Synonyms of the word

spin

• v. (ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another…
• v. (transitive) To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
• v. To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable…
• v. (cricket, of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
• v. (cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
• v. (cooking) To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar.
• v. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent…
• v. To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against…
• v. To move swiftly.
• v. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
• v. To twist (hay) into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition.
• v. (computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
• n. Circular motion.
• n. (physics) A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic…
• n. A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
• n. (sports) Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
• n. A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing and rolling in a spinning…
• n. A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
• n. A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
• n. A single play of a record by a radio station.
• n. (dated) Unmarried woman, spinster.

acrobatics

• n. The art of performing acrobatic gymnastic feats.
• n. A spectacular display of agility.

aerobatics

• n. Spectacular stunts, performed in an airplane or glider. Examples include various types of rolls and loops.

birl

• v. (intransitive, Scotland) To spin.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a floating log) to rotate by treading on it.
• n. (music, bagpipes) A type of grace note movement that quickly switches between low-A and low-G several…
• v. Alternative form of birle.

circumvolve

• v. To revolve or move about.
• v. (transitive) To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.

distort

• v. (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
• v. (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of.
• adj. (obsolete) distorted; misshapen.

drive

• n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
• n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
• n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
• n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
• n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent…
• n. A trip made in a motor vehicle.
• n. A driveway.
• n. A type of public roadway.
• n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
• n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
• n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk,…
• n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with…
• n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
• n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and…
• n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
• n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs,…
• n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
• n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
• n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
• v. (transitive) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
• v. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
• v. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
• v. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
• v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
• v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
• v. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
• v. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
• v. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
• v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
• v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball…
• v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
• v. To be the dominant party where two people are engaged in a sex act.

extend

• v. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
• v. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent.
• v. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
• v. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
• v. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
• v. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
• v. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
• v. (Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ…
• v. (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype…

fabricate

• v. (transitive) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.
• v. (transitive) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.
• v. (transitive) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to…

gyrate

• v. To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve.
• adj. (biology) Having coils or convolutions.

gyration

• n. The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an…
• n. One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
• n. Appropriate arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex.

interpretation

• n. (countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
• n. (countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning.
• n. (uncountable) The power of explaining.
• n. (countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
• n. (countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results…
• n. (countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in…
• n. (countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional…

invent

• v. To design a new process or mechanism.
• v. To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
• v. (obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.

manufacture

• n. The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
• n. Anything made, formed or produced; product.
• n. (figuratively) The process of such production; generation, creation.
• v. To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
• v. (transitive) To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.
• v. (derogatory) To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.

present

• adj. Relating to now, for the time being; current.
• adj. Located in the immediate vicinity.
• adj. (obsolete) Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.
• adj. (obsolete) Not delayed; immediate; instant.
• adj. (dated) Ready; quick in emergency.
• adj. (obsolete) Favorably attentive; propitious.
• adj. Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the…
• adj. Attentive; alert; focused.
• n. The current moment or period of time.
• n. The present tense.
• n. A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other…
• n. (military) The position of a soldier in presenting arms.
• v. To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
• v. (transitive) To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop…
• v. (transitive) To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To charge (a person) with a crime or accusation; to bring before court.
• v. (reflexive) To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
• v. (transitive) To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
• v. (transitive) To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
• v. (transitive) To put on, stage (a play etc.).
• v. (transitive, military) To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
• v. (reflexive) To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the…
• v. (intransitive, with "as") To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).
• v. (transitive) To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
• v. (transitive) To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
• v. (transitive) To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
• v. (transitive) To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
• v. (transitive) To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.

prolong

• v. (transitive) To extend in space or length.
• v. (transitive) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue.
• v. (transitive) To lengthen temporally; to put off to a distant time; to postpone.

protract

• v. To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
• v. To use a protractor.
• v. (surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
• v. To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.
• v. To extend; to protrude.

reel

• n. A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
• n. A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
• n. (textiles) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, —-- for cotton or linen…
• n. (agriculture) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine,…
• n. (film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
• v. To wind on a reel.
• v. To spin or revolve repeatedly.
• v. To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
• v. To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
• v. (reel back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.
• v. To make or cause to reel.
• v. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
• v. To be in shock.
• v. (obsolete) To roll.

rendering

• n. Version; translation.
• n. Sketch, illustration, or painting.
• n. (computer graphics) The process of producing an image from an internal model, or the image thus produced.
• v. present participle of render.

rendition

• n. (now rare) The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.).
• n. (now rare) The handing-over of a person or thing.
• n. Translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work.
• n. (law, chiefly US) Formal deliverance of a verdict.
• n. (law, chiefly US) The handing-over of someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction; extradition.
• n. An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work.
• n. A given visual reproduction of something.
• v. (transitive) To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so…

represent

• v. (transitive) To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit…
• v. (transitive) To portray visually; to delineate.
• v. (transitive) To portray by mimicry or acting; to act the part or character of.
• v. (transitive) To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise…
• v. (politics, transitive) To act as a representative of (a country, state, district etc.).
• v. (transitive) To portray to another using language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement…
• v. (transitive) To give an account of; to describe.
• v. (transitive) To serve as a sign or symbol of.
• v. (transitive) To bring a certain sensation of into the mind; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended;…
• v. (transitive) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something…
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to make up, to be a example of.
• v. (sports, transitive) To participate as a team member.
• v. (intransitive) (African American Vernacular) To constitute a good example or symbol of a group of people;…

revolution

• n. A political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change.
• n. The removal and replacement of a government.
• n. Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis.
• n. A rotation: one complete turn of an object during rotation.
• n. In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.
• n. A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.

revolve

• v. (intransitive) To orbit a central point.
• v. To turn on an axis.
• v. (intransitive) To recur in cycles.
• v. (transitive) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.

ride

• v. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle…
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
• v. (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such…
• v. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
• v. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
• v. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
• v. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
• v. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
• v. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
• n. An instance of riding.
• n. (informal) A vehicle.
• n. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
• n. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
• n. (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
• n. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
• n. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

rotate

• v. (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
• v. (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
• v. (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.
• v. (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.
• v. (transitive) To advance something through a sequence.
• v. (transitive) To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older…
• v. (transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
• adj. Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.

rotation

• n. (chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
• n. A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
• n. A regular variation in a sequence.
• n. (mathematics, geometry) An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least…
• n. (baseball) The set of starting of a team.
• n. (aviation) The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the…
• n. Repeated play on a radio station, etc.

stream

• n. A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
• n. A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
• n. Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
• n. (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
• n. (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
• n. (figuratively) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
• n. (Britain, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
• v. (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
• v. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
• v. (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used…

stunting

• v. present participle of stunt.
• n. (medicine) Stunted growth, often caused by chronic malnutrition.

tailspin

• n. The rapid, uncontrollable descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral.
• n. A severe mental or emotional collapse; emotional breakdown.
• n. Any sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.

twine

• n. A twist; a convolution.
• n. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various…
• n. The act of twining or winding round.
• n. Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
• v. (transitive) To weave together.
• v. (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
• v. (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
• v. (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
• v. (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
• v. (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
• v. (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
• v. (obsolete) To change the direction of.
• v. (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.

twirl

• n. A movement where one spins round elegantly; a pirouette.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a twirl.
• v. (transitive) To rotate rapidly.

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

twisting

• v. present participle of twist.
• n. gerund of twist.
• adj. Having many twists.

whirl

• v. (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
• v. (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
• v. (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
• v. (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
• n. An act of whirling.
• n. Something that whirls.
• n. A confused tumult.
• n. A rapid series of events.
• n. Dizziness or giddiness.
• n. (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial.