whirl

Significado (Inglês)

1. To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
2. To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
3. To make something or someone whirl.
4. To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.

spin

swirl

wave about

wield

whirl around

going round

revolve extremely fast

spin around

move to and fro

roll about

toss about

going round and round

be dizzy

be curled up

go round in a circle

roll into a coil

birle

wind spirally

move in a circle

spiral up

Freqüência

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wɜːl/

From Middle English whirlen, contracted from earlier *whirvelen, *whervelen, possibly from Old English *hwyrflian, *hweorflian (attested in hwirflung, hwerflung (“change, vicissitude”)), frequentative form of Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), itself from Proto-West Germanic *hwerban, from Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną (“to turn”); or perhaps from Old Norse hvirfla (“to go round, spin”). Cognate with Dutch wervelen (“to whirl, swirl”), German wirbeln (“to whirl, swirl”), Danish hvirvle (“to whirl”), Swedish virvla (older spelling hvirfla), Albanian vorbull (“a whirl”). Related to whirr and wharve.