gyrate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: gyrate	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for gyrate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gyrate v to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor" Synonym(s): gyrate, spiral, coil revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy" Synonym(s): spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gyrate \Gy"rate\, a. [L. gyratus made in a circular form, p. p. of gyrare.] Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gyrate \Gy"rate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gyrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gyrating}.] [L. gyratus, p. p. of gyrare to gyrate. See {Gyre}, n.] To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve.