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- A spinneret.
- (Australia, prison, slang) A mentally disturbed or eccentric person; weirdo.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
- Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
- (often vulgar, slang, film) Primarily in the adult film industry, an woman with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
- An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
- (slang) A record turntable or CD player.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
- A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.
- (pinball) A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.
- (politics, slang) A spin doctor.
- (slang) A disc jockey.
- (cricket) A spin bowler.
- (Jamaica) A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
- Ellipsis of fidget spinner.
- (surfing) A manoeuvre in which the surfer makes a complete 360° turn while riding a surfboard.
- A dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
- (computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
- A conical fairing near the hub of some aircraft propellers or turbofan fans.
- A Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
- fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water
- board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
- A spindle of a wheel.
- A bar for supporting cutting tools.
- An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
- A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
- A grove of trees.
- tree (as opposed to shrub)
- a framework that supports climbing plants
- any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
- (spinning) A conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
- (military, historical) A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
- A quill or tube upon which silk is wound.
- (informal) A police officer or prison guard.
- (architecture, military) A merlon.
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- (intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
- (transitive, originally New York dialectal, informal, African-American Vernacular) To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
- (transitive) To adopt.
- (slang, transitive) To take (a look, glance, etc.).
- (transitive, slang, of a pimp) To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
- (transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
- (transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
- (transitive) To steal.
- take into custody
- take by theft
- (spinning) A sliver.
- An awareness ribbon.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
- (journalism) A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
- A narrow strip or shred.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus with a handle and a long narrow strip of fabric.
- (heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
- (cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
- A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a ribbon.
- (nautical) A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
- A bandsaw.
- An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
- (shipbuilding) Alternative form of ribband.
- A watchspring.
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
- any long object resembling a thin line
- a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
- A firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel.
- An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.
- A pastry which resembles the artificial flowers above, with some filling or topping in the center.
- Any food product consisting of layers (for example of pastry and sweet filling, or of bread and meat) rolled into a spiral, visually similar to a cinnamon roll.
- A cogged (toothed) gear.
- a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind
- perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels
- a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim
- a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire
- The part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun.
- (also collective) A woman, or women considered as a group.
- A race for female horses only.
- Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only.
- A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist.
- the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning
- the sphere of work by women
- (spinning) A component of the cop (“conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle”) in a spinning machine.
- (uncountable) The reddish-brown colour of copper (etymology 1 sense 1).
- (uncountable, chemistry) A reddish-brown metallic chemical element (symbol Cu) with the atomic number 29; also, the metal made up of this element.
- A person working as an informer for the police; a nark
- (countable, entomology) In full copper butterfly: any of various lycaenid butterflies with copper-coloured upperwings, especially those of the genera Lycaena and Paralucia.
- A prisoner who informs on fellow prisoners.
- (chiefly Australia, UK) A police officer, especially one in uniform.
- a copper penny
- a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings
- a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor
- (US, card games) In the game of faro: to place a copper coin, or now usually a small disc or token, on (a playing card) to indicate that a player bets against that card.
- (figurative) To bet against (something).
- To coat or sheathe (something) with copper (etymology 1 sense 1).
- To give (something) a colour by applying a copper salt.
- (chiefly UK) To inform on (someone) to the police; to nark.
- (intransitive, chiefly UK) To inform on someone to the police.
- coat with a layer of copper
- A spinning wheel.
- (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.
- A Catherine wheel firework.
- (mathematics) A type of algebra where division is always defined, and in particular division by zero is meaningful.
- A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
- (nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
- A round portion of cheese.
- (poker slang) The best low hand in Lowball or High-low split poker: either ace-2-3-4-5 or 2-3-4-5-7, depending on the variant.
- A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
- (prosody) The return to a peculiar rhythm at the end of each stanza.
- (figurative) The control of, or ability to steer, the course of events.
- (automotive) A wheelrim.
- (informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
- The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
- (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
- (figurative) A recurring or cyclical course of events.
- A maneuver in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.
- A potter's wheel.
- forces that provide energy and direction
- game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in
- a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
- a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel
- a handwheel that is used for steering
- (transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
- (transitive) To roll along on wheels.
- (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
- (intransitive, grime music) To reload a track; to play a wheel-up.
- (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
- (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
- wheel somebody or something
- ride a bicycle
- change directions as if revolving on a pivot
- move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
- cause to spin
- prolong or extend
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation
- form a web by making a thread
- work natural fibers into a thread
- stream in jets, of liquids
- make up a story
- (aviation, of a pilot) To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- (transitive) To draw out tediously; prolong.
