单词 | gyre |
释义 | gyren. poetic and literary. 1. A turning round, revolution, whirl; a circular or spiral turn. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] > a revolution or rotation tour1477 gyre1566 circumvolution1570 twista1577 revolution1648 roll1667 rollover1817 go-round1883 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Bij Fashions..Which..do cum, And goe in circled gyre. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. v. sig. Q5 To ward, Or strike, or hurtle rownd in warlike gyre. 1604 B. Jonson Particular Entertainm. at Althrope 107 in His Pt. Royall Entertainem. Pardon Lady this wild straine,..Elues, apply your Gyre againe. 1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. II. iv. iii. 137 Other Artizans doe but practise, we still learn; others run still in the same gyre, to wearinesse..our choice is infinite. c1620 T. Robinson Mary Magdalene (1899) i. xciv. 786 Like to ye top, yt in his gyre doth spin. 1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. i. 71 In all these we may easily maintaine the gyre or circumaction of the Head. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 78 Whirling them in oblique gyres. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xvii. 73 Be thy wheeling gyres Of ample circuit, easy thy descent. 1829 R. Southey Inscriptions Caledonian Canal ii, in A. Cunningham Anniversary 195 The glede Wheeling between the mountains in mid air, Eastward or westward as his gyre inclines. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh iv. 176 Graduating up in a spiral line Of still expanding and ascending gyres. 1920 W. B. Yeats Michael Robartes 34 All our scientific, democratic, fact-accumulating, heterogeneous civilization belongs to the outward gyre. 1928 W. B. Yeats Coll. Poems (1950) 217 O sages standing in God's holy fire... Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre. 1929 W. B. Yeats Let. (1954) 764 I believe I shall have a poetical re-birth for as I write about my cones and gyres all sorts of images come before me. 1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 98 A serpent..With lifted crest and radiant gyre Revolving into wheels of fire. 1948 C. Day Lewis Poems 1943–7 64 Earth-souls doomed in their gyres to unwind Some tragic love-tangle. 1962 Listener 20 Dec. 1047/2 It is deeply satisfying both as riddle and as poem. The poet evokes an atmosphere of mystery within the frame of the eternal gyre. 2. concrete. A ring, circle, spiral; also, a vortex. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] rundlec1300 waif1513 enwrapping1543 convolution1545 entrail?a1549 wreath1555 roundness1572 spire1572 rolling1576 enfold1578 infold1578 obvolution1578 gyre1590 whorl1592 enfoldment1593 twine1600 turn1625 volume1646 volution1752 swirl1786 coil1805 swirling1825 convolute1846 whirl1862 enfolding1873 snaking1888 the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > a circle or ring rounda1325 circlec1380 rigol1459 roundel1486 rundle1529 roundaboutc1535 circule1549 gyre1590 ringle1598 cirque1677 crinkle1702 circus1748 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Bb8 She rushing through the thickest preasse, Perforce disparted their compacted gyre. 1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. E4 He..dispersd the armed Gire With which I was enuirond. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. vii. 244 To hurry a great Ship downright in a Dismal Gyre, down into the deep. 1719 P. Blair in Philos. Trans. 1717–19 (Royal Soc.) 30 893 The Cochlea is a long Cavity consisting of three Gyres or Meanders. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. v. i. 15 The smoke rises in dark gyres to the air. 1881 D. G. Rossetti House of Life in Ballads & Sonn. xliv Ah! in your eyes so reached what dumb adieu, What unsunned gyres of waste eternity? 1892 W. E. Henley London Voluntaries in Song of Sword iv. 10 In genial wave on wave and gyre on gyre. 3. ‘A trance’ (Cockeram 1623). Obsolete. rare.Probably a mistake. Cf. the following: ΚΠ 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 77 Streames, in whose entransing gyres, Wise Nature oft her selfe her workmanship admires. Compounds gyre-circling adj. ΚΠ 1881 D. G. Rossetti Beryl-song in Rose Mary Gyre-circling spirits of fire. Draft additions June 2012 Anatomy and Zoology. A gyrus of the cerebral cortex. Now rare. ΚΠ 1885 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 12 273 Owen's names for the cerebral fissures and gyres are uniformly mononymic. 1895 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 28 Sept. 759/1 The frontal gyres..may be channelled by fissures. 1936 Biometrika 28 139 The average degree of development of the Sylvian fissure and the protuberance of the third frontal gyre. 2003 P. E. Lutz et al. Brain without Oxygen (ed. 3) viii. 204 The differences were most pronounced in the frontal cortex and angular gyre. Draft additions June 2012 Oceanography. A circulating ocean current driven by wind, esp. any of those located in the major ocean basins. ΚΠ 1945 E. G. Mears Pacific Ocean Handbk. (rev. ed.) viii. 82 The East Australia Current is the weakest part of the entire southern gyre. 1957 Physics & Chem. Earth 2 19 Thus in an ocean gyre there is a strong tendency for the central water mass to become blue. 2009 New Yorker 6 Apr. 55/1 Returning to California on the boat, he decided to take a shortcut, motoring across the doldrums of the North Pacific subtropical gyre. