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Collocations for spin - noun

1. fast turning movement

ADJECTIVE

quick, rapid
slow
back, side, top (usually topspin, etc.)
She puts heavy topspin on her serve.

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VERB + spin

go into
He had to stop the helicopter from going into a spin.
come out of
put sb/sth in, put sb/sth into, send sb/sth into (all figurative)
The president's death sent the stock market into a spin.
give sth
Give the clothes another spin.
impart, put
How do you put more spin on the ball?

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spin + NOUN

dryer (BrE)
cycle
We stopped the washing machine before the spin cycle.
After a bitter divorce, the two actors were thrown into a media spin cycle. (AmE,figurative)
bowler, bowling (in cricket)

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2. on information

ADJECTIVE

negative, positive
different, fresh, interesting, (whole) new, unique
She's put a whole new spin on the theme of corporate greed.
contemporary, modern
media, political
Labour, Republican, etc.

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VERB + spin

add, give sth, put
The chairman tried to put a positive spin on the closure of the factory.

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spin + NOUN

doctor
government spin doctors
machine
the government's spin machine

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PREPOSITION

with a spin
The film retells the famous legend with a Marxist spin.

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Collocations for spin - verb

ADVERB

fast, quickly, rapidly
The blade spins very fast.
freely
The wheel can now spin freely.
around, round (esp. BrE)
He spun around to face her.
away, back

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VERB + spin

begin to, start to

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PHRASES

make sb's head spin (figurative)
The wine made my head spin.
spin like a top
The dinghy spun like a top and a huge wave came at me.
spin on its axis
The Earth spins on its axis once every 24 hours.
spin on your heel (esp. AmE)
She spun on her heel and walked out of the room.
spin out of control
The car spun out of control.

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Spin is used with these nouns as the subject:
ball, car, earth, head, mind, room, wheel

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Spin is used with these nouns as the object:
degree, dial, silk, tale, thread, tune, web, wool, yarn

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