Pronounced: TROW-zurh roll, noun
Notes: You can probably guess the meaning of this phrase
Yesterday’s word
The word gyre is “a circular or spiral motion or form; especially a giant circular oceanic surface current.”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1500s
Background / Comments
It is odd how one hears something, and then encounters it again. I recently heard a reference to the poem The Second Coming, which contains the line Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; (it was written by Yeats in 1920, but I didn’t know that). As it happens, that very poem contains our word (turning in the widening gyre). Our word came from the Latin word gyrus, which came from the Greek word gyros (ring; circle). As you may thinkg from the definition above, our word is often used in oceanographic realm.
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