Spin vs Resolve - What's the difference?
spin | resolve |
(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
* Longfellow
To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
* Prior
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
, 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 stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
To twist (hay) into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition.
(computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
Circular motion.
(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,
(cricket) Describing a spin bowler, or his style of bowling.
To find a solution to (a problem).
To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
* Shakespeare
To solve again.
To make a firm decision to do something.
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To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
(transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
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, title= To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
* Alexander Pope
* Sir Walter Raleigh
* Milton
(music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
(computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
(rare) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
(rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
* Arbuthnot
(obsolete) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
(medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
(obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.
Determination, will power.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=Saj Chowdhury
, title=Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle
, work=BBC Sport
As a noun spin
is spin.As a verb resolve is
(resolver).spin
English
Verb
- 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.
- Round about him spun the landscape, / Sky and forest reeled together.
- They spin the cotton into thread.
- They neither know to spin , nor care to toil.
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- to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
- Blood spins from a vein.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (give something a favorable appearance) whitewash, sugarcoat, put lipstick on, gild, blandish, dress upHypernyms
* revolve * rotate * turnDerived terms
* respin * spin one's wheels * spin out * spinsterSee also
* turn aroundNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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 spinAdjective
(-)resolve
English
Verb
(resolv)- to resolve a riddle
- Resolve my doubt.
- He was resolved by an unexpected event.
- O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
- Ye immortal souls, who once were men, / And now resolved to elements again.
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- Resolve me, Reason, which of these is worse, / Want with a full, or with an empty purse?
- In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it can not be equalled by any region.
- We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.
- When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves , and turns alkaline.
- (Ben Jonson)
Derived terms
* resolvable * resolverReferences
*Noun
(en noun)- ''It took all my resolve to go through with it.
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