gyre

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A swirling vortex.
2. isim 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.”

3. isim Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”).
4. isim 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.”

5. fiil 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: […]”

6. fiil To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl.