gyrate

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Adjective, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb gyrate has 2 senses

  • gyrate(v = verb.motion) coil, spiral - to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"
  • is one way to turn
    Derived form noun gyration2
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
  • gyrate(v = verb.motion) reel, spin, spin around, whirl - revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
  • is one way to go around, revolve, rotate
    Derived forms noun gyration2, noun gyration1
    Sample sentences:
    Something is ----ing PP
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s PP

CIDE DICTIONARY

gyratea. [L. gyratus made in a circular form, p. p. of gyrare.].
     Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.  [1913 Webster]
gyratev. i. [L. gyratus, p. p. of gyrare to gyrate. See Gyre, n.].
     To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gyrate, v. & adj.
--v.intr. go in a circle or spiral; revolve, whirl.
--adj. Bot. arranged in rings or convolutions.

Derivative
gyration n. gyratorn. gyratory adj.
Etymology
L gyrare gyrat- revolve f. gyrus ring f. Gk guros

THESAURUS

gyrate

advance, ascend, back, back up, budge, change, change place, circle, circulate, circumrotate, circumvolute, climb, crank, descend, ebb, flow, get over, go, go around, go round, go sideways, gyre, mount, move, move over, pirouette, pivot, plunge, progress, purl, regress, retrogress, revolve, rise, roll, rotate, round, run, screw, shift, sink, soar, spin, stir, stream, subside, swing, swirl, swivel, travel, turn, turn a pirouette, turn about, turn around, turn round, twirl, twist, wamble, wane, wheel, whirl, whirligig, wind

ROGET THESAURUS

gyrate

Rotation

VB rotate, roll along, revolve, spin, turn round, circumvolve, circulate, gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette, twirl, trundle, troll, bowl, roll up, furl, wallow, welter, box the compass, spin like a top, spin like a teetotum, spin out.


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