Meaning of WHIRL
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- [n] the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting"
- [n] a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl"
- [n] confused movement; "he was caught up in a whirl of work"; "a commotion of people fought for the exits"
- [n] the shape of something rotating rapidly
- [v] revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
- [v] flow in a circular current, of liquids
- [v] fly around, as of paper on the sidewalk, or clothes in a dryer, or rising smoke in the wind
- [v] cause to spin; "spin a coin"
- [v] turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"
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| | Synonyms: | | birl, commotion, convolution, crack, eddy, fling, go, gyrate, offer, pass, purl, reel, skirl, spin, spin, spin around, swirl, swirl, tumble, twiddle, twirl, twirl, twist, twisting, vortex, whirl around, whirlpool |
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| | See Also: | | attempt, birling, circumvolve, course, effort, endeavor, endeavour, flow, go around, logrolling, motion, move, movement, pirouette, revolve, rotate, rotation, round shape, run, try, whirligig | |
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\Whirl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whirled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Whirling}.] [OE. whirlen, probably from the Scand.; cf.
Icel. & Sw. hvirfla, Dan. hvirvle; akin to D. wervelen, G.
wirbeln, freq. of the verb seen in Icel. hverfa to turn.
[root]16. See {Wharf}, and cf. {Warble}, {Whorl}.]
1. To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity;
to make to revolve.
He whirls his sword around without delay. --Dryden.
2. To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving
motion; to snatch; to harry. --Chaucer.
See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, That
whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood. --Milton.
The passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into
folly. --Tennyson.
\Whirl\, v. i.
1. To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity;
to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate. ``The
whirling year vainly my dizzy eyes pursue.'' --J. H.
Newman.
The wooden engine flies and whirls about. --Dryden.
2. To move hastily or swiftly.
But whirled away to shun his hateful sight.
--Dryden.
\Whirl\, n. [Cf. Dan. hvirvel, Sw. hvirfvel, Icel.
hvirfill the crown of the head, G. wirbel whirl, crown of the
head, D. wervel. See {Whirl}, v. t.]
1. A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or
circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion;
as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel. ``In no
breathless whirl.'' --J. H. Newman.
The rapid . . . whirl of things here below interrupt
not the inviolable rest and calmness of the noble
beings above. --South.
2. Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
He saw Falmouth under gray, iron skies, and whirls
of March dust. --Carlyle.
3. A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle
of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are
attached.
4. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) A whorl. See {Whorl}.
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