I.
noun
1 fast turning movement
ADJECTIVE
▪ quick , rapid
▪ slow
▪ back , side , top (usually topspin , etc.) ( sports )
▪
She puts heavy topspin on her serve.
VERB + SPIN
▪ go into
▪
He had to stop the helicopter from going into a ~.
▪ come out of
▪ put sb/sth in , put sb/sth into , send sb/sth into ( all figurative )
▪
The president's death sent the stock market into a ~.
▪ give sth
▪
Give the clothes another ~.
▪ impart , put
▪
How do you put more ~ on the ball?
SPIN + NOUN
▪ dryer ( BrE )
▪ cycle
▪
We stopped the washing machine before the ~ cycle.
▪
After a bitter divorce, the two actors were thrown into a media ~ cycle. ( AmE , figurative )
▪ bowler , bowling (in cricket)
2 on information
ADJECTIVE
▪ negative , positive
▪ different , fresh , interesting , (whole) new , unique
▪
She's put a whole new ~ on the theme of corporate greed.
▪ contemporary , modern
▪ media , political
▪ Labour , Republican , etc.
VERB + SPIN
▪ add , give sth , put
▪
The chairman tried to put a positive ~ on the closure of the factory.
SPIN + NOUN
▪ doctor
▪
government ~ doctors
▪ machine
▪
the government's ~ machine
PREPOSITION
▪ with a ~
▪
The film retells the famous legend with a Marxist ~.
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ fast , quickly , rapidly
▪
The blade ~s very fast.
▪ freely
▪
The wheel can now ~ freely.
▪ around , round ( esp. BrE )
▪
He spun around to face her.
▪ away , back
VERB + SPIN
▪ begin to , start to
PHRASES
▪ make sb's head ~ ( figurative )
▪
The wine made my head ~.
▪ ~ like a top
▪
The dinghy spun like a top and a huge wave came at me.
▪ ~ on its axis
▪
The Earth ~s on its axis once every 24 hours.
▪ ~ on your heel ( esp. AmE )
▪
She spun on her heel and walked out of the room.
▪ ~ out of control
▪
The car spun out of control.
Spin is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ ball , ↑ car , ↑ earth , ↑ head , ↑ mind , ↑ room , ↑ wheel
Spin is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ degree , ↑ dial , ↑ silk , ↑ tale , ↑ thread , ↑ tune , ↑ web , ↑ wool , ↑ yarn