(n.) A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.
(v. t. & i.) To turn round; to gyrate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The plastic - most of it swept from coastal cities in Asia and California - is trapped indefinitely in the region by the North Pacific Gyre, a vortex of currents that circulate clockwise around the ocean.
(2) It is not news that microplastic – which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration defines as plastic fragments 5mm or smaller – is ubiquitous in all five major ocean gyres .
(3) These end-to-end contacts were observed in every second gyre on the four lines surrounding the core of the axoneme at stage 3.
(4) Several sites link to the original text that accompanied the photograph when it was first used three years ago, in an online journal of the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project, in which the ice block is described as 'extraordinary'.
(5) Possible extensions of density between the gyres have been located, but these are below the significance level of the electron density map.
(6) Fortunately, Merkl said the issue is starting to rise up the political agenda, helped by the sight of giant gyres of marine debris and by people from the developed world going on beach holidays and finding plastics clinging to their bodies.
(7) Multilamellar sheets consisted of as many as 10 or 12 closely spaced gyres.
(8) The expedition was a joint effort between three non-profit groups: Eriksen's 5 Gyres Institute, the Algalita Foundation, and the Ocean Voyage Institute.
(9) These include Algalita Marine Research Foundation (founded by captain Charles Moore, who first raised the issue of microplastics in oceans), 5 Gyres, and Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation (ASC), with whom Abigail Barrows works to collect surface water samples from around the world for her research into microfibers.
(10) Most of the histone core is contained within the inner surface of the superhelical DNA, except for part of H2A which extends between the DNA gyres near the terminus of the DNA.
(11) As seen by scanning electron microscopy, the mitochondrial helix in the developing midpiece of mouse testicular spermatozoa is dextral in direction and consists of spherical mitochondrial units arranged in an orderly array of four units per gyre: three appearing in face view and a fourth hidden from view at the back of the gyre.
(12) Mitochondria further elongated and end-on touching appeared with every third gyre on the five longitudinal lines that surround the core of the axoneme (stage 4).
(13) A similar extension of a portion of histone H4 between the DNA gyres occurs close to the dyad axis.
(14) First and most surprising, the prominent coiling of the chromosomes is strongly chiral, with right-handed gyres predominating.
(15) Much of this rubbish accumulates in large ocean gyres, which are circular currents that collect plastics in a particular area.
(16) The center-to-center distance of each gyre is approximately 650 A, and the hollow structures are ca.
(17) With a change in microtubular array, the ridge surface of the nuclear helix becomes flattened and depressed; the gyres of the nuclear helix increase in number.
(18) During helical shaping of the acrosome, the microtubule bundle is closely associated with the posterior one gyre of the acrosomal helix with the same pitch as in the nuclear helix.
(19) We test nonsense when we could "gyre and gimble in the wabe".
(20) The boundary between successive gyres of the subfiber are obscured at the completion of condensation resulting in the formation of a homogenous 250- to 300-nm fiber that is the native centromere.
Whirl
Definition:
(v. t.) To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
(v. t.) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.
(v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
(v. i.) To move hastily or swiftly.
(v. t.) A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel.
(v. t.) Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
(v. t.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
(v. t.) A whorl. See Whorl.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the box the atmosphere is whirled round by a fan and hereby led over a layer of catalyst.
(2) Water contaminated by Myxosoma cerebralis was disinfected with ultraviolet irradiation to control whirling disease.
(3) But then this isn’t really a team yet, more a working model conjured out of the air by Klopp’s whirling hands on the touchline.
(4) It's tempting to see all this layering as a painstaking effort on Green's part to understand her husband's death, but it's clear she sees it more as an expression of the absence of meaning that has resulted from it, the wild and whirling words of grief.
(5) Antonio Valencia raced around like the winger of a few seasons ago; Danny Welbeck discovered an extra yard of pace and an ability to spin opponents; Wayne Rooney was once more the whirling team totem, the closest to Roy Keane the club has had since the Irishman departed nine years ago.
(6) In contrast to the more uniform localization of antigens 01 through 010 over the whole cell surface, antigens 011 and 012 are less strongly detectable on cell bodies than on processes and membranous whirls.
(7) The not yet solved and serious uncertainities which need priority in the research are, according to the speaker, the control of the amebiasis of hatchery rainbow trout, the incysted icthyophtiriasis of various fresh water fishes, the rainbow trout myxosomiasis (Whirling disease), and the argulosis of eel reared in brackish water lagoons.
(8) Pape Souaré’s substitution at half-time was presumably so Palace’s left-back could have his neck iced, so many times did he find himself whirling around in a funk trying to work out exactly where Mahrez had shimmied off to now.
(9) That it should take a young Anglo-Lebanese barrister, recently married to a Hollywood star, to reanimate the debate (in a whirl of camera-clicks and flash bulbs), says much about the times we live in.
(10) That’s when all the wealthy widows who live elsewhere the rest of the year flock to their Florida mansions and get caught up in a whirl of charity balls and dinners.
(11) The numerous internal membranous bodies, some of which arise from the plasma membrane of the vegetative hypha, may be vesicular, whirled, or convoluted.
(12) Based in the Netherlands, where he is artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam , the country's foremost theatre company, he frequently whirls his productions through European cities.
(13) Eukaryotic cell structures have been detected consisting of lamella layers whirled around the intact rickettsiae.
(14) The frequency with which the word whirling and similar words (whirlall words) were used in Rorschach tests administered to 1154 medical students 20 to 35 years ago has been counted by computer.
(15) This angelic whirling is a perfect counterpoint to the earthly chanting.
(16) In addition, a high incidence 1) of micronodular hepatocellular whirling lesions with increased basophilia, 2) of other proliferative areas of altered cellularity and 3) of precancerous nodules was found in the livers of schistosome-infected mice treated with hycanthone.
(17) The main subjective complaint was vertigo (whirling; 93%).
(18) So the studios made sure that those who appeared on screen could not be perceived as gay, marrying them off in a whirl of publicity if necessary.
(19) Give the Aussie Eggs a whirl: poached free range eggs on toast with tomato, garlic and fresh basil.
(20) Typical alterations are the vascular lesions of the conjunctiva, the whirl-like opacities of the cornea, the wedge-shaped anterior opacities and the branching spokes of the lens, as well as the vascular lesions of the retina.