Spin vs Round - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between spin and round

is that spin is spin while round is a circular or spherical object or part of an object or round can be (archaic|or|dialectal|northern england|scotland) a whisper; whispering.

As an adjective round is

(label) shape.

As a preposition round is

alternative form of around.

As an adverb round is

As a verb round is

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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round
English
(wikipedia round)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ront, runt ( > French rond), representing an earlier , from (etyl) rotundus ( > Italian rotondo, Provençal redon, Spanish redondo etc.). The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding (etyl) noun rond. Compare rotund and rotunda.
Adjective
(en-adj)
(label) Shape.

# Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.

# Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.

# Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.

# Plump.

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#*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round , rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.

Complete, whole, not lacking.

* (1809-1892)

Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon.

(label) Convenient for ing other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.

(label) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.

Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.

* (Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)

the round assertion

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Sir Toby, I must be round with you.

Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.

* (Henry Peacham) (1578-c.1644)

In his satires Horace is quick, round , and pleasant.

Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

Round dealing is the honour of man's nature.

Synonyms
* (circular) circular, cylindrical, discoid * (spherical) spherical * (of corners that lack sharp angles) rounded * (plump) plump, rotund * (not lacking) complete, entire, whole * (of a number) rounded * (pronounced with the mouth open) rounded
Derived terms
* round angle
Derived terms
{{der3, roundabout , round dozen , round-table , round the clock , round trip , rounded vowel}}
Noun
(en noun)
A circular or spherical object or part of an object.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:the golden round [the crown]

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:in labyrinth of many a round self-rolled

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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

*1955 , (William Golding), , Faber and Faber 2005, p.50:

*:All at once the sun was through, a round of dulled silver, racing slantwise through the clouds yet always staying in the same place.

A circular or repetitious route.

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*, chapter=15
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round . But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
A general outburst from a group of people at an event.

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A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.

A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.

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*(Charles Dickens), (Dombey and Son)

*:There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.

A single individual portion or dose of medicine.

*2009 , Patrick Condon, "Boy with cancer, mom return home", Associated Press, printed in Austin American-Statesman , 2009 May 26, page A4:

*:Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs.

(lb) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.

A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.

(lb) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.

*April 19 2002 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville [http://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/]

*:And though Fightville, an MMA documentary from the directors of the fine Iraq War doc Gunner Palace, presents it more than fairly, the sight of a makeshift ring getting constructed on a Louisiana rodeo ground does little to shake the label. Nor do the shots of ringside assistants with spray bottles and rags, mopping up the blood between rounds

(lb) A stage in a competition.

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(lb) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.

A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.

A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.

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(lb) The hindquarters of a bovine.

(lb) A rung, as of a ladder.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise.

*1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,

*:The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.

A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.

A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.

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A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.

* (1666-1735)

*:Women to cards may be compared: we play / A round or two; which used, we throw away.

*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)

*:The feast was served; the bowl was crowned; / To the king's pleasure went the mirthful round .

A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.

*(John Keble) (1792-1866)

*:the trivial round , the common task

A circular dance.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / In a light fantastic round .

Rotation, as in office; succession.

:(Holyday)

A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.

An assembly; a group; a circle.

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A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.

(lb) A vessel filled, as for drinking.

(lb) A round-top.

A round of beef.

Synonyms
* (song) canon * (hindquarters of a bovine) rump
Antonyms
* (rounded inside edge) fillet
Derived terms
* round of applause
Preposition
(English prepositions)
Alternative form of around.

I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat.

* Cowper

The serpent Error twines round human hearts.

Derived terms
* go round * look round
Adverb
(-)

* Sir Walter Scott

The invitations were sent round accordingly.

Verb

To shape something into a curve.

The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.

* Francis Bacon

Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.

* Addison

The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection.

To become shaped into a curve.

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,

The girl's figure, he perceived, was admirably proportioned; she was evidently at the period when the angles of childhood were rounding into the promising curves of adolescence.

To finish; to complete; to fill out.

She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.

* Shakespeare

We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.

To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.

Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred.

To turn past a boundary.

Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.

To turn and attack someone or something (used with on ).

As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.

(baseball) To advance to home plate.

And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.

To go round, pass, go past.

* {{quote-news
, year=2011 , date=March 2 , author=Andy Campbell , title=Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Diouf rounded Zaluska near the byeline and crossed but Daniel Majstorovic headed away and Celtic eventually mopped up the danger.}}
To encircle; to encompass.

* Shakespeare

The inclusive verge / Of golden metal that must round my brow.

To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.

* Shakespeare

The queen your mother rounds apace.

* Tennyson

So rounds he to a separate mind, / From whence clear memory may begin.

(obsolete) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.

* Milton

They nightly rounding walk.

(obsolete) To go or turn round; to wheel about.

(Tennyson)

Derived terms
* round off * round out * round up * round down
See also
* 'round
Etymology 2
From (etyl) rounen, from (etyl) . More at (l).
Verb
(en verb)
(intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.

(transitive, archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.

(Shakespeare)

(Holland)

* Calderwood

The Bishop of Glasgow rounding' in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," he ' rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here?"

Etymology 3
From (etyl) roun, from (etyl) .
Noun
(en noun)
(archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.

(archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.

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