Antonyms for spin

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : spin

Phonetic Transcription : spɪn

Definition of spin

Origin : Old English spinnan "draw out and twist fibers into thread," from Proto-Germanic *spenwanan (cf. Old Norse and Old Frisian spinna, Danish spinde, Dutch spinnen, Old High German spinnan, German spinnen, Gothic spinnan), from PIE *(s)pen- "stretch" (cf. Armenian henum "I weave;" Greek patos "garment, literally "that which is spun;" Lithuanian pinu "I plait, braid," spandau "I spin;" Middle Welsh cy-ffiniden "spider;" see span (v.)).
Sense of "to cause to turn rapidly" is from 1610s; meaning "revolve, turn around rapidly" first recorded 1660s. Meaning "attempt to influence reporters' minds after an event has taken place but before they have written about it" seems to have risen to popularity in the 1984 U.S. presidential campaign; e.g. spin doctor, first attested 1984. Spinning wheel is attested from c.1400; spinning-jenny is from 1783 (see jenny); invented by James Hargreaves c.1764-7, patented 1770.

noun circular motion
verb go around, make go around

Example sentences :

By response to response we spin round a friend the age-web which lengthens into the death-web.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

They may find they have more tow on their distaff than they know how to spin.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Here I must bide, and talk and sew and spin, and spin and sew and talk.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

You'll come down low then, so as you can examine the villages as you spin along.
Extract from : « Tom Sawyer Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Miss Priest was no "spin" lingering on in spinsterhood against her will.
Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes

She loved to spin, and no spider ever spun so fine a thread as she on her spinning wheel.
Extract from : « Classic Myths » by Mary Catherine Judd

To spin yarns for Charley's delectation would have been absurd.
Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald

I spin the finest wool of our flocks, and drain the distended udders of our cows.
Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

A top will spin some time in the air because its point is small.
Extract from : « The Machinery of the Universe » by Amos Emerson Dolbear

I have considered them, sir; but I'm foiling still and mother has to spin.
Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine

Synonyms for spin

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