Dictionary Definition
Verb
1 turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The
leaves swirled in the autumn wind" [syn: twirl, twiddle, whirl]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)l
Derived terms
Translations
a twist or coil of something
Translations
a whirling eddy
- Finnish: kieputtaa
a twist or coil of something
- Finnish: kieppua
Extensive Definition
Swirl may refer to:
- Swirl (band), an Australian indie rock band
- Swirl (organization), an anti-racist grassroots organization
- Swirl 360, a melodic pop-rock band
- Swirl People, a Belgian house music project
- Sega Swirl, a puzzle game for the Sega Dreamcast
- Swirlnet, fitness solution
- Swirl (fluid dynamics), A quantity in fluid dynamics
- Tomoe, an abstract Japanese swirl-shape
- Christopher Paul Neil, a paedophile suspect also known as "Mr. Swirl"
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Charybdis, Maelstrom, ado, agitate, agitation, back stream,
backflow, backwash, backwater, beat, beat up, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, brouhaha, burst, bustle, centrifugate, centrifuge, churn, churn up, circulate, cirrus, coil, commotion, contort, conturbation, convulse, corkscrew, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, crinkle, curl, curlicue, curve, disarrange, discompose, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturb, disturbance, dizzy round,
ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment, evolute, excite, excitement, feery-fary,
ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fit, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, foment, fret, fume, furl, fuss, fussiness, gulf, gurge, gush, gyrate, gyre, helix, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly,
hurry, hurry-scurry,
inquietude, intort, involute, jitters, jumpiness, kink, maelstrom, malaise, meander, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, paddle, pell-mell, perturb, perturbate, perturbation, pirouette, pother, purl, rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, restlessness, rile, ringlet, ripple, roil, roll, roughen, round, rout, row, ruffle, rumple, scallop, scramble, screw, scroll, seethe, seething, serpentine, shake, shake up, slink, snake, spasm, spin, spiral, spurt, stew, stir, stir up, surge, sweat, swirling, tendril, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, turn, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, twitter, unease, unquiet, unrest, uproar, upset, volute, volution, vortex, wheel, whip, whip up, whirl, whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, whisk, whorl, wind, work up, worm, wring, yeastiness