gyre

From Latin gȳrus (“circle”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros). Doublet of gyro and gyrus.

• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)
• (UK) IPA^(key): /dʒaɪ.ə/
• (US) enPR: jīər IPA^(key): /dʒaɪ.ɚ/

gyre (plural gyres)

1. A swirling vortex.
2. A circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current.
3. A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.
   • Dryden

     Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres.

   • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

     Still expanding and ascending gyres.

   • William Butler Yeats

     Turning and turning in the widening gyre

     The falcon cannot hear the falconer […]

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:gyre.

gyre (third-person singular simple present gyres, present participle gyring, simple past and past participle gyred)

1. (intransitive) to whirl
   • 1605, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, poem "From Eclogue ij":

     Which from their proper orbes not goe,
     Whether they gyre swift or slowe:

   • 1872, Lewis Carroll, poem Jabberwocky:

     'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
     Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

• Ocean gyre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jabberwocky

• -ergy, Grey, grey

gȳre

1. vocative singular of gȳrus