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gyre
/d͡ʒaɪ.ə/
noun 4verb 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
big, slithy, swift
VERB + GYRE
widening
GYRE + NOUN
falcon, gimble, slowe
PREP.
in, in
ADV.
essentially
Definitions
noun
1
A swirling vortex.
2
A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn.
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.
3
Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”).
4
An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.
Most ships that tried to cross the Pacific in the past would get stuck in the gyres and never make it out.
verb
1
To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl.
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.
2
To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl.
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Quick, and more quick he ſpins in giddy Gires, / Then falls, and in much Foam his Soul expires.
Wiktionary02
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,
Wiktionary03
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, […]
Wiktionary04
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: […]
Wiktionary05
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.
Wiktionary06
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe.
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