whirl

Object

• dervish: Around the same time I actually went to see the festival of the whirling dervishes in Anatolia, in central Turkey.
• blade: Gauntlet: The gauntlet combines a whirling saw blade with a powerful electrical charge to create a deadly close-combat weapon.
• round: I was still inside the office with the water whirling round me.
• wheel: Directly opposite the entrance two more doors could be glimpsed between the pipes, conduits and whirling wheels of the generators.
• mass: The rising air condenses so that some of the water in the whirling mass falls as rain.
• dance: The real language of computers is a whirling electromagnetic dance that no human will ever speak.

Converse of object

have: On Wednesday, as soon as my mail was finished, I had a wild whirl to look forward to.

Adjective modifier

• mad: The curtain finally comes down on a mad whirl of destruction.
• social: Life is just one long social whirl, don't you know?

Modifies a noun

• pool: The heavy winds caused a whirl pool that divided the water causing the center of the lake to be visible.
• wind: Obviously could not stand the pace of this hectic whirl wind of the best Christmas Party ever held!
• round: Oh, what a strange meeting, and how it all makes my head whirl round.

Modifying Another Word

• away: The Wizard of Oz Open these pages and be whirled away with Dorothy, to the magical Land of Oz.
• about: Their punishment consists in being forever whirled about in a dark, stormy wind.
• rapidly: A vortex is a rapidly whirling spiral, a body of fluid or gas rotating around its own center.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: The snow was getting heavier and heavier whirling around my face nearly blinding me.
• up: The butterflies whirled up into the air, bright wings flashing in the level golden light, and settled along her arm.

Preposition: in

air: It consists of two thermometers mounted on the same frame that can be whirled in the air by hand.

Preposition: of

activity: We look around and smell the aromas, growing ever more curious about the whirl of activity surrounding us.

Preposition: like

dervish: Reports from the committee Barn Stuff Bryan Smith has whirled like a dervish into his new role.