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Meanings of whorl in English
Usage of whorl in English
1
This precludes the classification of the central pocket loop type of whorl.
2
A full quarter of the hindward whorl was gone, sliced off cleanly.
3
Traced each whorl of muted colour in the rug, one by one.
4
Samuel Teece gutted the car out in a great whorl of dust.
5
I stare at a wall-tile whorl as minutes spin by and die.
6
The sun was a whorl of fire in the middle of the sky.
7
Each whorl was given an arbitrary number according to its position.
8
Figure 314 is an accidental whorl, combining a loop and a tented arch.
9
The tracing of the whorl does not enter into the determination of the primary.
10
It has characteristics of three types, the whorl, the loop, and the tented arch.
11
Both Anthidia colonize only the second whorl of the spiral.
12
She was like some moth in a whorl of butterflies.
13
If the second whorl is opaque, the spiral contains something.
14
Figure 334 is a whorl of the double loop type.
15
She held up a clip-on earring that was a whorl of multicolored blue beads.
16
Rolled into a compact whorl, she fills the whole pan.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common