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(n)
(Internet slang, LGBTQ) A girl of boyish appearance.
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(v)
(ambitransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy.
A twisting force.
A swirling body of water.
A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
(intransitive) To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado.
(intransitive) To form cracks.
A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
(intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
To change place.
(transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
(Scotland, Northern England) To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes.
An agitated disturbance or a hubbub.
(obsolete) To swallow up.
A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
A proposal that has been made.
(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
(adj)
Having many twists
Any rotating movement; a spin.
To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
fly around
The motion of something that spins.
(figuratively) A chaotic or turbulent situation.
(chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
A light, brief snowfall; a shower of snow.
(mathematics, fluid dynamics) A property of a fluid flow related to local angular rotation; defined as the curl of the flow's velocity field.
(US) A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions; e.g., near the end of the academic year.
Synonym of Pakistani.
A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing, primarily in ballet.
A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
Roi islet, Kwajalein atoll, Marshall Islands.
(intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
(intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl about.
(intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl around.
(ambitransitive) to rotate; to revolve
(intransitive) To rise upward in a whirl.
(anatomy) A turbinal or turbinate bone.
(oceanography) An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.
(transitive) To change or reverse the position of.
A turning, twisting or spinning motion.
(transitive) To travel around (something) physically.
(informal) Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
To turn around and around; to whirl.
(Physical movement.) (intransitive) To orbit a central point (especially of a celestial body).
The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
(intransitive, obsolete) To whirl around; revolve.
(rare, transitive) To surpass in whirling or spinning.
A ripple; a twist or curl.
A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
(predicative only) Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.
(intransitive) To revolve
A type or way of weaving.
(intransitive) To move one way then the other, or in unpredictable erratic gyrations.
The act of swivelling.
Obsolete form of roll. [The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.]
A surname from German.
(business, uncountable) Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
(transitive) To throw (something) with force.
(obsolete, UK, law) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit
(chiefly dialectal, Southern US, Midland US) To curl or twirl, or twist or coil (up).
A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
Hard work.
(ambitransitive, poetic) To twist upward.
A rotational motion, especially that given to a ball, in which the upper surface spins in the direction of motion.
(transitive) To wind (a thing) about; involve; envelop (with).
(obsolete) A sudden or quick movement; a whirr.
Spin applied to a ball in order to slow it, change its flight, or stop it when it lands.
Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
(intransitive) To make a rolling motion or turn.
A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion.
(geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
(technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
(intransitive) To move or revolve around something.
(intransitive) To move about on the ground while rotating and turning one's body.
A change of direction or orientation.
A twist; curl.
The act, or an instance, of swinging.
(transitive, figurative) To change drastically in a fundamental way, often for the better; to change to the opposite (opinion or position).
(transitive) To produce by churning.
A rotational motion, especially that given to a ball, in which the upper surface spins in the direction of motion; topspin;top.
A large amount.
(idiomatic) To make a complete circuit.