Whirl vs. Whorl
Whirlverb
(intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
Whirlverb
(intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
Whirlverb
(transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
Whirlverb
(transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
Whirlnoun
An act of whirling.
Whirlnoun
Something that whirls.
Whirlnoun
A confused tumult.
Whirlnoun
A rapid series of events.
Whirlnoun
Dizziness or giddiness.
Whirlnoun
(informal) usually following “give” A brief experiment or trial.
Whirlverb
To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
Whirlverb
To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.
Whirlverb
To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
Whirlverb
To move hastily or swiftly.
Whirlnoun
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.
Whirlnoun
Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
Whirlnoun
A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
Whirlnoun
A whorl. See Whorl.
Whirlnoun
confused movement;
Whirlnoun
the shape of something rotating rapidly
Whirlnoun
a usually brief attempt;
Whirlnoun
the act of rotating rapidly;
Whirlverb
turn in a twisting or spinning motion;
Whirlverb
cause to spin;
Whirlverb
flow in a circular current, of liquids
Whirlverb
revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis;
Whirlverb
fly around;
Whirlverb
move or cause to move rapidly round and round
Whirlverb
move or cause to move rapidly
Whirlverb
(of the head, mind, or senses) seem to spin round
Whirlnoun
a rapid movement round and round.
Whirlnoun
frantic activity of a specified kind
Whirlnoun
a specified kind of sweet or biscuit with a spiral shape
Whorlnoun
A pattern of concentric circles.
Whorlnoun
(botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
Whorlnoun
(zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
Whorlnoun
(anatomy) Any volution, as for example in the human ear.
Whorlnoun
(archaic) A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle (attested in English from 1460)
Whorlverb
(intransitive) To form a pattern of concentric circles.
Whorlnoun
A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
Whorlnoun
A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
Whorlnoun
The fly of a spindle.
Whorlnoun
a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
Whorlnoun
a strand or cluster of hair
Whorlnoun
a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops;
Whorlnoun
a pattern of spirals or concentric circles
Whorlnoun
each of the turns or convolutions in the shell of a gastropod or ammonoid mollusc.
Whorlnoun
a set of leaves, flowers, or branches springing from the stem at the same level and encircling it.
Whorlnoun
(in a flower) each of the sets of organs, especially the petals and sepals, arranged concentrically round the receptacle.
Whorlnoun
a complete circle in a fingerprint.
Whorlnoun
a small wheel or pulley in a spinning wheel, spinning machine, or spindle.
Whorlverb
spiral or move in a twisted and convoluted fashion.
