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Whirl

[wɜːl] or [wɝrl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) confused movement; 'he was caught up in a whirl of work'; 'a commotion of people fought for the exits'.

(noun.) the shape of something rotating rapidly.

(verb.) fly around; 'The clothes tumbled in the dryer'; 'rising smoke whirled in the air'.

(verb.) cause to spin; 'spin a coin'.

艾米編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.

(v. t.) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.

(v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.

(v. i.) To move hastily or swiftly.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) Anything that moves with a whirling motion.

(v. t.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.

(v. t.) A whorl. See Whorl.

多拉編輯

同義詞及近義詞:

v. n. Twirl, revolve, rotate, spin.

v. a. Twirl, spin, wheel, turn round.

n. Gyration, rotation.

編輯:斯坦利

同義詞及反義詞:

SYN:Twirl, spin_round, gyrate,[See LASH]

卡里校對

解釋/意思:

n. a turning with rapidity: anything that turns with velocity.—v.i. to revolve rapidly.—v.t. to turn round rapidly: to carry away rapidly as on wheels.—ns. Whirl′-about′ anything that turns round rapidly; Whirl′-bat (obs.) the ancient cestus; Whirl′-blast a whirling blast of wind; Whirl′-bone the knee-cap; Whirl′er; Whirl′igig a child's toy which is spun or whirled rapidly round: a merry-go-round: anything that revolves rapidly: the water-beetle (Gyrinus): an ancient instrument of punishment consisting of a pivoted wooden cage in which the prisoner was spun round; Whirl′ing; Whirl′ing-der′vish one of an order of Mohammedan devotees who dance or spin round—the Mevlevis or dancing dervishes founded in 1273; Whirl′ing-tā′ble -machine′ a machine exhibiting the effects of centripetal and centrifugal forces: an instrument used by potters; Whirl′pool a circular current in a river or sea produced by opposing tides winds or currents: an eddy; Whirl′wind a violent aerial current with a whirling rotary or spiral motion and wild circling rush.

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