gyration in English

IPA: /dʒaɪ(ə)ˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌd͡ʒaɪˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gyration.wav

[Southern-England] Forms: gyrations [plural] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes). Gyre is 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; circuit, course”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gew-|*h₃enh₂-}}, {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{suffix|en|gyre|ation|pos2=suffix indicating actions or processes|t1=to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl}} gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes), {{m|en||Gyre}} Gyre, {{inh|en|enm|giren|t=to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle}} Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), {{der|en|fro|girer|t=to turn}} Old French girer (“to turn”), {{glossary|etymon}} etymon, {{der|en|la|gȳrāre}} Latin gȳrāre, {{glossary|present}} present, {{glossary|active}} active, {{glossary|infinitive}} infinitive, {{m|la|gȳrō|t=to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around}} gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”), {{m|la|gȳrus|t=circle; circular motion; circuit, course}} gȳrus (“circle; circular motion; circuit, course”), {{der|en|grc|γῦρος|t=a circle, a ring}} Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*gew-|t=to bend; to curve}} Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”), {{glossary|conjugation}} conjugation, {{glossary|verb}} verb, {{m|la|-ō|pos=suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs}} -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} gyration (countable and uncountable, plural gyrations)

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2003, Sheila Kinston Dean, chapter 16, in Full Circle, Boston, Mass.: Beatrice Joseph Publishing, page 186",
          "text": "He followed Neena out among the dancers and she immediately started doing this sexy gyration right up on him. Guy got into the mood and they danced until he saw the waitress bringing their drinks over.",
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          "ref": "2016, How Ngean Lim, “Rhythmic Operations, Material Description, and Analysis in Dance”, in Thomas F. DeFrantz, Philipa Rothfield, editors, Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion (New World Choreographies), London: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, page 108",
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          "ref": "2021 July 23, Eric Lipton, Ephrat Livni, “Crypto nomads: Surfing the world for risk and profit”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, published 19 August 2021 (updated), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-03-10",
          "text": "Cryptocurrency – digital money not backed by any nation – is famous for its wild and frequent gyrations.",
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        "3": "Gyre"
      },
      "expansion": "Gyre",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "giren",
        "t": "to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "girer",
        "t": "to turn"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French girer (“to turn”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "etymon"
      },
      "expansion": "etymon",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "gȳrāre"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin gȳrāre",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "present"
      },
      "expansion": "present",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "active"
      },
      "expansion": "active",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "infinitive"
      },
      "expansion": "infinitive",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "gȳrō",
        "t": "to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around"
      },
      "expansion": "gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "gȳrus",
        "t": "circle; circular motion; circuit, course"
      },
      "expansion": "gȳrus (“circle; circular motion; circuit, course”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "γῦρος",
        "t": "a circle, a ring"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gew-",
        "t": "to bend; to curve"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "conjugation"
      },
      "expansion": "conjugation",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "verb",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-ō",
        "pos": "suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs"
      },
      "expansion": "-ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes). Gyre is 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; circuit, course”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gyrations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "gyration (countable and uncountable, plural gyrations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "gyr‧a‧tion"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "gyrator"
    },
    {
      "word": "gyratorily"
    },
    {
      "word": "gyratory"
    },
    {
      "word": "gyre"
    },
    {
      "word": "gyrification"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "gyrified"
    },
    {
      "word": "gyrify"
    },
    {
      "word": "gyrorotary"
    },
    {
      "word": "gyrus"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1881 March, “Snow Storm Gales”, in Symon’s Monthly Meteorological Magazine, volume XVI, number CLXXXII, London: Edward Stanford, […], →OCLC, page 59",
          "text": "If you question a seaman on the subject, whether mere coaster or circumnavigator, he will tell you that in a snow-storm, because of its constant eddyings and gyrations, frequent trimming of sails is more necessary than in any other gale, and that to steer a straight and steady course under such circumstances is for the time simply impossible.\nQuoting an article entitled “Nether-Lochaber” in The Inverness Courier (17 March 1881).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Sheila Kinston Dean, chapter 16, in Full Circle, Boston, Mass.: Beatrice Joseph Publishing, page 186",
          "text": "He followed Neena out among the dancers and she immediately started doing this sexy gyration right up on him. Guy got into the mood and they danced until he saw the waitress bringing their drinks over.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, How Ngean Lim, “Rhythmic Operations, Material Description, and Analysis in Dance”, in Thomas F. DeFrantz, Philipa Rothfield, editors, Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion (New World Choreographies), London: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, page 108",
          "text": "The gyration of the hips, quick hand movements, the expressive face and the energetic runs are newly discovered movement qualities that extend beyond their classical repertoire of codified meanings, leading Belle and Kethya [dancers] to become more expressive in their improvisations.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 July 23, Eric Lipton, Ephrat Livni, “Crypto nomads: Surfing the world for risk and profit”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, published 19 August 2021 (updated), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-03-10",
          "text": "Cryptocurrency – digital money not backed by any nation – is famous for its wild and frequent gyrations.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "turning",
          "turning#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "whirling",
          "whirling#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "fixed",
          "fixed#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "axis",
          "axis"
        ],
        [
          "centre",
          "centre#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "circular",
          "circular#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "spiral",
          "spiral#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "motion",
          "motion#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "rotation",
          "rotation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(also figuratively) The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "circumvolution"
        },
        {
          "word": "spinning"
        },
        {
          "word": "wheeling"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "countable",
        "figuratively",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Geometry"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation.",
        "A rotation around an axis which is not the centre of rotational symmetry; an eccentric or off-centre rotation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "turning",
          "turning#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "whirling",
          "whirling#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "fixed",
          "fixed#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "axis",
          "axis"
        ],
        [
          "centre",
          "centre#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "circular",
          "circular#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "spiral",
          "spiral#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "motion",
          "motion#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "rotation",
          "rotation"
        ],
        [
          "Euclidean",
          "Euclidean geometry"
        ],
        [
          "geometry",
          "geometry"
        ],
        [
          "rotational symmetry",
          "rotational symmetry"
        ],
        [
          "eccentric",
          "eccentric#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "off-centre",
          "off-centre"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Euclidean geometry",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(also figuratively) The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation.",
        "(specifically, Euclidean geometry) A rotation around an axis which is not the centre of rotational symmetry; an eccentric or off-centre rotation."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "circumvolution"
        },
        {
          "word": "spinning"
        },
        {
          "word": "wheeling"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "countable",
        "figuratively",
        "specifically",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Conchology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "conchology",
          "conchology"
        ],
        [
          "whorls",
          "whorl#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "univalve",
          "univalve#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "shell",
          "shell#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(conchology) One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "conchology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Neurology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex of the brain."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "neurology",
          "neurology"
        ],
        [
          "arrangement",
          "arrangement"
        ],
        [
          "convolution",
          "convolution"
        ],
        [
          "gyri",
          "gyrus"
        ],
        [
          "cerebral cortex",
          "cerebral cortex"
        ],
        [
          "brain",
          "brain#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(neurology) The arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex of the brain."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "neurology",
        "neuroscience",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dʒaɪ(ə)ˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌd͡ʒaɪˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪʃən"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre — see also rotation",
      "word": "ĝirado"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre — see also rotation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "giration"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre — see also rotation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gȳrātiō"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre — see also rotation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "girație"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre — see also rotation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "giración"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gyration"
}

"gyration" meaning in English

Noun

Inflected forms