Spin vs Around - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between spin and around

is that spin is (cricket) describing a spin bowler, or his style of bowling while around is alive; existing.

As a verb spin

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

As a noun spin

is circular motion.

As a preposition around is

defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing.

As a adverb around is

generally.

spin

English

Verb

(ergative) 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.

The Earth spins with a period of one day.

She spun around and gave him a big smile.

* Longfellow

Round about him spun the landscape, / Sky and forest reeled together.

To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.

They spin the cotton into thread.

* Prior

They neither know to spin , nor care to toil.

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

* {{quote-news, year=2006, date=February 9, title=The Politics of Science, work=The Washington Post citation

, passage=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.}}

(cricket, of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.

(cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.

(cooking) To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar

To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.

To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.

To move swiftly.

to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.

To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.

Blood spins from a vein.

(Shakespeare)

To twist (hay) into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition.

(computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.

Synonyms

* (give something a favorable appearance) whitewash, sugarcoat, put lipstick on, gild, blandish, dress up

Hypernyms

* revolve * rotate * turn

Derived terms

* respin * spin one's wheels * spin out * spinster

Noun

(en noun)

Circular motion.

The car went into a spin .

The skaters demonstrated their spins .

''He put some spin on the cue ball.

One of the planet's moons has a slower spin than the others.

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

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

(sports) Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.

A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing and rolling in a spinning motion.

A brief trip by vehicle.

A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.

* 1913 , DH Lawrence,

She left him alone, and went to get Annie a spin of toffee.

Derived terms

* backspin * Biellmann spin * camel spin * layback spin * media spin * parallel spin * sidespin * sit spin * spin doctor * take for a spin * topspin * upright spin

Adjective

(-)
(cricket) Describing a spin bowler, or his style of bowling.

Anagrams

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around
English
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Alternative forms
* arownd (obsolete)
Preposition
(English prepositions)
Defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Following the perimeter of a specified area and returning to the starting point.

Following a path which curves near an object, with the object on the inside of the curve.

*
, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=But Richmond
Near; in the vicinity of.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
, volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= How algorithms rule the world , passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
At various places in.

* , chapter=10
, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}
Derived terms
* all around * aroundness * around the clock * around the bend * around the corner * around the world * bat around * beat around the bush * get around * go around * hang around * have been around * ring-around-the-rosy * round * run around/run-around/runaround * turn around/turnaround * wrap around/wraparound
Adjective
(-)
Alive; existing.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston
, title= The Adaptable Gas Turbine , passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}

Derived terms
* be around
Adverb
(-)
Generally.

From place to place.

*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The climate of Tibet: Pole-land , passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around , it changes everything.}}
From one state or condition to an opposite or very different one; with a metaphorical change in direction; bringing about awareness or agreement.

(see bring around, come around)

(see bring around, come around)

Partially or completely rotated, including to face in the opposite direction.

Derived terms
(indicating repeated or continuous action) * boss around * fool around * fuck around * goof around * horse around * lie around * lounge around * mess around * monkey around * play around * shop around * sleep around (from place to place) * kick around * know one's way around * (soplink) * (soplink) * (soplink) * (soplink) * push around * (soplink)
See also
* about
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