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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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" [syn: gyrate, spiral, coil]
2: 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]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 1830 winding or coiled around ; convoluted <gyrate branches of a tree> II. intransitive verb (gyrated; gyrating) Date: 1830 1. to revolve around a point or axis 2. to oscillate with or as if with a circular or spiral motion • gyrator noun • gyratory adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & adj. --v.intr. go in a circle or spiral; revolve, whirl. --adj. Bot. arranged in rings or convolutions. Derivatives: gyration n. gyratorn. gyratory adj. Etymology: L gyrare gyrat- revolve f. gyrus ring f. Gk guros

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gyrate Gy"rate, a. [L. gyratus made in a circular form, p. p. of gyrare.] Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gyrate Gy"rate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gyrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Gyrating.] [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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(gyrates, gyrating, gyrated) 1. If you gyrate, you dance or move your body quickly with circular movements. The woman began to gyrate to the music. ...a room stuffed full of gasping, gyrating bodies. VERB: V, V-ing • gyration (gyrations) Prince continued his enthusiastic gyrations on stage. N-COUNT: usu pl 2. To gyrate means to turn round and round in a circle, usually very fast. The aeroplane was gyrating about the sky in a most unpleasant fashion. VERB: V prep, also V 3. If things such as prices or currencies gyrate, they move up and down in a rapid and uncontrolled way. (JOURNALISM) Interest rates began to gyrate up towards 20 per cent in 1980 and then down and up again. VERB: V adv/prep, also V • gyration ...the gyrations of the currency markets. N-COUNT: usu pl, with supp

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Rotate, revolve, whirl, spin, turn round, wheel round, move in a circle.

Moby Thesaurus

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