skip vs spin

skip

verb
  • To move by hopping on alternate feet. 

  • To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. 

  • To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface. 

  • To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch. 

  • To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1). 

  • To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface. 

  • To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage). 

  • To have insufficient ink transfer. 

  • To leap about lightly. 

  • Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting). 

  • To jump rope. 

  • To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner. 

  • To leap lightly over. 

noun
  • A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep). 

  • A college servant. 

  • A skip car. 

  • The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks. 

  • An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent. 

  • A leaping, jumping or skipping movement. 

  • The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him. 

  • The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part. 

  • A wheeled basket used in cotton factories. 

  • A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket. 

  • A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found. 

  • A charge of syrup in the pans. 

  • A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once. 

  • skywave propagation 

  • The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain. 

  • The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary. 

  • A beehive. 

  • A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock. 

spin

verb
  • To move sideways when bouncing. 

  • 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 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. 

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

  • 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. 

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