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PRONUNCIATION OF SPIN-DRY

spin-dry play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPIN-DRY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spin-Dry is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb spin-dry in English.

WHAT DOES SPIN-DRY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of spin-dry in the English dictionary

The definition of spin-dry in the dictionary is to dry in a spin-dryer.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SPIN-DRY

PRESENT

Present
I spin-dry
you spin-dry
he/she/it spin-dries
we spin-dry
you spin-dry
they spin-dry
Present continuous
I am spin-drying
you are spin-drying
he/she/it is spin-drying
we are spin-drying
you are spin-drying
they are spin-drying
Present perfect
I have spin-dried
you have spin-dried
he/she/it has spin-dried
we have spin-dried
you have spin-dried
they have spin-dried
Present perfect continuous
I have been spin-drying
you have been spin-drying
he/she/it has been spin-drying
we have been spin-drying
you have been spin-drying
they have been spin-drying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I spin-dried
you spin-dried
he/she/it spin-dried
we spin-dried
you spin-dried
they spin-dried
Past continuous
I was spin-drying
you were spin-drying
he/she/it was spin-drying
we were spin-drying
you were spin-drying
they were spin-drying
Past perfect
I had spin-dried
you had spin-dried
he/she/it had spin-dried
we had spin-dried
you had spin-dried
they had spin-dried
Past perfect continuous
I had been spin-drying
you had been spin-drying
he/she/it had been spin-drying
we had been spin-drying
you had been spin-drying
they had been spin-drying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will spin-dry
you will spin-dry
he/she/it will spin-dry
we will spin-dry
you will spin-dry
they will spin-dry
Future continuous
I will be spin-drying
you will be spin-drying
he/she/it will be spin-drying
we will be spin-drying
you will be spin-drying
they will be spin-drying
Future perfect
I will have spin-dried
you will have spin-dried
he/she/it will have spin-dried
we will have spin-dried
you will have spin-dried
they will have spin-dried
Future perfect continuous
I will have been spin-drying
you will have been spin-drying
he/she/it will have been spin-drying
we will have been spin-drying
you will have been spin-drying
they will have been spin-drying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would spin-dry
you would spin-dry
he/she/it would spin-dry
we would spin-dry
you would spin-dry
they would spin-dry
Conditional continuous
I would be spin-drying
you would be spin-drying
he/she/it would be spin-drying
we would be spin-drying
you would be spin-drying
they would be spin-drying
Conditional perfect
I would have spin-dry
you would have spin-dry
he/she/it would have spin-dry
we would have spin-dry
you would have spin-dry
they would have spin-dry
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been spin-drying
you would have been spin-drying
he/she/it would have been spin-drying
we would have been spin-drying
you would have been spin-drying
they would have been spin-drying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you spin-dry
we let´s spin-dry
you spin-dry
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to spin-dry
Past participle
spin-dried
Present Participle
spin-drying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPIN-DRY

spin
spin a yarn
spin bowler
spin doctor
spin machine
spin off
spin out
spin stabilization
spin-dried
spin-dries
spin-dryer
spin-drying
spin-off
spina
spina bifida
spinacene
spinaceous
spinach
spinach beet
spinachlike

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPIN-DRY

air-dry
blow-dry
bone-dry
cut and blow-dry
damp-dry
drip-dry
finger-dry
freeze-dry
medium-dry
rough-dry
smoke-dry
tumble-dry

Synonyms and antonyms of spin-dry in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «spin-dry» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPIN-DRY

Find out the translation of spin-dry to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spin-dry from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spin-dry» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

旋干
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

spin- seca
570 millions of speakers

English

spin-dry
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्पिन शुष्क
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تدور الجافة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

спин- сухой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

centrifuga
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্পিন-শুষ্ক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

essorage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berputar-putar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schleudern
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スピンドライ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

스핀 건조
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Spin-dry
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

spin- khô
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஸ்பின்-உலர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्पिन-कोरडे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kurutma makinesinde kurutmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

centrifugare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

spin- suche
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спін- сухої
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spin uscat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

spin- ξηρό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spin- droë
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spin- torr
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sentrifuger
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spin-dry

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPIN-DRY»

The term «spin-dry» is regularly used and occupies the 72.700 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPIN-DRY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «spin-dry» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «spin-dry» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spin-dry

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPIN-DRY»

