flat spin noun

1. Rotation in a horizontal plane about a vertical axis
2. Confused excitement (informal)

flat tyre noun

A punctured tyre

flatˈware noun

1. Domestic cutlery (N American)
2. Plates and saucers

flat white noun

A white coffee made by adding steamed milk to a’shot of espresso

flatˈworm noun

A tapeworm or other member of the Platyhelminthes

flatˈ-woˈven adjective

(of a rug or carpet) woven with no pile

flat broke (informal)

Having no money whatsoever

flat out

1. At full speed
2. Using every effort

flatten out

To bring (an aeroplane) into a horizontal position

that's flat

I tell you plainly

the flat

Flat racing

spin /spin/

transitive verb (spinnˈing; spun, archaic span; spun)

1. To draw out and twist into threads
2. To draw out a thread as spiders do
3. To form by spinning
4. To draw out
5. To make to last (usu with out)
6. To send hurtling
7. To twirl, set revolving rapidly
8. To spin-dry
9. To play (a record, CD, etc)
10. To put a favourable slant on (an item of news, policy, etc)
11. To fish with a swivel or spoonbait
12. To reject at an examination (slang)

intransitive verb

1. To practise the art or trade or perform the act of spinning
2. To rotate rapidly
3. To whirl
4. To hurtle
5. To go swiftly, esp on wheels
6. To spurt
7. To stream vigorously
8. To lengthen out, last (usu with out)
9. To present information in a misleadingly favourable form
10. To fish with rotating bait

noun

1. The act or result of spinning
2. A rotatory motion
3. A playing of a record, etc
4. A cycle ride
5. A short trip in a motor car
6. A spurt at high speed
7. A spiral descent (lit and figurative)
8. A favourable slant on an item of news, policy, etc
9. The practice of applying this
10. A period of time, an experience (Aust and NZ informal)
11. The intrinsic angular momentum of an electron, nucleus or elementary particle, quantized in integral multiples of half of Dirac's constant (Planck's constant divided by 4π) (physics)
12. Confused excitement
13. The sum of five dollars (Aust)

spinˈar noun (astronomy)

A rapidly spinning galactic body

spinnˈer noun

1. Someone who or something that spins
2. A spider (Shakespeare)
3. A spinneret
4. A spinning-machine
5. A ball with imparted spin, causing it to deviate after pitching (cricket)
6. A spin bowler
7. An artificial fly that revolves in the water (angling)
8. A rotating display stand (eg for books) in a shop, etc
9. A spin doctor

spinnˈeret noun

1. A spinning organ in spiders, etc
2. A plate with holes from which filaments of plastic material are expressed (also spinnerette)

spinnˈerule /-ə-rool or -rūl/ noun

One of the tubules of a spinneret

spinnˈery noun

A spinning-mill

Spinning® noun

An aerobic exercise performed on stationary indoor bicycles, and involving frequent changes of pace

spinnˈing noun and adjective

spintronˈic adjective

spintronˈics singular noun (physics)

The study of the spin of electrons with a view to creating systems that allow very fast storage and retrieval of information

spin bowler noun

spin bowling noun (cricket)

A style of slower bowling in which the ball is given a twisting motion by the bowler's wrist or fingers, in order to make it deviate after striking the ground

spin doctor or spinˈ-doctor noun (orig US)

Someone (often a public relations expert) employed by a politician, etc to influence public opinion, esp by presenting information to the public in the most favourable light

spin drier or spin dryer noun

A device that dries washed clothes without wringing, to a point ready for ironing, by forcing the water out of them under pressure of centrifugal force in a rapidly revolving drum

spin-dryˈ transitive verb (pat and pap spin-driedˈ or spun-dryˈ).

spinnˈing-house noun (historical)

A place of correction where lewd and incorrigible women were made to spin

spinning jenny noun

1. A machine by which a number of threads can be spun at once
2. A cranefly (dialect)

spinnˈing-mill noun

A factory where thread is spun

spinning mule noun

An early form of spinning machine

spinning top see top²

spinnˈing-wheel noun

A machine for spinning yarn, consisting of a wheel driven by the hand or by a treadle, which drives one or two spindles

spinˈ-off noun

1. A process of transference of business on the US stock-market
2. A by-product that proves profitable on its own account
3. An incidental benefit

adjective

(of a product or benefit) arising incidentally from another process

spinˈout noun

A spinning skid that throws a motor vehicle off the road, track, etc

spinˈ-out adjective

Having its origins in another process or organization

spin stabilization noun

The stabilizing of the flight of a projected bullet, space rocket, etc by giving it a spinning motion

spinˈ-the-bottˈle noun

A party game in which an empty bottle is spun on its side in the centre of a circle of people, the person to whom the neck of the bottle points when it comes to rest being chosen to perform some task such as kissing another person

flat spin

A state of panic

on the spin (informal)

In succession, without a break

spin a yarn

To tell a story

spin off (business)

To make (a subsidiary company) independent of the parent company

spin out

1. To prolong, protract
2. (of a vehicle) to execute a spinning skid and leave the road, etc
3. (of an educational establishment) to create (a company) to exploit commercial opportunities identified by its research