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| Main Entry: |
spin
[spin]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go around, make go around |
| Synonyms: | gyrate, gyre, oscillate, pendulate, pirouette, purl, reel, revolve, rotate, spiral, swim, turn, twirl, twist, wheel, whirl |
| Antonyms: | stand, steady |
| Main Entry: | draw out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prolong |
| Synonyms: | attract, continue, drag, drag out, elongate, extend, lead on, lengthen, make longer, prolongate, protract, pull, spin, spin out, stretch, string out, tug |
| Antonyms: | clip, shorten |
| Main Entry: | dream up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | concoct plan |
| Synonyms: | contrive, cook up, create, devise, frame, hatch, imagine, invent, make up, spin*, think up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | moving, controlling a vehicle |
| Synonyms: | actuate, advance, bear down, bicycle, bike, burn rubber, burn up the road, coast, cruise, cycle, dash, direct, drag, fire up, floor it, fly, guide, handle, impel, lean on it, make sparks fly, manage, mobilize, motor, operate, pour it on, propel, push, ride, roll, run, send, speed, spin, start, steer, step on it, step on the gas, tailgate, tool*, transport, travel, turn, vehiculate, wheel |
| Antonyms: | halt, stop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | descend; become lower |
| Synonyms: | abate, backslide, be precipitated, break down, buckle, cascade, cave in, collapse, crash, decline, decrease, depreciate, diminish, dip, dive, drag, droop, drop down, dwindle, ease, ebb, flag, flop, fold up, go down, gravitate, hit the dirt, keel over, land, lapse, lessen, nose-dive, pitch, plummet, plunge, recede, regress, relapse, settle, sink, slip, slope, slump, spin, stumble, subside, take a header, tip over, topple, totter, trail, trip, tumble, wane |
| Antonyms: | ascend, climb, go up, rise, scale |
| Main Entry: | flip |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | throw, jump with abandon |
| Synonyms: | cast, chuck, flick, jerk, pitch, snap, spin, toss, twist |
| Main Entry: | gyrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | revolve |
| Synonyms: | circle, circulate, circumduct, gyre, pirouette, purl, roll, rotate, spin, spiral, turn, twirl, whirl, whirligig |
| Main Entry: | knit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | intertwine |
| Synonyms: | affiliate, affix, ally, bind, cable, connect, contract, crochet, fasten, heal, interlace, intermingle, join, link, loop, mend, net, purl, repair, secure, sew, spin, tie, unite, weave, web |
| Notes: | to knit means to make a fabric or garment by intertwining yarn or thread in a series of connected loops by using knitting needles or on a machine, while a nit is the egg or young of a parasitic insect |
| Antonyms: | unknit |
| Main Entry: | narrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | describe, detail |
| Synonyms: | characterize, chronicle, delineate, depict, descant, disclose, discourse, enumerate, expatiate, give an account of, hold forth, make known, paint, picture, portray, proclaim, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, repeat, report, reveal, set forth, spin, state, tell, tell a story, unfold |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, suppress |
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