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单词 gyre
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gyren.

Brit. /ˈdʒʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈdʒaɪ(ə)r/
Forms: Also 1600s gire.
Etymology: < Latin gȳrus, < Greek γῦρος ring, circle. Compare giro n.1
poetic and literary.
1. A turning round, revolution, whirl; a circular or spiral turn.
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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.
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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:
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1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 77 Streames, in whose entransing gyres, Wise Nature oft her selfe her workmanship admires.

Compounds

gyre-circling adj.
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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.
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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.

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Oceanography. A circulating ocean current driven by wind, esp. any of those located in the major ocean basins.
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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.

/dʒʌɪə/
Forms: Also Middle English, 1600s gire.
Etymology: < Latin gȳrāre, < gȳrus (see gyre n.).
poetic.
1. transitive. To turn or whirl round. rare.
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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.
2. To revolve round, compass. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese A-gironda, giringly, about and about.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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