spin

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Rapid circular motion. countable,uncountable
    — The car went into a spin.
  2. A special interest of an autistic person. slang
    — 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
  3. Clipping of spinnaker. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping
    — “Frank!” Joe yelled. “Run the spin halyard to the cabin-top winch and pass me the free end!”
  4. A state of confusion or disorientation. countable,uncountable
    — My mind was in a spin.
  5. A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment. countable,uncountable
  6. A novel, creative variation of an existing thing or type; a twist. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  7. A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — spin doctor
  8. Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces. countable,uncountable
  9. A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion. countable,uncountable
  10. 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. countable,uncountable
  11. A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure. countable,uncountable
    — I'm off out for a spin in my new sports car.
  12. A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments. countable,uncountable
    — She left him alone, and went to get Annie a spin of toffee.
  13. A single play of a record; especially, one broadcast by a radio station. countable,uncountable
    — Let's give this classic LP another spin.
  14. A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles. UK,countable,slang,uncountable
    — 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.
  15. An unmarried woman; a spinster. countable,dated,uncountable
    — 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 […]
  16. The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction. ergative
    — I spun myself around a few times.
  2. To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.; To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode). ergative
  3. To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.; To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode). ergative
  4. To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together. transitive
    — They spin the cotton into thread.
  5. To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance. figuratively
    — 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.
  6. To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
    — This pitch is usually preferred for spin than pace.
  7. To move sideways when bouncing.
    — Spinning the ball gave him figures of 7-48.
  8. To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
  9. 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.
    — I spin a thread that you can't see / A web of thoughts best left unclean
  10. 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.
  11. To move swiftly.
    — to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
  12. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
    — Blood spins from a vein.
  13. To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true. intransitive
  14. To rotate into the gravel or managing to remain on the straight as a result of bad weather. intransitive
    — His car spun in the rains just after finishing lap four.
  15. To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey. informal,transitive
    — 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.
  16. To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class. intransitive
  17. To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence. intransitive
  18. To search rapidly. UK,slang,transitive
    — But then again, unless someone struck lucky in those first few hours, there weren't even enough detectives to spin a drum [house].
  19. To draw out tediously; prolong. transitive
    — to spin a yarn
  20. To fish with a swivel or spoonbait.
  21. To reject at an examination; to fail (a student). archaic,slang,transitive

词形变化

spins present,singular,third-person spinning participle,present spun past span past,uncommon spinned nonstandard,past spun participle,past spinned nonstandard,participle,past spins plural spins plural spins plural SpIn alternative

词汇关系

上位词
revolve rotate turn
衍生词
bespin biospin make someone's head spin misspin outspin overspin prespin respin spin a tale spinathon spin a yarn spinback spin bowler spinbox spincast spincoat spindizzy spin doctor spin down spinfection spin in one's grave spinnability spinnable spinner spinny spinoculation spin off spinon spin one's wheels spinonym spinoptics spinorama spinout spin out spinplasmonics spin plates spin round spin someone's wheels spinson spinster spinternet spintext spin the bottle spin the trencher spin up unspin you must spoil before you spin antispin backspin barspin Biellmann spin camel spin cytospin despin electron spin resonance finger spin flat spin forespin free spin headspin in a flat spin in a spin interspin inverted spin isobaric spin isospin isotopic spin I-spin Jackson Haines spin layback spin leg spin macrospin media spin microspin multispin off spin on the spin orthodox spin parallel spin pseudospin quantum spin liquid quantum unit of spin quasispin sidespin sit spin spin bath spin bike spin button spincaloritronics spin chain spin class spin control spin-density wave spin-doctored spin doctoring spindom spindown spin-dried spin-dry spin dryer spin echo spin fishing spin foam spinful Spingate spin glass spin Hall effect spin ice spin label spin-lattice relaxation time spinless spinlike spinlock spin machine spin magnetic moment spinmaster spinmeister spin merchant spin network spin-off spin-o-rama spin polarization spin-polarized spinproof spin quantum number spin room spin-spin energy spin-spin relaxation time spin-top spin trap spin trapping spintronic spintronics spin-up spinward spin wave spinworthy superspin tailspin take for a spin topspin underspin upright spin wheelspin with the spin wrist spin
相关词
spider spindle turn around

词源

词源 1
From Middle English spinnen, from Old English spinnan, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-.
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch, German spinnen (“to spin”), Luxembourgish spannen (“to spin”), Yiddish שפּינען (shpinen, “spin”), Danish spinde (“to spin”), Faroese, Icelandic and Swedish spinna (“to spin”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk spinne (“to spin”), Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (spinnan, “to spin”).
词源 2
Clipping of special interest.
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