Discover the use of spin-dry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spin-dry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Spin Dry: A Novel
A woman undergoes dream deprivation to find the man who has shadowed her life and now her marriage. Spin Dry is a comedy, a satire, an anti-romance, a novel about lost fathers, suburban tract housing, Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot and Fluff.
Greg Hollingshead, 1992
2
Spin Dry
This novel of post-war angst was the first to confirm Greg Hollingshead, one of Canada’s most original storytellers, as a virtuoso writer.
Greg Hollingshead, 2011
3
Eos-29: EOS/ESD Symposium Proceeding 2007
Blow with a box fan ionizer Measurement Results: • High pressure spray rinse: Voltage measured on the wafer =930V • Spin dry: Voltage measured on the wafer = 300V -» 100 V From the results available, it is clear that the wafer is charged up  ...
EOS/ESD Association, 2007
4
Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers for ...
Serena H. Wong. Table A. 2: Metal Clean Table A. 5: Conventional Process APPENDIX A. PROCESS FLOWS. process step time PRX-127 20 min dump rinse (DI H2O) 6 cycles spin dry 180 sec rinse, 240 sec dry PRS-1000 10 min dump rinse ...
Serena H. Wong, 2008
5
Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
... thoroughly rinse, and spin dry bulky filled articles. (I know someone whose machine's spin mechanism was ruined when she washed a heavy comforter in it. ) When you think about drying your comforter in your home dryer, remember that the ...
Cheryl Mendelson, 2005
6
Chembers 21 Century Dictionary
•pin-dry o virb (spin-dried or spun-dry, spin-drying or spinning-dry} to partly dry ( wet laundry) in a spin dryer. spin dry er or spin drier c~ «ou« an electrically powered machine, which can either be part of a washing machine or free- standing, that ...
Allied
7
Laundry: The Home Comforts Book of Caring for Clothes and Linens
... you must choose between hand-washing and machine-washing (choosing a cycle appropriate to the fiber and delicacy of the quilt). If you choose to handwash , you may in certain cases still wish to spin dry in the machine. New, store-bought  ...
Cheryl Mendelson, 2009
8
Selected Topics in Structronics and Mechatronic Systems
The time histories of two simultaneously measured accelerations show that the motion of the washing complex has one dominant frequency, hence the frequency of spin dry. The signals of accelerations in horizontal and vertical direction are ...
‎2003
9
While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and ...
More important, by the early 1960s sales of spin-dry washers were surpassing those of wringer washing machines. By 1970 wringer machines accounted for only 5 percent of sales of new machines; production of wringer washers ceased in ...
David Hemenway, 2009
10
Junior School Dictionary
spin-dry. verb. to squeeze or wring most of the water from wet clothes by spinning them rapidly in a machine Word Family: other forms are spin-dries, spin- dried, spin-drying G spin-drier or spin-dryer noun a machine for spin-drying clothes ...
‎2005

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPIN-DRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spin-dry is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Essex sheriff eyes potential jail detox unit
"We don't want to get in the spin-dry situation where someone gets detoxed for two or three days and then they are left to their own devices," Cousins said. «WCVB Boston, Jul 15»
2
Sweet basil and the bee: Back to basics: The quintessential salads …
Choose plump, heavy green heads of romaine, chop off the stem end and wash and spin-dry the leaves. You can pull the stem out of tender butter lettuce with ... «Oroville Mercury Register, Jul 15»
3
Promote herbs on your plate
To store them, wash and pat or spin-dry in a salad spinner, then wrap them in a damp paper towel and place in a plastic bag or an airtight container. Regardless ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
4
Schooled in salad
Wash and spin-dry leaves. Slice crosswise into thin strips. Measure 2 cups and drop into the salad bowl. 3Cut: Wash and dry lettuce. If leaves are small, use ... «Chicago Tribune, Aug 14»
5
Western Massachusetts' opioid addiction crisis addressed in state …
Spin-dry,” Sullivan said, refers to the typical three- to five-day detoxification period provided for such persons without additional medical treatment or care. «MassLive.com, Apr 14»
6
My beautiful launderette
... carrying cumbersome sacks of wet socks, shirts, trousers, pants, bras (hers, not mine) and all the other bits and pieces to spin-dry that would otherwise have to ... «New Statesman, May 13»
7
Thyme marches on
Separate lettuce leaves; wash and spin-dry. Settle in a shallow bowl, breaking up any large leaves. Snip chives into 1-inch lengths and cast onto lettuce. Scent: «Chicago Tribune, May 13»
8
Woman puts snake on spin-dry cycle in her washing machine
"I put the machine on spin dry and waited," Margie Taylor told the publication. "There was a lot of banging and clonking... when the machine stopped we opened ... «Sowetan, Jun 12»

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