gyre
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Is gyre a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (chiefly literary, poetic)literarypoetic
2. (chiefly literary, poetic)Examples: "Quick, and more quick he ſpins in giddy Gires, / Then falls, and in much Foam his Soul expires."; "What is art, / But life upon the larger scale, the higher, / When, graduating up in a spiral line / Of still expanding and ascending gyres, / It pushes toward the intense significance / Of all things, hungry for the Infinite? / Art's life,—and where we live, we suffer and toil."; "Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, […]"Synonyms: circuit, whirlliterarypoetic
3. (anatomy, zootomy, archaic) Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”).Synonyms: gyrusarchaic
4. (oceanography) An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.Examples: "Most ships that tried to cross the Pacific in the past would get stuck in the gyres and never make it out."
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl.Examples: "The host of heauenly beautyes moue, / Depainted in their proper stories, / As well the fixd as wandring glories, / Which from their proper orbes not goe, / Whether they gyre swift or slowe: […]"; "Jabberwocky. / 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wa[b]e; / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe."Synonyms: revolve, rotateintransitiveliterarypoetic
2. (transitive, rare) To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl.literarypoeticraretransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary