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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Charybdis, Maelstrom, Sunday drive, ado, advance, agitation, airing, ascend, avert, back, back stream, back up, backflow, backwash, backwater, barrel, bother, botheration, brouhaha, budge, bullet, burst, bustle, centrifugate, centrifuge, change, change place, circle, circuit, circulation, circumvolution, cirrus, clatter, climb, coil, come about, commotion, contort, corkscrew, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, crack, crinkle, curl, curlicue, deflect, descend, disturbance, divert, dizzy round, drive, ebb, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment, evolute, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fetch about, fidgetiness, fit, flap, fleet, flit, flow, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, fume, furore, fuss, fussiness, get over, go, go about, go around, go round, go sideways, gulf, gurge, gyrate, gyration, gyre, hassle, heel, helix, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, intort, involute, joyride, kink, lift, mad round, maelstrom, meander, merry-go-round, moil, mount, move, move over, pell-mell, perturbation, pickup, pirouette, pivot, pivot about, plunge, pop, pother, progress, purl, put about, rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regress, regurgitation, restlessness, retrogress, ride, ringlet, rise, roll, rotate, rotation, round, round of pleasure, ruction, ruffle, run, scallop, scramble, screw, scroll, serpentine, sheer, shift, shot, sink, slap, slink, snake, soar, spasm, speed, spin, spiral, spurt, stab, stagger, stave, stew, stir, storm, stream, subside, surge, sweat, swim, swing, swing round, swirl, swirling, swivel, tendril, the dizzy rounds, the rounds, to-do, travel, try, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, turn tail, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, unquiet, uproar, veer, veer around, volte-face, volute, volution, vortex, wane, whack, wheel, wheel about, whip, whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, whish, whisk, whiz, whorl, wind, worm, wring, yeastiness |
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Dictionary Results for Whirl: |
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
whirl
n 1: confused movement; "he was caught up in a whirl of work";
"a commotion of people fought for the exits" [syn: whirl,
commotion]
2: the shape of something rotating rapidly [syn: whirl,
swirl, vortex, convolution]
3: a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it
a whirl" [syn: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl,
offer]
4: the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it
broke off after much twisting" [syn: spin, twirl,
twist, twisting, whirl]
v 1: turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled
in the autumn wind" [syn: twirl, swirl, twiddle,
whirl]
2: cause to spin; "spin a coin" [syn: whirl, birl, spin,
twirl]
3: flow in a circular current, of liquids [syn: eddy, purl,
whirlpool, swirl, whirl]
4: revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The
dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
[syn: spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate]
5: fly around; "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; "rising smoke
whirled in the air" [syn: whirl, tumble, whirl around]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Whirl \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.]
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1. To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity;
to make to revolve.
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He whirls his sword around without delay. --Dryden.
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2. To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving
motion; to snatch; to harry. --Chaucer.
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See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels,
That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood.
--Milton.
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The passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into
folly. --Tennyson.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Whirl \Whirl\, v. i.
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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.
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The wooden engine flies and whirls about. --Dryden.
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2. To move hastily or swiftly.
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But whirled away to shun his hateful sight.
--Dryden.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Whirl \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.]
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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.
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The rapid . . . whirl of things here below interrupt
not the inviolable rest and calmness of the noble
beings above. --South.
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2. Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
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He saw Falmouth under gray, iron skies, and whirls
of March dust. --Carlyle.
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3. A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle
of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are
attached.
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4. (Bot. & Zool.) A whorl. See Whorl.
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Common Misspellings > |
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