- 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 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 use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- (transitive) To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
- (cricket, of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
- (figurative) To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
- (UK, law enforcement, slang, transitive) To search rapidly.
- (cooking) To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
- (cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
- (computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
- (ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- (fishing) To fish with a swivel or spoonbait.
- To move swiftly.
- (transitive, informal) To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
- (motor racing, of a vehicle, intransitive) To rotate into the gravel or managing to remain on the straight as a result of bad weather.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- a short drive in a car
- the act of rotating rapidly
- rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral
- a distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion)
- a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile)
- (quantum mechanics) A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
- (UK, prison slang) A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
- A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
- (nautical) Clipping of spinnaker.
- (countable, uncountable, figurative) A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
- (autism, slang) A special interest of an autistic person.
- A novel, creative variation of an existing thing or type; a twist.
- (aviation) A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.
- (sports) Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
- (uncountable) The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
- (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.
- Rapid circular motion.
- A state of confusion or disorientation.
- A single play of a record; especially, one broadcast by a radio station.
- cause to spin
- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion
- fly around
- (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
- (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
- (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
- (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
- (engineering) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
- (figuratively) A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
- Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
- a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
- a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
- join during spinning
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- to join or unite the pieces of
- create by putting components or members together
- repair by adding pieces
- (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
- To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
- (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
- a portion of a natural object
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- a share of something
- a separate part of a whole
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- a portable gun
- an instance of some kind
- an item that is an instance of some type
- an artistic or literary composition
- a distance
- a work of art of some artistic value
- a musical work that has been created
- (US, colloquial) A gun.
- An article published in the press.
- (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
- (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
- (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
- (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; (by extension) those with which draughts, backgammon, and other similar board games are played.
- A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
- (Scotland, Ireland, UK, US, dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
- A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
- A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
- An amount of work to be done at one time; a unit of piece work.
- An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
- (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
- (military) An artillery gun.
- (US) A pacifier; a dummy.
- (slang) An ounce of a recreational drug.
- (colloquial) A distance.
- (baseball, uncountable) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with get.
- (rowing) A structured practice row, often used for performance evaluation.
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- A spinneret.
- (Australia, prison, slang) A mentally disturbed or eccentric person; weirdo.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
- Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
- (often vulgar, slang, film) Primarily in the adult film industry, an woman with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
- An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
- (slang) A record turntable or CD player.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
- A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.
- (pinball) A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.
- (politics, slang) A spin doctor.
- (slang) A disc jockey.
- (cricket) A spin bowler.
- (Jamaica) A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
- Ellipsis of fidget spinner.
- (surfing) A manoeuvre in which the surfer makes a complete 360° turn while riding a surfboard.
- A dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
- (computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
- A conical fairing near the hub of some aircraft propellers or turbofan fans.
- A Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
- fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water
- board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
- A spindle of a wheel.
- A bar for supporting cutting tools.
- An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
- A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
- A grove of trees.
- tree (as opposed to shrub)
- a framework that supports climbing plants
- any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
- (spinning) A conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
- (military, historical) A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
- A quill or tube upon which silk is wound.
- (informal) A police officer or prison guard.
- (architecture, military) A merlon.
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- (intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
- (transitive, originally New York dialectal, informal, African-American Vernacular) To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
- (transitive) To adopt.
- (slang, transitive) To take (a look, glance, etc.).
- (transitive, slang, of a pimp) To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
- (transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
- (transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
- (transitive) To steal.
- take into custody
- take by theft
- (spinning) A sliver.
- An awareness ribbon.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
- (journalism) A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
- A narrow strip or shred.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus with a handle and a long narrow strip of fabric.
- (heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
- (cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
- A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a ribbon.
- (nautical) A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
- A bandsaw.
- An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
- (shipbuilding) Alternative form of ribband.
- A watchspring.
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
- any long object resembling a thin line
- a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
- The part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun.
- (also collective) A woman, or women considered as a group.
- A race for female horses only.
- Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only.
- A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist.
- the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning
- the sphere of work by women
- (spinning) A component of the cop (“conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle”) in a spinning machine.
- (uncountable) The reddish-brown colour of copper (etymology 1 sense 1).
- (uncountable, chemistry) A reddish-brown metallic chemical element (symbol Cu) with the atomic number 29; also, the metal made up of this element.
