Used in a Sentence

spun

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for spun.

Editorial note

After shooting past Pluto, the probe spun around to view it with the sun behind it.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

the third studio album by Keller Williams, released in 1998.

Meaning at a glance

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N

the third studio album by Keller Williams, released in 1998.

N

a 2002 film directed by Jonas Åkerlund.

N

a 2002 American black comedy crime drama film directed by Jonas Åkerlund from an original screenplay by William De Los Santos and Creighton Vero, based on three days of De Los Santos's life in the Eugene, Oregon drug subculture.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for spun.

N

the third studio album by Keller Williams, released in 1998.

N

a 2002 film directed by Jonas Åkerlund.

N

a 2002 American black comedy crime drama film directed by Jonas Åkerlund from an original screenplay by William De Los Santos and Creighton Vero, based on three days of De Los Santos's life in the Eugene, Oregon drug subculture.

Example sentences

1

After shooting past Pluto, the probe spun around to view it with the sun behind it.

2

Semiconductors were spun off in 2004 to become Freescale, which is now owned by NXP (Philips).

3

And the beauty of it is that it could not be hidden away, spun or silenced.

4

You could probably have it spun up in an afternoon with Ansible or some such.

5

Google's been doing that for years; its been widely noticed since Hangouts was spun out.

6

And this article is spun, whether because the reporter hates freedom or because Silicon Valley sexism makes for a hot story.

7

We were spun a load of marketing disguised as listening and attention.

8

He executed a 60 degree bank/climb at 300 ft AGL and stall/spun the plane and put a 4 foot smoking hole in the ground.

9

I have VMs spun up right now for development, and all of our servers run linux.

10

It would be as if Microsoft spun off Office back in 2002.

11

And everything that was reported was spun to the narrative.

12

I don't think anyone has spun up a factory to make something as sophisticated as a car in less than 14months though.

Quote examples

1

Harvesting the steam is a clever idea, but I don't know if the average consumer is ready for what would be spun as "radioactive Franken-water".

2

I could swear I saw "kubernetes" in the URL when I spun up a ManagedVM not to long ago.

3

Our ASG spun up other instances but health checks reported "Insufficient Data".

4

If these laws did not exist, "super networks" such as this could be defined in software and spun up at a moment's notice like some aws boxes.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use spun in a sentence?

After shooting past Pluto, the probe spun around to view it with the sun behind it.

What does spun mean?

the third studio album by Keller Williams, released in 1998.

What part of speech is spun?

spun is commonly used as N.