0 to (cause to) turn around and around, especially fast: --
1 to make thread by twisting fibres , or to produce something using thread: --
2 to tell a story, either to deceive someone or for entertainment: --
3 (of a vehicle) to move quickly, or to move quickly in a vehicle: --
4 the movement of something turning round very quickly: --
She put a lot of spin on the ball (= threw or hit it in a way that made it spin).
These clothes need another spin (= to be turned round very fast in a machine to get water out of them) - they're still very wet.
Suddenly, the plane went into a spin.
I hit something on the road, which sent the car into a spin.
5 a way of describing an idea or situation that makes it seem better than it really is, especially in politics: --
Even feathers and the hair of rabbit and humans may have been spun, along with other materials.
One takes from this the idea that it has hardly begun before it swiftly spins along.
Ferromagnetic couplings tend to align the spins, antiferromagnetic couplings make them point in opposite directions.
What, for example, are we to make of the spinning glands of one of the scale-worm groups (the sigalionids), which produce fibres employed in tube-building?
On the proximal arm segment the arm spines almost meet midventrally forming a fan.
On the proximal arm segment the arm spines meet midradially forming a single fan.
The parasite passes the winter inside its host, emerging in the spring and spinning its cocoon inside that of its host.
She also found that women spun, and presumably wove, maguey and cotton in both commoner and elite households.
