英和和英

名詞

spinout (複数形 spinouts)

1. (automotive) A skid that results in a car rotating so as not to be oriented in the direction of linear motion.
   • 2009 March 8, Robert F. Worth, “Saudis Race All Night, Fueled by Boredom”, New York Times:

     Sulayman al-Shulukhi, left, races his modified Subaru Impreza every weekend night and delights in describing wrecks and spinouts.

2. (business) The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.

同意語

• (formation of a subsidiary company): spin-off

アナグラム

• pinouts

動詞

spin out (三人称単数 現在形 spins out, 現在分詞 spinning out, 過去形および過去分詞形 spun out)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To prolong; to make longer (in time).
   • 1941 October, “Notes and News: L.N.E.R. Locomotive Performance in War Conditions”, in Railway Magazine, page 473:

     After Ashby summit it was difficult to spin out the more than ample schedule allowance.

2. (automotive, of a vehicle, intransitive) To rotate about the yaw axis while skidding, such that the vehicle's longitudinal axis is no longer aligned with its direction of linear motion.

   Two cars spun out on the icy road and wound up in a ditch.

3. (automotive, of a driver, transitive, intransitive) To cause one's vehicle to rotate about the yaw axis while skidding, such that the vehicle's longitudinal axis is no longer aligned with its direction of linear motion; or to experience such behavior from one's vehicle.

   The Formula One driver spun out on a tight curve.

   Bob accidentally spun out his Mercedes when he hit a patch of black ice.