gyre

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /d͡ʒaɪ.ə/    美 /d͡ʒaɪ.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A swirling vortex. literary,poetic
  2. A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn. literary,poetic
    — Quick, and more quick he ſpins in giddy Gires, / Then falls, and in much Foam his Soul expires.
  3. Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”). archaic
  4. An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.
    — Most ships that tried to cross the Pacific in the past would get stuck in the gyres and never make it out.
动词 v.
  1. To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl. intransitive,literary,poetic
    — The host of heauenly beautyes moue, / Depainted in their proper stories, / As well the fixd as wandring glories, / Which from their proper orbes not goe, / Whether they gyre swift or slowe: […]
  2. To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl. literary,poetic,rare,transitive

词形变化

gyres plural gyres present,singular,third-person gyring participle,present gyred participle,past gyred past

词汇关系

衍生词
gyral gyrally gyreful gyrose isogyre polygyrous gyring gyringly
相关词
gyrant gyrate gyration gyrator gyratory gyrectomy gyrencephalate gyro gyrus gyre-carlin

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Latin gȳrus (“circle; circular motion”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle; ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”). The English word is a doublet of gyro and gyrus.
词源 2
From Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), and directly from its etymon Latin gȳrāre, the present active infinitive of gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”), from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion”) (see etymology 1) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).
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