Gyre

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)
• UK IPA: /dÊ’aɪ.É™/
• US enPR: jÄ«É™r IPA: /dÊ’aɪ.Éš/

Origin

From Latin gyrus, Ancient Greek γῦρος (gyros, "circle, ring, turning")

Noun

1. a swirling vortex
2. a circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current
3. A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.
• DrydenQuick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres.
• Elizabeth Barrett BrowningStill expanding and ascending gyres.

Full definition of gyre

Verb

1. (intransitive) to whirl
• 1605, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, poem "From Eclogue ij":Which from their proper orbes not goe,
  

• 1872, Lewis Carroll, poem :'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  

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