spin

/spɪn/ verb [I, T] (present participle spinning, past tense and past participle spun)

Translation

TURN › If something spins or you spin something, it turns around and around quickly.

dönmek, döndürmek

The car spun across the road.1627

MAKE THREAD › to make thread by twisting together cotton, wool, etc

(yün, pamuk) eğirmek

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spin (sb) around/round phrasal verb

› If you spin around, or someone spins you around, your body turns quickly to face the opposite direction.

kensi ekseninde dönmek; etrafında dönmek

She spun round to see what had happened.1627

spin sth out phrasal verb

› to make something such as a story or an activity last as long as possible

uzattıkça uzatmak, gereksiz yere uzatmak

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(Definition of spin verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

everything that exists or is possible

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