expedition vs spin

expedition

noun
  • A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose 

  • An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage 

  • The group of people making such excursion. 

  • A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory. 

  • The process or activities of performing expediter tasks. 

verb
  • To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel. 

spin

noun
  • A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure. 

  • The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class. 

  • Special interest of an autistic person. 

  • Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces. 

  • Rapid circular motion. 

  • A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles. 

  • A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments. 

  • 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. 

  • A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion. 

  • An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal. 

  • A single play of a record by a radio station. 

verb
  • To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class. 

  • To search rapidly. 

  • To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet. 

  • To move sideways when bouncing. 

  • 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 play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey. 

  • To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true. 

  • To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence. 

  • To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar 

  • To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode). 

  • To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance. 

  • To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode). 

  • To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch. 

  • To move swiftly. 

  • 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 rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction. 

  • To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together. 

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