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vortex
English
Etymology
From Latin vortex.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?v??t?ks/
- (US)
Noun
vortex (plural vortexes or vortices)
- A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
- (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
- 2004: the consumer vortex that is East Hampton — The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38
- (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 1
- In early youth, the living drama acted around me, drew my heart and soul into its vortex.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 1
- (historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
- (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
Derived terms
Related terms
- vortical
- vorticity
Translations
See also
- eddy
- ley line
- maelstrom
References
- vortex in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- vortex in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
French
Etymology
From Latin vortex
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v??.t?ks/
Noun
vortex m (uncountable)
- vortex
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?u?or.teks/, [?u??rt??ks?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?vor.teks/, [?v?rt??ks]
Noun
vortex m (genitive vorticis); third declension
- Archaic form of vertex.
Inflection
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- vortex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vortex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- vortex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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tidal
English
Etymology
From tide +? -al
Pronunciation
- enPR: t?d-(?)l, IPA(key): /?ta?d(?)l/
- Rhymes: -a?d(?)l
Adjective
tidal (not comparable)
- relating to tides
Derived terms
Related terms
- tide
Translations
Anagrams
- Dalit, Tilda, datil, dital, latid
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