wrist and fingers, faced the cliff wall, stretched her arm in position, whirled round on her left foot to the full stretch of her body, and let the missile spin out over the gulf.
The rich and heavy festoons of cobweb, which it had cost a long ancestral succession of spiders their life’s labor to spin and weave, had been carefully brushed away from the ceiling.
Scott grimaced at the weapon while the Spook commented on it's possible uses at an adult sit'n'spin party.
Her long dishevelled grey hair flew back from her uncovered head; the inebriating delight of gratified vengeance contended in her eyes with the fire of insanity; and she brandished the distaff which she held in her hand, as if she had been one of the Fatal Sisters, who spin and abridge the thread of human life.
Yet I am a young man; and sometimes I have a fancy--the superstitious would call it a presentiment--that my part in life is not yet altogether played; that, somehow and some day, I shall mix again in great affairs, I shall again spin policies in a busy brain, match my wits against my enemies’, brace my muscles to fight a good fight and strike stout blows.
Quotes with SPIN (3)
You make me smile like the sun, fall out bed, sing like a bird, dizzy in my head. Spin like a record crazy on a sunday night. You make me dance like a fool, forget how to breath, shine like the sun buzz like a bee, just the thought of you can drive me wild. Oh you make me smile. -Uncle Kracker-
This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder
And it means snapshots, because that's what all stories I write come down to; each is a snapshot of who I was during however many days and weeks it was written. A fictional reflection of my mind fossilized, set in paper and ink, instead of stone. Memorialized, for better or worse. This is who I was, and this, and this, and this, and that, and most times I look back and wince. I'm rarely kind to who I was. But other times, looking back is bittersweet. Sometimes, I'm even grate…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 758 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).