Spin vs Stagger - What's the difference?

Spin is a related term of stagger.

As nouns the difference between spin and stagger

is that spin is spin while stagger is an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

As a verb stagger is

sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.

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.

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stagger
English

Noun
(en noun)
An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers.

bewilderment; perplexity.

In motorsport, the difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners. Stock Car Racing magazine article on stagger, February 2009

Verb
(en verb)
sway unsteadily, reel, or totter

# In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.

She began to stagger across the room.

#* Dryden

Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.

# To cause to reel or totter.

The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.

#* Shakespeare

That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire / That staggers thus my person.

# To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.

#* Addison

The enemy staggers .

doubt, waver, be shocked

# To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.

#* Bible, Rom. iv. 20

He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.

# To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.

He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.

#* Howell

Whosoever will read the story of this war will find himself much staggered .

#* Burke

Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility.

Multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856 Etymology] in [[:w:Online Etymology Dictionary, Online Etymology Dictionary]).

# To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.

# To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.

We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.

# To schedule in intervals.

We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.

See also
* bestagger * staggeringly * staggers
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