whirl

Meanings

• noun

  A swift circular motion or current of air, water, or other fluid.

  - "The leaves twirled and whirled in the autumn wind."
  - "The water in the sink began to whirl when I turned on the drain."

• verb

  To move in a swift circular motion.

  - "The top whirled around and around."
  - "The dancer whirled across the stage."

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Pronunciation

1. /wɝl/
   
   
   
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Rhymes

Words rhyming with whirl
twirl , swirl , curl , pearl , whorl

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Variants

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whirl , whirled , whirler , whirlers , whirling , whirls , give (something) a whirl , give a whirl , give something a whirl , the social whirl

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Etymology

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Old English hweorlan; related to hweoran 'to turn'.

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Trivia

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1. A whirlwind is a violent, rotating column of air.

2. The term 'whirl' is also used in the context of a musical term meaning a rapid succession of sixteenth notes.

3. The word 'whirl' appears in the title of the classic poem 'The Whirligig of Time' by Robert Herrick.

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Related Concepts

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1. vortex: A whirlpool or any other circular current of fluid, especially a violent one.

2. cyclone: A large, violent storm with a circular wind pattern.

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Culture

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In literature, whirl is often used to describe a sense of chaos or motion, such as in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: 'They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made... Even alone, in the room, there was a feeling of confinement, of too many wasted lives, of the shortness of the hour.'

How to Memorize "whirl"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a top spinning or a whirlpool in the water.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word with circular motion or spinning.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic 'Whirl is a circular motion that twirls and curls'.

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