different between tailpin vs tailspin

English

Etymology

tail +? pin

Noun

tailpin (plural tailpins)

1. The centre in the spindle of a turning lathe.
2. The endpin of a musical instrument.

Anagrams

• pintail, platini-, ptilina

English

Etymology

tail +? spin

Noun

tailspin (plural tailspins)

1. (aviation) The rapid, uncontrollable descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral.

2. (figuratively) A severe mental or emotional collapse; emotional breakdown.

3. (figuratively) Any sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.
   • 2010 September, Chris Sommers, "Merge", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 77:

     St. Louis, the fourth-largest U.S. city in 1900, is fading fast […] . Jobs, and airline, an educated population—all gone or in a tailspin.

Translations

Verb

tailspin (third-person singular simple present tailspins, present participle tailspinning, simple past and past participle tailspun or tailspinned)

1. Of an aircraft: to go into a rapid, uncontrollable descent in a steep spiral.
2. (figuratively) To go into a sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.

Translations

See also

• downward spiral
• nosedive

Anagrams

• alpinist, anti-slip, antislip, pintails, tailpins