Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of gyrating.
- n. Circular or spiral motion.
- n. An oscillation or varying between states: "increased volatility and unprecedented gyrations in interest rates” ( Jack Egan).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A wheeling; whirling; revolution; a wheeling motion, like that of the moon round the earth. Specifically— A revolution round a distant center combined with a synchronal rotation in the same direction round the gyrating body's center.
- n. Tn univalve shells, one of the whorls of the spire.
- n. Any system of gyri or convolutions in the brain.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution.
- n. One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution.
- n. (Zoöl.) One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of rotating in a circle or spiral
- n. a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
Examples
“The current "gyration" is already down 48\% since May.”
“So-called high-frequency trading firms drew suspicions following the gyration, but an internal report by German exchange operator Deutsche Börse AG, completed this month but not widely circulated, determined that such participants' rapid buying and selling actually helped absorb some of the market shock.”
The Wall Street Journal: High-Speed Traders Off Hook in Germany
“Up and down, shifting and tilting, suddenly spinning when I least expect it -- at no time have I even had the chance to sit back and enjoy the thing without worrying what may be coming with the next gyration.”
“Even more, the men in Senegal don't salivate over these dancers or seem to get turned on by the X rated moves -- a stark contrast to how males in America behave amidst the disposable aphrodisiac of female gyration.”
“I prefer enjoying Hulu through the browser using a handheld mouse (gyration).”
“But viewers glued to their TV sets could hear the screaming studio audience come alive with each gyration.”
Devra Maza: Michael Jackson's Other Big Move: The Crotch-Grab
“U.S. market authorities are scrutinizing the interplay among stocks, futures and options markets as they work to tailor new rules to curb the type of sudden price gyration seen May 6.”
The Wall Street Journal: CME Chairman Comfortable With Current Safeguards
“U.S. market authorities are scrutinizing the complex interplay between stocks, futures and options markets as they work to tailor new rules to curb the type of sudden price gyration seen May 6, according to the top U.S. futures regulator.”
“When the market turned ugly in the spring, Sunday Journal was on top of every gyration from the euphoria of April's market highs to the pandemonium of May's 1,000-point "flash crash.”
“No fathomable gyration of the numbers can get her an advantage in the only metric that actually counts.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gyration’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words without the letter E
chord, slur, anabaptist, anabolic, diabolic, turbid, torpid, somniloquist, trump, bipolar, dioxin, hydrocarbon and 107 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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theastic's Words
cellar, stalemate, wrought, opal, tyrant, squelch, squab, linen, tartan, paisley, scope, siren and 395 more...
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Words. Just words.
Our chief weapons are words, that's all. Just words. Only words, not justly words, that is.
That is to say that there are only words in this list, not words that are just, although s...profligacy, monty, the arc of history, luddite, peremptory, brusque, languid, callipygian, perniciously, insidiousness, camelot, perforce and 189 more...
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Words of the Dying Earth
Tales of the Dying Earth is a 2002 anthology volume featuring four novels by Jack Vance: The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Rhialto the Marvellous.
Throughou...deodar, deodand, pelgrane, leucomorph, blister-bush, russet, black burdock, gunmetal, spatterlight, carrack, concertina, terce and 280 more...
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Turning and Twisting Tours
words in the nature of double spirals
swift, swerve, swirl, swivel, swarm, swag, swank, swoop, swinge, swarf, spire, esparto and 361 more...
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roundabout
words that imply circular direction or shape
circumlocutious, rotunda, circumfrence, spiral, gyration, orbicular, merry-go-round, encyclical, circumbendibus
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Nashisms
Snips and snippets of Nash found here and there...
mouseholed, winda, pyrate, realio, jangling squirm, lllama, pyjama, trulio, flickering indeci..., ilk, narra, prepoceros and 18 more...
Tweets
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trivet My favorite gyration citation:
Ink and Blink in glee did gyrate
Around the dragon that ate the pyrate.
-Ogden Nash, The Tale of Custard the Dragon Nov 21, 2008
reesetee Hahaha! I forgot about this poem! Thanks, bilby.
*gyrates Elizabethan style* Nov 21, 2008
chained_bear (*in the style of William Shakespeare*) Nov 21, 2008
bilby
O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.
Anon, once more the gesture, then begin:
Command sinistral pedestal to writhe.
Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke,
A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl.
To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke.
- Jeff Brechlin, 'The Hokey-Poke'. Nov 21, 2008