'Whirl' definitions:
Definition of 'whirl'
From: WordNet
noun
Confused movement; "he was caught up in a whirl of work"; "a commotion of people fought for the exits" [syn: whirl, commotion]
noun
noun
A usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl" [syn: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer]
noun
The act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting" [syn: spin, twirl, twist, twisting, whirl]
verb
Turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind" [syn: twirl, swirl, twiddle, whirl]
verb
verb
verb
Revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy" [syn: spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate]
verb
Fly around; "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; "rising smoke whirled in the air" [syn: whirl, tumble, whirl around]
Definition of 'Whirl'
From: GCIDE
- Whirl \Whirl\, v. i. [1913 Webster]
- 1. To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate. "The whirling year vainly my dizzy eyes pursue." --J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster]
- The wooden engine flies and whirls about. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To move hastily or swiftly. [1913 Webster]
- But whirled away to shun his hateful sight. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Whirl'
From: GCIDE
- Whirl \Whirl\, n. [Cf. Dan. hvirvel, Sw. hvirfvel, Icel. hvirfill the crown of the head, G. wirbel whirl, crown of the head, D. wervel. See Whirl, v. t.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel. "In no breathless whirl." --J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster]
- The rapid . . . whirl of things here below interrupt not the inviolable rest and calmness of the noble beings above. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Anything that moves with a whirling motion. [1913 Webster]
- He saw Falmouth under gray, iron skies, and whirls of March dust. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Bot. & Zool.) A whorl. See Whorl. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Whirl'
From: GCIDE
- Whirl \Whirl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Whirled; p. pr. & vb. n. Whirling.] [OE. whirlen, probably from the Scand.; cf. Icel. & Sw. hvirfla, Dan. hvirvle; akin to D. wervelen, G. wirbeln, freq. of the verb seen in Icel. hverfa to turn. [root]16. See Wharf, and cf. Warble, Whorl.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve. [1913 Webster]
- He whirls his sword around without delay. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into folly. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'whirl'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ado,
- advance,
- agitation,
- airing,
- ascend,
- avert,
- back,
- back stream,
- back up,
- backflow,
- backwash,
- backwater,
- barrel,
- bother,
- botheration,
- brouhaha,
- budge,
- bullet,
- burst,
- bustle,
- centrifugate,
- centrifuge,
- change,
- change place,
- Charybdis,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circulation,
- circumvolution,
- cirrus,
- clatter,
- climb,
- coil,
- come about,
- commotion,
- contort,
- corkscrew,
- countercurrent,
- counterflow,
- counterflux,
- crack,
- crinkle,
- curl,
- curlicue,
- deflect,
- descend,
- disturbance,
- divert,
- dizzy round,
- drive,
- ebb,
- ebullience,
- ebullition,
- eddy,
- effervescence,
- embroilment,
- evolute,
- feery-fary,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fetch about,
- fidgetiness,
- fit,
- flap,
- fleet,
- flit,
- flow,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- flutteriness,
- fume,
- furore,
- fuss,
- fussiness,
- get over,
- go,
- go about,
- go around,
- go round,
- go sideways,
- gulf,
- gurge,
- gyrate,
- gyration,
- gyre,
- hassle,
- heel,
- helix,
- hubbub,
- hullabaloo,
- hurly-burly,
- hurry,
- hurry-scurry,
- intort,
- involute,
- joyride,
- kink,
- lift,
- mad round,
- Maelstrom,
- maelstrom,
- meander,
- merry-go-round,
- moil,
- mount,
- move,
- move over,
- pell-mell,
- perturbation,
- pickup,
- pirouette,
- pivot,
- pivot about,
- plunge,
- pop,
- pother,
- progress,
- purl,
- put about,
- rat race,
- reel,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regress,
- regurgitation,
- restlessness,
- retrogress,
- ride,
- ringlet,
- rise,
- roll,
- rotate,
- rotation,
- round,
- round of pleasure,
- ruction,
- ruffle,
- run,
- scallop,
- scramble,
- screw,
- scroll,
- serpentine,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shot,
- sink,
- slap,
- slink,
- snake,
- soar,
- spasm,
- speed,
- spin,
- spiral,
- spurt,
- stab,
- stagger,
- stave,
- stew,
- stir,
- storm,
- stream,
- subside,
- Sunday drive,
- surge,
- sweat,
- swim,
- swing,
- swing round,
- swirl,
- swirling,
- swivel,
- tendril,
- the dizzy rounds,
- the rounds,
- to-do,
- travel,
- try,
- tumult,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- turn,
- turn about,
- turn around,
- turn round,
- turn tail,
- twine,
- twirl,
- twist,
- twist and turn,
- unquiet,
- uproar,
- veer,
- veer around,
- volte-face,
- volute,
- volution,
- vortex,
- wane,
- whack,
- wheel,
- wheel about,
- whip,
- whirligig,
- whirlpool,
- whirlwind,
- whish,
- whisk,
- whiz,
- whorl,
- wind,
- worm,
- wring,
- yeastiness