Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A circular or spiral motion or form, especially a circular ocean current.
- intransitive verb To whirl.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A circle or ring; a revolution of a moving body; a circular or spiral turn.
- noun In anatomy, a gyrus: as, a cerebral gyre.
- To turn; gyrate; revolve.
- To turn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.
- verb obsolete To turn round; to gyrate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
swirling vortex - noun a
circular current , especially alarge-scale ocean current - verb intransitive to
whirl
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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While historically this debris has biodegraded, the gyre is now accumulating vast quantities of plastic and marine debris.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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While historically this debris has biodegraded, the gyre is now accumulating vast quantities of plastic and marine debris.
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A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents.
Brandon Boyd: Sustainability Isn't a Four-Letter Word -- It's a Fourteen Letter Word Brandon Boyd 2011
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A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents.
Brandon Boyd: Sustainability Isn't a Four-Letter Word -- It's a Fourteen Letter Word Brandon Boyd 2011
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A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents.
Brandon Boyd: Sustainability Isn't a Four-Letter Word -- It's a Fourteen Letter Word Brandon Boyd 2011
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A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents.
Brandon Boyd: Sustainability Isn't a Four-Letter Word -- It's a Fourteen Letter Word Brandon Boyd 2011
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A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents.
Brandon Boyd: Sustainability Isn't a Four-Letter Word -- It's a Fourteen Letter Word Brandon Boyd 2011
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This rotating pattern, known as a gyre, occurs as a result of the clockwise winds that typically occur in this region.
Arctic Ocean 2008
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Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, which is some sort of helix thing, like DNA, or the serpent in the Garden of Eden
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He Mindcalled the gyre, suddenly anxious to feel the bird's familiar weight on his shoulder.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
seanahan commented on the word gyre
turning and turning in the widening gyre
December 14, 2006
she commented on the word gyre
A conversation with Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking-Glass:
"And what's the gyre and to gimble?"
"To gyre is to go round and round like a gyroscope. To gimble is to make holes like a gimlet."
July 18, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word gyre
In environmental science, "any manner of particularly large-scale wind, swirling vortex and ocean currents. Gyres are caused by the Coriolis effect; planetary vorticity along with horizontal and vertical friction, which determine the circulation patterns from the wind curl (torque)." --Wikipedia
June 4, 2009
marky commented on the word gyre
great word, found on ruzuzu's favorite word. thx ruzuzu
September 4, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word gyre
Thanks! That earlier comment by seanahan is the first line from the poem "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats--I learned the word gyre from that poem.
September 4, 2010