| 单词 | swirl |
| 释义 | swirl (once / 1181 pages) vn To swirl is to turn in circles or spirals, the way a leaf caught in a whirlpool swirls, or a toy duck swirls in the bathtub as you empty the water out. Smoke might swirl up from your campfire, keeping the mosquitos that swirl through the air nearby from biting you. Or you can swirl on a carnival ride that spins you in circles until you step back onto the ground and the world swirls for a while, until you regain your balance. Swirl is a noun, too, as in a swirl of dust. It was originally Scottish for "whirlpool." WORD FAMILYswirl: swirled, swirling, swirls USAGE EXAMPLESFor example, Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is famous for its buzzing, swirling, incomprehensible traffic. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Her pale hands stretch forward from swirls of black cloth. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) Questions continued to swirl about the death of the pop music icon George Michael. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1v turn in a twisting or spinning motion The leaves swirled in the autumn wind Syn|Hyper twiddle, twirl, whirl go around, revolve, rotate turn on or around an axis or a center 2v flow in a circular current, of liquids Syn|Hyper eddy, purl, whirl, whirlpool course, feed, flow, run move along, of liquids 3n the shape of something rotating rapidly Syn|Hyper convolution, vortex, whirl round shape a shape that is curved and without sharp angles |
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