gyring
gyring is the present participle and gerund of gyre.
Meaning of gyre
Verb
gyre (third-person singular simple present gyres, present participle gyring, simple past and past participle gyred)
- To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl.
- The host of heauenly beautyes moue, / Depainted in their proper stories, / As well the fixd as wandring glories, / Which from their proper orbes not goe, / Whether they gyre swift or slowe: […]1605, Michael Drayton, “[Songs from the ‘Shepherd’s Garland’.] From Eclogue ij.”, in Cyril Brett, editor, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1907, →OCLC...
- To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl.
Questions about gyring
- What is gyring the present participle and gerund of?
- Gyring is the present participle and gerund of gyre.
Words near gyring in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gyring (page history and authors); gyre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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