gyre
/ˈdʒʌɪə
/ /ˈɡʌɪə /verb [no object] literary
Whirl or gyrate: a swarm of ghosts gyred around him...
- The serpents intertwined, gyring, intertwining and weaved around one another, racing towards her.
- The current is not, however, continuous around Antarctica and it is absorbed in the two large gyre systems of the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea.
- Another no-mates, quarantined island where they gyre and gambol long and hard and in public.
noun
1A spiral or vortex.The two source waters of the cold fresh Arctic water and the warm salty Atlantic water form a cyclonic gyre which is closed in its southern section at approximately 72°N by the eastward-flowing current....
- Rivers of plastic objects are carried by great ocean currents from North America, Japan, and other lands along the North Pacific rim into the gyre.
- I've been turning and turning in the widening gyre.
1.1 Geography A circular pattern of currents in an ocean basin: the central North Pacific gyre...
- These currents flow in large rotating loops called gyres.
- The August data support the results of earlier investigations that suggested that dynamic forcing by a basinwide gyre is responsible for the upwelling in the open water.
- Zones of minimum upwelling and, therefore, productivity, occur in the central regions of the oceans known as the gyres.
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense 'whirl someone or something round'): from late Latin gyrare, from Latin gyrus 'a ring', from Greek guros. The noun is from Latin gyrus.
Rhymes
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