Whirl meaning

wûrl, hwûrl
Whirl means the act of spinning or twirling, or a state of confusion.

An example of a whirl is a number of intense events that happen one right after another.

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To move while rotating or turning about.

The dancer whirled across the stage.

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To turn rapidly, changing direction; wheel.

She whirled around to face him.

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To rotate rapidly about a center or an axis; spin.
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To have the sensation of spinning; reel.

My head is whirling with data.

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Whirl is defined as to spin, rotate or move quickly in a circular motion.

An example of whirl is for a washing machine to go into the spin cycle.

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To cause to rotate or turn rapidly.

Whirl a baton.

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To cause to move with a spinning motion.

Whirled the ball up into the air.

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To drive at high speed.

Whirled the motorcycle around the corner.

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To hurl.
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The act of rotating or revolving rapidly.
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Something, such as a cloud of dust, that whirls or is whirled.
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A state of confusion; a tumult.

The press room was in a whirl.

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A swift succession or round of events.

The social whirl.

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A state of mental confusion or giddiness; dizziness.

My head is in a whirl.

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A short trip or ride.
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A brief or experimental try.

Let's give the plan a whirl.

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To move rapidly in a circular manner or as in an orbit; circle swiftly.

Couples whirling round the dance floor.

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To rotate or spin fast; gyrate.
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To move, go, drive, etc. swiftly.
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To seem to spin; reel.

My head is whirling.

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To cause to rotate, revolve, or spin rapidly.
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To move, carry, drive, etc. with a rotating motion.

The wind whirled the leaves.

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To hurl or throw.
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The act of whirling.
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A whirling motion.
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Something whirling or being whirled.

A whirl of dust.

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A round of parties, etc., one after another.
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A tumult; uproar; stir.
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A confused or giddy condition.

His head in a whirl.

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(intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.

The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.

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(intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.

My head is whirling after all that drink.

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To make something or someone whirl.

The dancer whirled his partner round on her toes.

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To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
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An act of whirling.

She gave the top a whirl and it spun across the floor.

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Something that whirls.
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My life is one social whirl.

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(usually following “give") A brief experiment or trial.

OK, let's give it a whirl.

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Origin of whirl

Old Norse: hvirfla ("to go round, spin"). Cognate to Albanian vorbull ("a whirl"). Related to whirr.

Sentence Examples

  • Coleridge was soon in the full whirl of excitement.

  • Trans., 1894) investigated the question for the cases of loaded and unloaded shafts, and, owing to the complication arising from the application of the general theory to the cases of loaded shafts, devised empirical formulae for the critical speeds of shafts loaded with heavy pulleys, based generally upon the following assumption, which is stated for the case of a shaft carrying one pulley: If Ni, N1 be the separate speeds of whirl of the shaft and pulley on the assumption that the effect of one is neglected when that of the other is under consideration, then the resulting speed of whirl due to both causes combined may be taken to be of the form N1N2~!

  • So a black whirl and torment of rapine, violence and fraud was encircling the Western world, as a life went out which, notwithstanding some eccentricities and some aberrations, had made great tides in human destiny very luminous.

  • My head is starting to whirl.

  • A roar in the hallway made him whirl.

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