virare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to turn, to rotate (the winch, in order to pull up the anchor)
  2. (transitive) to turn, to rotate (a ship, a plane)
  3. (intransitive) to veer, turn away
  4. (intransitive) to come about, change course; to tack
  5. (intransitive) to bank (of an aircraft)
  6. (intransitive) to turn (a particular color) [with a]
  7. (intransitive) to vary in color (of paint)
  8. (intransitive) to chemically replace silver granules with colored ones

Concepts

Frequency

28k
Hyphenated as
vi‧rà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/viˈra.re/
Etymology

Borrowed from Old French virer, possibly from Vulgar Latin *virāre, perhaps a cross between Latin gȳrāre and vibrō.

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