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gyre

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1. gyre - Noun

2. gyre - Verb

Meaning

A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.

To turn round; to gyrate.

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Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Lewis Carroll

A clockwise warm-water gyre occupies the northern Atlantic, and a counter-clockwise warm-water gyre appears in the southern Atlantic. Source: Internet

And Brad R. Torgersen brings us "Gyre," a story of the Sargasso Containment, in which our solar system is surrounded by a mysterious, impenetrable force field—and being consumed by crippling addiction to a drug known as Rust. Source: Internet

Mean surface circulation is cyclonic and waters around the perimeter of the Black Sea circulate in a basin-wide shelfbreak gyre known as the Rim Current. Source: Internet

O'Neill, 58 Here, Yeats incorporates his ideas on the gyre a historical cycle of about 2000 years. Source: Internet

Prickett, Stephen (2005) Victorian Fantasy Baylor University Press p80 ISBN 1-932792-30-9 Lexicon "Jabberwocky" 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Source: Internet

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