spun
Meaning of spun
verb
- To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
I spun myself around a few times.
- To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
They spin the cotton into thread.
- To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- (of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
- 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.
- To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
- To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
- To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the shaft that is rotating and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.
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Hyphenation of spun
spun
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- spun is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
spun synonyms
Meaning :
blandish, gild, sugarcoat, whitewash
Anagrams of spun
Words that rhyme with spun
finespun, homespun, wirespun, longspun, unspun, electrospun, overspun
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