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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?a?.?/
• (General American) enPR: j??r IPA^(key): /d?a?.?/
• Rhymes: -a??(r)
• Hyphenation: gy?re

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin g?rus (“circle; circular motion”), from Ancient Greek ????? (gûros, “circle; ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”). The English word is a doublet of gyro and gyrus.

Noun

gyre (plural gyres)

1. (chiefly literary, poetic)
   1. A swirling vortex.
   2. A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn.

      Synonyms: circuit, whirl
2. (anatomy, zootomy, archaic) Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”)
3. (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.

Derived terms

• gyral
• gyrally
• gyreful (obsolete, rare)

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), and directly from its etymon Latin g?r?re, the present active infinitive of g?r? (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”), from g?rus (“circle; circular motion”) (see etymology 1) + -? (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

Verb

gyre (third-person singular simple present gyres, present participle gyring, simple past and past participle gyred) (literary, poetic)

1. (intransitive) To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl.

   Synonyms: revolve, rotate
2. (transitive, rare) To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl.

Derived terms

• gyring (adjective, noun)
• gyringly

Translations

References

Further reading

• ocean gyre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -ergy, Grey, grey

Latin

Noun

g?re

1. vocative singular of g?rus

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /d?a?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Etymology 1

Probably from Dutch gijben (obsolete), gijpen; cognate with Danish gibbe, German gieben, giepen, Swedish gipa, gippa.

The noun is derived from the verb; compare Dutch gjib (obsolete), gjip (“act of gybing; a boom”).

Verb

gybe (third-person singular simple present gybes, present participle gybing, simple past and past participle gybed)

1. (transitive, nautical) To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind.
2. (intransitive, nautical) Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other.
3. (intransitive, nautical) Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel.
4. (by extension, obsolete) Often as gybe at: to balk, hesitate, or vacillate when faced with a course of action, plan, or proposal.

Usage notes

Sense 3 (“to change tack”) is generally used of boats and other small sailing craft; the corresponding manoeuvre in a sailing ship is wear.

Translations

Noun

gybe (plural gybes)

1. (nautical) The act of gybing.
   1. A sudden shift of a sail's angle, or a sudden change in the direction that a vessel is sailing in.
   2. A manoeuvre in which the stern of a sailing vessel crosses the wind, typically resulting in the forceful and sudden sweep of the boom from one side of the vessel to the other.
2. (by extension) A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation.

Translations

Alternative forms

• gibe
• jibe (now chiefly US)

Etymology 2

See jibe.

Noun

gybe (plural gybes)

1. Alternative spelling of jibe (“taunt”)

Verb

gybe (third-person singular simple present gybes, present participle gybing, simple past and past participle gybed)

1. Alternative spelling of jibe (“taunt”)

References

Anagrams

• g'bye