spin
/spɪn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.38 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
verb
To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
verb
To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
verb
To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
verb
To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
verb
To move sideways when bouncing.
Example Sentences
- "I spun myself around a few times."
- "Spin the ball on the floor."
- "She spun around and gave him a big smile."
- "Round about him spun the landscape, / Sky and forest reeled together, / And his strong heart leaped within him, / As the sturgeon leaps and struggles / In a net to break its meshes."
- ""Shall we spin for it?" "Might as well." "All right. Here goes. Heads you first and I second. Tails, vice versa." Bill nodded. The coin spun in the air. Jimmy bent to look at it."
- "They spin the cotton into thread."
Etymology
From Middle English spinnen, from Old English spinnan, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-. Cognates Cognate with Dutch, German spinnen (“to spin”), Luxembourgish spannen (“to spin”), Yiddish שפּינען (shpinen, “spin”), Danish spinde (“to spin”), Faroese, Icelandic and Swedish spinna (“to spin”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk spinne (“to spin”), Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (spinnan, “to spin”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: spinnen, spinnan, *spinnaną, *(s)penh₁-