gyre
(chiefly literary, poetic) A swirling vortex.
(chiefly literary, poetic) A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn.
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.
(anatomy, zootomy, archaic) A fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain.
(oceanography) An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.
(literary, poetic) To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl.
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.
(literary, poetic, rare) To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl.
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