Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit and past participle of spin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
spin . - hay twisted into ropes for convenient carriage, as on a military expedition.
- a cheap article produced from floss, or short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon. It is often mixed with cotton.
- (Naut.) a line formed of two or more rope-yarns loosely twisted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
spin .
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Examples
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(wife of the big-boss, made-manager, her new group to run, a new title spun) she thought I was 'fabulous and fun.'
ImpeachBush 2009
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That's a reasonable sampling of the verbiage spun from the author's active imagination.
REVIEW: The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 3 edited by George Mann 2009
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The captain spun back around and yelled something at the guards.
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Instead, you get designer clothing lines spun from the silk of liberated, free-range worms.
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Instead, you get designer clothing lines spun from the silk of liberated, free-range worms.
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I tottered and spun from the exhaustion; my breasts bled from his painful nips: still I perservered, determined to preserve this, his babyness, his need for me.
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The amount of corn spun from a feeder is not intended to "feed" the deer.
Baiting 2009
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The truth lies somewhere between the spin spun by Podesta and Card.
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The amount of corn spun from a feeder is not intended to "feed" the deer.
Baiting 2009
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What should be spun is that even though Obama has his opinion on these issues, he is constantly listening to the opposition, looking for the best ideas and compromises, and acting on them.
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