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gyrev. poetic. 1. transitive. To turn or whirl round. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] turnOE trillc1386 gyrec1420 rote?1533 tirl1543 to turn round1555 revolve1559 circumvert1578 circumgyre1635 circumrote1635 circumgyrate1647 circumvolve1647 veera1649 twist1769 rotate1777 sphere1820 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 327 The side in longe vppon the south, let sprede..gire hit from the colde west, if thow conne. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 25 With the spightful Philistim, he [sc. the Devil] puts out both the eyes of our apprehension and judgement, that he may gyre us about in the Mill of unprofitable wickednesse. 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways II. vii. 154 She was out at a distance on the ebb-sands hurtled, gyred, beaten to all shapes. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > cause to move in circle or curve [verb (transitive)] > move in circle round something umgoa1300 compassc1384 gyrec1420 environ?a1425 circuitc1550 revolve1559 circle1582 to put (also make, cast) a girdle (round) about1600 encirclea1616 encompass1640 whirla1657 circulate1685 gird1688 circumgyrate1868 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. x. 203 September is with Aprill houris euen, ffor Phebus lijk in either gireth heuen. 3. intransitive. To turn round, revolve, whirl, gyrate. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] wharvec888 turnOE runOE to turn aboutOE to turn roundc1450 to go roundc1460 revolute1553 gyre1598 veer1605 to come about1607 circumvolve1626 circumgyre1634 to turn around1642 roll1646 revolve1660 circulate1672 twist1680 circumgyrate1683 rotate1757 gyrate1830 1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 10 When to the west the sunne begins to gyre. ?1606 M. Drayton Eglog ii, in Poemes sig. D2v Which from their proper orbes not goe, Whether they gyre swift or slowe. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ii. xxxvii. 26 A..groom..Which soon the full-grown kitchin cleanly drains By divers pipes, with hundred turnings giring. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island iv. viii. 39 Round about two circling altars gire, In blushing red. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iii. 129 Mutual strokes with equal force descend..now gyring prest High at the head, now plunging for the breast. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xii The eagle's cry, Who..at her highest flight A speck scarce visible, gyred round and round. 1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass i. 21 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe. 1920 W. B. Yeats Demon & Beast in Coll. Poems (1950) 210 To watch a white gull take A bit of bread thrown up into the air; Now gyring down and perning there. 1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos xxv. 114 Three lion cubs..which born at once began life and motion and to go gyring about their mother. 1951 S. Spender World within World v. 283 The bomber was gyring and diving. Derivatives ˈgyring n. revolution, gyration. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] swayc1374 turning1390 overwhelming?a1439 circumvolution1447 winding1530 conversion1541 rotationa1550 revolution1566 gyring?1578 revolve1598 circulation1605 gyration1615 evolution1654 sweep1679 gyrating1837 revolving1867 ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 24 With such wyndyngs, gyrings & circumflexions. 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells ii. 63 They [the Heavens] alter in their gyring more or less. ˈgyring adj. revolving, whirling, gyrating; also, encircling, encompassing. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > revolving or rotating rolling?1518 turning1558 gyreful1566 gyring1590 revoluble1598 ambient?1614 vertiginous1680 revolving1681 rotating1757 veering1798 gyratory1815 peristrephic1816 peristrephical1827 gyral1828 gyrating1837 volutory1839 volvent1898 1590 G. Peele Polyhymnia 36 At the shock The hollow gyring vault of heaven resounds. 1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. F 4v One colour teinteth all, Turrets, doores and gyring wall. 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 50 Wind-tossed waues which with a gyring course Circle the Centers ouerpeering maine. a1634 J. Day Parl. Bees (Lansd. 725) f. 36 The massie world that on Gyreing Spheares is hurld. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iv. ii. 190 This gyring Lab'rinth is betrench'd about On either hand. ˈgyringly adv. with revolving motion. ΚΠ 1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese A-gironda, giringly, about and about. 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