dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/gyr_MW.json
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{
"gyrate":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to oscillate with or as if with a circular or spiral motion":[],
": to revolve around a point or axis":[],
": winding or coiled around : convoluted":[
"gyrate branches of a tree"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"They gyrated to the music.",
"the gyroscope got its name for the way the disk inside the instrument gyrates around an axis",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Many of those particles are electrically charged, and at these field strengths, the particles gyrate around the magnetic field lines at nearly the speed of light. \u2014 Paul Sutter, Ars Technica , 17 June 2022",
"These fish have a tendency to gyrate and just go crazy when trying to land them. \u2014 Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 17 Oct. 2021",
"The bright-yellow contraptions jump, twist, and gyrate in eerily perfect synchronicity. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 June 2021",
"As with Allison and Wanda, her everyday life is so stifling that Sheila becomes fixated on a different version of herself, on an image she\u2019d been taught conveys control: a skinny, peppy aerobics star who can gyrate to the beat. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 20 June 2021",
"There\u2019s an outdoor shower in which dancers get to gyrate and show off their moves. \u2014 Susan Hornik, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2021",
"Over the weekend, concerns about tighter government regulation caused the price of bitcoin to gyrate again. \u2014 Stephen Gandel, CBS News , 24 May 2021",
"The first is credit growth, which, unlike most other indicators, didn\u2019t gyrate wildly in January and February last year. \u2014 Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ , 15 Mar. 2021",
"Prices can gyrate and that can leave unwitting customers in a bind. \u2014 Ken Silverstein, Forbes , 1 Mar. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1830, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8j\u012b-\u02ccr\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"pinwheel",
"pirouette",
"revolve",
"roll",
"rotate",
"spin",
"turn",
"twirl",
"wheel",
"whirl"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093417",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gyration":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an act or instance of gyrating":[],
": something (such as a coil of a shell) that is gyrate":[]
},
"examples":[
"dizzy from the spirally gyrations of the roller coaster",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the first minutes of Face/Off, for instance, Cage gives a full-tilt gyration of his head like someone rocking out at a Black Sabbath concert. \u2014 Dan Piepenbring, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022",
"In many of these passages, facts, gyration , jive and comedy are cut across one another yet in equilibrium. \u2014 Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 2 July 2021",
"In many of these passages, facts, gyration , jive and comedy are cut across one another yet in equilibrium. \u2014 Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 2 July 2021",
"Yet what emerges from interviews with more than 60 people close to him, and with the senator himself, is a narrative less of transformation than of gyration \u2014 of an infinitely adaptable operator seeking validation in the proximity to power. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Aug. 2021",
"In many of these passages, facts, gyration , jive and comedy are cut across one another yet in equilibrium. \u2014 Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 2 July 2021",
"Simply put, the man is usually having the time of his life during his show, and Lollapalooza was no different, with each subtle gesture and wild gyration somehow calibrated for maximum audience enjoyment. \u2014 Jason Lipshutz, Billboard , 1 Aug. 2021",
"In many of these passages, facts, gyration , jive and comedy are cut across one another yet in equilibrium. \u2014 Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 2 July 2021",
"In many of these passages, facts, gyration , jive and comedy are cut across one another yet in equilibrium. \u2014 Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 2 July 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1615, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"j\u012b-\u02c8r\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"pirouette",
"reel",
"revolution",
"roll",
"rotation",
"spin",
"twirl",
"wheel",
"whirl"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201439",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"gyromagnetic":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating electrical particle":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1922, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccj\u012b-r\u014d-mag-\u02c8ne-tik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-192339",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gyromagnetic ratio":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the ratio of the magnetic moment of a spinning charged particle to its angular momentum":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1922, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-181642",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gyromancy":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": divination in which one walking in or around a circle falls from dizziness and prognosticates from the place of the fall":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably from Middle French gyromancie , from gyro- gyr- + -mancie -mancy":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8j\u012br\u0259\u02ccman(t)s\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-203843",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gyro horizon":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": artificial horizon":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1938, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193000"
},
"gyroidal":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": spiral or gyratory in arrangement":[
"\u2014 used especially of the planes of crystals"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)j\u012b\u00a6r\u022fid\u1d4al"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"gyr- + -oidal":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193326"
},
"Gyrogonites":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a form genus of stoneworts based on gyrogonites":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccg\u012br\u014dg\u0259\u02c8-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from gyr- + gon- + Latin -ites -ite":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-234607"
},
"gyrolite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a mineral Ca 2 Si 3 O 7 (OH) 2 .H 2 O consisting of hydrous calcium silicate in white concretions":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8j\u012br\u0259\u02ccl\u012bt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"gyr- + -lite":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000650"
},
"gyrolith":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the fossil nutlet of a stonewort":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02cclith"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"gyr- + -lith":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-121017"
},
"gyrogonite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a minute ovoid spiral-marked body that is the residue of the calcareous incrustation about the female sex organs of a fossil stonewort":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"j\u012b\u02c8r\u00e4g\u0259\u02ccn\u012bt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Gyrogonites":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-175839"
},
"gyroma":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": convolution : such as":[],
": the annulus of a fern":[],
": a shield somewhat resembling a button in lichens of the genus Gyrophora":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"j\u012b\u02c8r\u014dm\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek gyroun to round, bend, from gyros ring, circle":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203245"
}
}