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Meanings of whirl in English

Portuguese
tentativa
Spanish
conato

A usually brief attempt.

tentativa
Portuguese
giro
Catalan
gir
Spanish
giro

The act of rotating rapidly.

giro
Portuguese
turbilhão
Catalan
remolí

The shape of something rotating rapidly.

turbilhão
Catalan
arremolinar-se

Flow in a circular current, of liquids.

arremolinar-se
Synonyms
Examples for "eddy"
Examples for "eddy"
1
Then nothing, save the lap and eddy of the water far away.
The Woman in Black
2
The junction appeared deeper; water churned in a putrid eddy of cross-currents.
The water room
3
For I was now strangely interested in these men of the eddy.
Great Possessions
4
An eddy clutched her and drew her swiftly in toward the bank.
Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures; Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund
5
The eddy on which it was poised seizes and drags it down.
A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson
1
The water I had seen; I had not counted on the whirlpool.
Under the Andes
2
But who knows how far the whirlpool might have spread by then?
Axiomatic
3
It shuddered, it was afraid; this vision of a whirlpool haunted him.
Stella Fregelius: A Tale of Three Destinies
4
Others followed the leaders, creating a whirlpool of stampeding, panting, wild-eyed livestock.
Frontier courtship
5
The eddy was rapidly becoming a whirlpool, the water foaming about it.
Complete Books of Blood
1
I could hear the gentle purl of the stream on my right.
Harvest Home
2
One, two, three, four, five, and then three purl; that is right.
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
3
When the knitting is round, you purl and knit the intake alternately.
Encyclopedia of Needlework
4
I can't leave her behind... purl three... you know what she's like.'
The corfu trilogy
5
Mag counted up her dropped stitch and began again, knit, purl, purl.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Usage of whirl in English
1
They're unnerving even now, months later; Grand Central without its human whirl.
The Irish Times
2
She clung to this idea in the whirl of the new life.
A Little Journey in the World
3
The bow-string holding the stick made it whirl in the hole beneath.
Stories of American Life and Adventure
4
The animal disappeared, swallowed in the whirl-wind that encompassed her and it.
A Man Four-Square
5
The storm was coming, and it would have to whirl its course.
The Wolf’s Hour
6
His lips smiled; his heart was in a wild whirl of happiness.
Marcella
7
His mind was in an uproar with this whirl of new ideas.
The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all na...
8
His mind was in a vertigo with this whirl of new ideas.
Tales of a Traveller
9
Their souls whirl in the reel, and bound with the bounding feet.
The Abominations of Modern Society
10
The fine silt was easy to whirl into the storm they'd created.
The Vanished
11
My head in a whirl, I sought out Sri Yukteswar in Serampore.
Autobiography of a Yogi
12
They must lose themselves in the dash and whirl of daring moments.
Phantom Wires: A Novel
13
In a whirl of indignation, Mrs. Hanway-Harley burst in upon Senator Hanway.
The President: A Novel
14
For somewhere in those whirl of thoughts a tiny hope had lingered.
Vlad. The Last Confession
15
All this was felt rather than thought in the whirl of action.
The Cornet of Horse: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars
16
She was in a whirl of excitement as she shut the door.
Mary Rose of Mifflin
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Translations for whirl
Whirl through the time
Whirl across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common