- A person working as an informer for the police; a nark
- (countable, entomology) In full copper butterfly: any of various lycaenid butterflies with copper-coloured upperwings, especially those of the genera Lycaena and Paralucia.
- A prisoner who informs on fellow prisoners.
- (chiefly Australia, UK) A police officer, especially one in uniform.
- a copper penny
- a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings
- a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor
- (US, card games) In the game of faro: to place a copper coin, or now usually a small disc or token, on (a playing card) to indicate that a player bets against that card.
- (figurative) To bet against (something).
- To coat or sheathe (something) with copper (etymology 1 sense 1).
- To give (something) a colour by applying a copper salt.
- (chiefly UK) To inform on (someone) to the police; to nark.
- (intransitive, chiefly UK) To inform on someone to the police.
- coat with a layer of copper
- A spinning wheel.
- (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.
- A Catherine wheel firework.
- (mathematics) A type of algebra where division is always defined, and in particular division by zero is meaningful.
- A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
- (nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
- A round portion of cheese.
- (poker slang) The best low hand in Lowball or High-low split poker: either ace-2-3-4-5 or 2-3-4-5-7, depending on the variant.
- A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
- (prosody) The return to a peculiar rhythm at the end of each stanza.
- (figurative) The control of, or ability to steer, the course of events.
- (automotive) A wheelrim.
- (informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
- The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
- (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
- (figurative) A recurring or cyclical course of events.
- A maneuver in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.
- A potter's wheel.
- forces that provide energy and direction
- game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in
- a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
- a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel
- a handwheel that is used for steering
- (transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
- (transitive) To roll along on wheels.
- (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
- (intransitive, grime music) To reload a track; to play a wheel-up.
- (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
- (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
- wheel somebody or something
- ride a bicycle
- change directions as if revolving on a pivot
- move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
- (engineering) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
- (figuratively) A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
- Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
- a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
- a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
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- A firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel.
- An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.
- A pastry which resembles the artificial flowers above, with some filling or topping in the center.
- Any food product consisting of layers (for example of pastry and sweet filling, or of bread and meat) rolled into a spiral, visually similar to a cinnamon roll.
- A cogged (toothed) gear.
- a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind
- perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels
- a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim
- a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire
- cause to spin
- prolong or extend
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation
- form a web by making a thread
- work natural fibers into a thread
- stream in jets, of liquids
- make up a story
- (aviation, of a pilot) To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- (transitive) To draw out tediously; prolong.
- 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 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 use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- (transitive) To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
- (cricket, of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
- (figurative) To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
- (UK, law enforcement, slang, transitive) To search rapidly.
- (cooking) To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
- (cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
- (computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
- (ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- (fishing) To fish with a swivel or spoonbait.
- To move swiftly.
- (transitive, informal) To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
- (motor racing, of a vehicle, intransitive) To rotate into the gravel or managing to remain on the straight as a result of bad weather.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- a short drive in a car
- the act of rotating rapidly
- rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral
- a distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion)
- a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile)
- (quantum mechanics) A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
- (UK, prison slang) A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
- A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
- (nautical) Clipping of spinnaker.
- (countable, uncountable, figurative) A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
- (autism, slang) A special interest of an autistic person.
- A novel, creative variation of an existing thing or type; a twist.
- (aviation) A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.
- (sports) Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
- (uncountable) The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
- (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.
- Rapid circular motion.
- A state of confusion or disorientation.
- A single play of a record; especially, one broadcast by a radio station.
- cause to spin
- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion
- fly around
- (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
- (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
- (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
- (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
- join during spinning
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- to join or unite the pieces of
- create by putting components or members together
- repair by adding pieces
- (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
- To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
- (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
- a portion of a natural object
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- a share of something
- a separate part of a whole
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- a portable gun
- an instance of some kind
- an item that is an instance of some type
- an artistic or literary composition
- a distance
- a work of art of some artistic value
- a musical work that has been created
- (US, colloquial) A gun.
- An article published in the press.
- (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
- (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
- (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
- (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; (by extension) those with which draughts, backgammon, and other similar board games are played.
- A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
- (Scotland, Ireland, UK, US, dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
- A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
- A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
- An amount of work to be done at one time; a unit of piece work.
- An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
- (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
- (military) An artillery gun.
- (US) A pacifier; a dummy.
- (slang) An ounce of a recreational drug.
- (colloquial) A distance.
- (baseball, uncountable) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with get.
- (rowing) A structured practice row, often used for performance evaluation.