different between gyre vs gyse

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

Noun

gyse (plural gyses)

1. Obsolete form of guise.

Anagrams

• yegs

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (weak verb): gysa (a-infinitive)
• (strong verb):
  • gysa (a-infinitive)
  • gjosa, gjose (non-standard since 2012)

Etymology

From Old Norse gjósa.

Verb

gyse (present tense gyser, past tense gyste, past participle gyst, passive infinitive gysast, present participle gysande, imperative gys)

1. (intransitive) to shiver, tremor
2. (causative) to make someone shiver in fear

Verb

gyse (present tense gys, past tense gaus, supine gose, past participle gosen, present participle gysande, imperative gys)

1. (intransitive) to boil, swell, blow

References

• “gyse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.