noun
- Creating thread.
verb
- Revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis.
- usage: "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
- synonyms: spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate
- Stream in jets, of liquids.
- usage: "The creek spun its course through the woods"
- synonyms: spin
- Cause to spin.
- usage: "spin a coin"
- Make up a story.
- usage: "spin a yarn"
- synonyms: spin
- Form a web by making a thread.
- usage: "spiders spin a fine web"
- synonyms: spin
- Work natural fibers into a thread.
- usage: "spin silk"
- synonyms: spin
- Twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation.
- usage: "The President's spokesmen had to spin the story to make it less embarrassing"
- synonyms: spin
- Prolong or extend.
- usage: "spin out a visit"
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