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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To revolve around a fixed point or axis.
  2. v. To move in spiral or spirallike course. See Synonyms at turn.
  3. v. To oscillate or vary, especially in a repetitious pattern: Stock prices gyrated around last week's high.
  4. adj. Biology In rings; coiled or convoluted.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To turn round; wheel; rotate; whirl; move round a fixed point. See gyration. Formerly also girate.
  2. In botany, curved inward like a crozier; circinate.
  3. In zoology, having convolutions like the gyri of the brain; meandrine, as a coral. See cut under brain-coral.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve.
  2. adj. biology Having coils or convolutions

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.
  2. v. To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
  2. v. to wind or move in a spiral course

Etymologies

  1. from Ancient Greek γυρός (gyros, "round, curved") through Latin into Middle English to English (Wiktionary)
  2. Late Latin gȳrāre, gȳrāt-, from Latin gȳrus, circle; see gyre. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • milosrdenstvi Mistaking my instructions, which within my brain did gyrate,
    I took and bound this promising boy apprentice to a pirate.

    Ruth, The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert & Sullivan Aug 20, 2008

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