Spin vs Coast - What's the difference?
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(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
* Longfellow
To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
* Prior
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
, 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 stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
To twist (hay) into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition.
(computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
Circular motion.
(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,
(cricket) Describing a spin bowler, or his style of bowling.
(obsolete) The side or edge of something.
The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake.
(obsolete) A region of land; a district or country.
* 1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 2:
*, II.ii.3:
(obsolete) A region of the air or heavens.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
To glide along without adding energy.
(nautical) To sail along a coast.
* Arbuthnot
Applied to human behavior, to make a minimal effort, to continue to do something in a routine way. This implies lack of initiative and effort.
* November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, "
(obsolete) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To sail by or near; to follow the coastline of.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) To conduct along a coast or river bank.
* Hakluyt
(US, dialect) To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice.
As verbs the difference between spin and coast
is that spin is to rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction while coast is to glide along without adding energy.As nouns the difference between spin and coast
is that spin is circular motion while coast is the side or edge of something.As an adjective spin
is describing a spin bowler, or his style of bowling.spin
English
Verb
- 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.
- Round about him spun the landscape, / Sky and forest reeled together.
- They spin the cotton into thread.
- They neither know to spin , nor care to toil.
citation
- to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
- Blood spins from a vein.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (give something a favorable appearance) whitewash, sugarcoat, put lipstick on, gild, blandish, dress upHypernyms
* revolve * rotate * turnDerived terms
* respin * spin one's wheels * spin out * spinsterSee also
* turn aroundNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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 spinAdjective
(-)coast
English
(wikipedia coast)Noun
(en noun)- (Sir Isaac Newton)
- The rocky coast of Maine has few beaches.
- Then Herod perceavynge that he was moocked off the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth and slue all the chyldren that were in bethleem, and in all the costes thereof […].
- P. Crescentius, in his lib.'' 1 ''de agric. cap. 5, is very copious in this subject, how a house should be wholesomely sited, in a good coast , good air, wind, etc.
- the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […].
Hypernyms
* shore, shorelineHyponyms
* oceanfront, seashoreDerived terms
* coast fox * coast guard, coastguard * coast rat * coast-to-coast * coastal * coaster * coastland * coastline * coastward * coastwatcher * coastwiseVerb
(en verb)- When I ran out of gas, fortunately I managed to coast into a nearby gas station.
- The ancients coasted only in their navigation.
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- Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.
- Anon she hears them chant it lustily, / And all in haste she coasteth to the cry.
- (Hakluyt)
- Nearchus, not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore.
- The Indians coasted me along the river.