spin

To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.

I spun myself around a few times.

Spin the ball on the floor.

To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.

To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.

To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.

They spin the cotton into thread.

Along the Sunny Bank, or Wat’ry Mead, / Ten thouſand Stalks their various Bloſſoms ſpread : / Peaceful and lowly in their native Soil, / They neither know to ſpin, nor care to toil ; / Yet with confeſs’d Magnificence deride / Our vile Attire, and Impotence of Pride.

To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.

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.

In every administration there will be spokesmen and public affairs officers who try to spin the news to make the president look good. But this administration is trying to spin scientific data and muzzle scientists toward that end.

Rapid circular motion.

The car went into a spin.

The skaters demonstrated their spins.

A state of confusion or disorientation.

My mind was in a spin.

A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.

A novel, creative variation of an existing thing or type; a twist.

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.

A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.

spin doctor

Try to put a positive spin on the disappointing sales figures.

Clipping of spinnaker.

“Frank!” Joe yelled. “Run the spin halyard to the cabin-top winch and pass me the free end!”