Tra từ spin - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

spin [spin spins spun spinning] verb, noun BrE [spɪn] NAmE [spɪn]
verb (spin·ning, spun, spunBrE [spʌn] ; NAmE [spʌn] )

TURN ROUND QUICKLY
1. intransitive, transitive to turn round and round quickly; to make sth do this
•(+ adv./prep.) The plane was spinning out of control.
•a spinning ice skater
• My head is spinning (= I feel as if my head is going around and I can't balance).
•His theories on economics are enough to make your head spin (= make you feel very confused).
•~ (round/around) The dancers spun round and round.
•~ sth (round/around) to spin a ball/coin/wheel
•We placed our bets and the croupier spun the roulette wheel.
2. intransitive, transitive ~ (sb) round/around | + adv./prep. to turn round quickly once; to make sb do this
• He spun around to face her.
• She spun on her heel and walked out.

MAKE THREAD
3. intransitive, transitive to make thread from wool, cotton, silk, etc. by twisting it
•She sat by the window spinning.
•~ sth to spin and knit wool
•~ A into B spinning silk into thread
•~ B from A spinning thread from silk

OF SPIDER/SILKWORM
4. transitive ~ sth to produce thread from its body to make a web or ↑cocoon
•a spider spinning a web
•A silkworm spins a cocoon that can yield 800 metres of pure silk.

DRIVE/TRAVEL QUICKLY
5. intransitive + adv./prep. to drive or travel quickly
•They went spinning along the roads on their bikes.

DRY CLOTHES
6. transitive ~ sth to remove the water from clothes that have just been washed, in a ↑spin dryer

PRESENT INFORMATION
7. transitive ~ sth (as sth) to present information or a situation in a particular way, especially one that makes you or your ideas seem good
•An aide was already spinning the senator's defeat as ‘almost as good as an outright win’.
more at turn/spin on your heel at ↑heel _n.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English spinnan ‘draw out and twist (fibre)’; related to German spinnen. The noun dates from the mid 19th cent.

Thesaurus:
spin verb
1. I, T
•The dancers spun round and round.
turn • • rotate • • revolve • • circle • • roll • • swivel • • orbit • • twist • |especially spoken go around/round (sth) • |written whirl • • twirl •
spin/turn/rotate/revolve/circle/roll/orbit/go/whirl round/around (sth)
spin/turn/rotate/revolve/circle/swivel on sth
spin/turn/rotate/circle/whirl faster (and faster)
2. I, T (always used with an adverb or preposition)
•She spun on her heel and walked out.
turn • • turn (sb/sth) round/around • • swing • • twist • • pivot • |written whirl • • wheel • • swivel •
spin/turn/swing/twist/pivot/whirl/wheel/swivel round/around
spin/turn/swing/whirl/wheel/swivel back/away
spin/turn/turn around/swing/twist/whirl around/wheel/swivel to face sb/sth

Example Bank:
•She spun on her heel and walked out of the room.
•The Earth spins on its axis once every 24 hours.
•The blade spins very fast.
•The car spun out of control.
•The dinghy spun like a top and a huge wave came at me.
•The wheel can now spin freely.
•The wine made my head spin.
•He spun the child roughly around.
•Jo spun the chair round.
•My head was spinning.
•She spun round to see him grinning at her.
•She spun the roulette wheel one last time.
•Spin your partner around.
•The Earth spins around a central axis.
•They spun a coin to see who should go first.
Idioms: ↑in a spin ▪ spin a yarn/tale
Derived: ↑spin off ▪ ↑spin something off ▪ ↑spin something out

noun

FAST TURNING MOVEMENT
1. countable, uncountable a very fast turning movement
•the earth's spin
•the spin of a wheel
•The dance was full of twists and spins.
•Give the washing a short spin.
•We calculated the rate of spin.
2. countable, usually singular if an aircraft goes into a spin, it falls and turns round rapidly

IN CAR
3. countable (informal, becoming old-fashioned)a short ride in a car for pleasure
•Let's go for a spin.
•He asked if he could take the car for a spin.

IN TENNIS/CRICKET
4. uncountable the way you make a ball turn very fast when you throw it or hit it
•She puts a lot of spin on the ball.
•a spin bowler (= in ↑cricket, a ↑bowler who uses spin)
see also ↑topspin

ON INFORMATION
5. singular, uncountable (informal)a way of presenting information or a situation in a particular way, especially one that makes you or your ideas seem good
•Politicians put their own spin on the economic situation.

Word Origin:
Old English spinnan ‘draw out and twist (fibre)’; related to German spinnen. The noun dates from the mid 19th cent.

Example Bank:
•Give the clothes another spin.
•He had to stop the helicopter from going into a spin.
•How do you put more spin on the ball?
•She's put a whole new spin on the theme of corporate greed.
•The chairman tried to put a positive spin on the closure of the factory.
•The film retells the famous legend with a Marxist spin.
•The president's death sent the stock market into a spin.
•We stopped the washing machine before the spin cycle.
•government spin doctors
•the government's spin machine
•He lost everything on the spin of a roulette wheel.
•Only in the last 50 years have we had clocks accurate enough to measure changes in the earth's spin.