spin vs stagger

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. 

stagger

verb
  • In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter. 

  • To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. 

  • To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. 

  • To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam. 

  • To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. 

  • To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next. 

  • To schedule in intervals or at different times. 

  • To cause to reel or totter. 

noun
  • An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion. 

  • The spacing out of various actions over time. 

  • One who attends a stag night. 

  • The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another. 

  • Bewilderment; perplexity. 

  • The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners. 

  • A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling. 

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