gyre

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /dʒaɪ.ə/
• (America) enPR: jīər IPA: /dʒaɪ.ɚ/

Noun

gyre (plural gyres)

1. A swirling vortex.
2. A circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current.
3. A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.

   • Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres.

   • Still expanding and ascending gyres.

   • Turning and turning in the widening gyre

     The falcon cannot hear the falconer […]

Translations

• German: Strudel
• Russian: вихрь
• Spanish: remolino

Translations

• French: gyre, gyre océanique
• German: ozeanischer Wirbel, Wirbel
• Portuguese: giro
• Spanish: giro, giro oceánico

Verb

gyre (gyres, present participle gyring; past and past participle gyred)

1. (intransitive) to whirl
   • 1605, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton ↗, poem "From Eclogue ij":

     Which from their proper orbes not goe,
     Whether they gyre swift or slowe:

   • 1872, Lewis Carroll, poem Jabberwocky:

     'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
     Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

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