Spin vs Snip - What's the difference?
spin | snip |
(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 cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
To break off; to snatch away.
* Daniel Defoe
(informal) To circumcise.
* 2001 , David Cohen, The Father's Book: Being a Good Dad in the 21st Century , John WIley & Sons Ltd (2001), ISBN 0470841338,
* 2008 , Ilene Schneider, Talk Dirty Yiddish: Beyond Drek: The Curses, Slang, and Street Lingo You Need to Know When You Speak Yiddish , Adams Media (2008), ISBN 9781598698565,
* 2012 , Tom Hickman, God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis , Square Peg (2012), ISBN 9780224095532,
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The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
A small amount of something; a pinch.
A vasectomy.
A small or weak person, especially a young one.
* 2010 — Ellen Renner, Castle of Shadows , Hachette UK, 2010 ISBN 1408313723.
(obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
(obsolete, slang) A tailor.
As nouns the difference between spin and snip
is that spin is spin while snip is the act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.As a verb snip is
to cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.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.
citation
- 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
(-)snip
English
Verb
(en-verb)- I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.
- The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores but I snipped some of it for my own share.
page 72:
- Circumcised fathers face a special problem. Do you want your son's willy to be that radically different from your own? So, parents should perhaps not be put off. Be good to your son's future lovers and have him snipped .
page 150:
- His children, however, were not snipped , possibly because Princess Diana was opposed to the practice, which is out of fashion in England.
page 144:
- By the outbreak of the First World War such claims had diminished and the medical profession touted circumcision as being 'hygienic' — fathers were not only encouraged to have their newborn sons snipped , but to belatedly enjoy the benefits themselves.
Noun
(en noun)- That wholesale lot on eBay was a snip at $10
- 'Might as well come out now, you little snip, from wherever you be hiding!'
- (Nares)
- (Charles Kingsley)
