Whirl

Definition

whirl /wɜ:l/ v ၁။ ခ်ာခ်ာလည္သည္။ ပတ္ခ်ာလွည့္သည္။ the whirling blades of the fan ❍ seagulls whirling over the ship ❍ The wind whirled up the fallen leaves. ❍ He whirled his partner round the dance floor. ၂။ ခ်ာခနဲ လည္သည္၊ လွည့္သည္။ The houses whirled past us as the train gathered speed. ❍ He whirled round, startled. ❍ We were whirled away/off in a waiting taxi. ၃။ (အေတြး) ခ်ာခ်ာလည္သည္။ ေခါင္းေနာက္သည္။ စိတ္ေထြသည္။ I couldn't sleep: my mind was still whirling from all I had seen and heard. n [sing] ၁။ လည္ပတ္ျခင္း။ ခ်ာခ်ာလည္ျခင္း။ the whirl of the propeller blades ❍ ( fig ) The performers danced round in a whirl of colour. ၂။ လက္မလည္ေအာင္ အလုပ္မ်ား ျခင္း။ ဂ်င္ေျခလည္ျခင္း။ ပြဲဆက္မ်ားျခင္း။ an endless whirl of parties ❍ be thrust into the social whirl. ၃။ စိတ္ေထြျခင္း။ ေခါင္းေနာက္ျခင္း။ (အေတြး) ခ်ာခ်ာလည္ျခင္း။ My mind is in a complete whirl. ❏ give sth a whirl [ IDM ] ( infml ) စမ္းလုပ္ၾကည့္သည္။ The job doesn't sound very exciting but I'll give it a whirl.

Examples

1. ‘The cloud seemed to shimmer slightly
2. and then it coalesced into two whirling dust devils that raced away towards the enemy at phenomenal speed.’
3. ‘The first thing I noticed was the wind and cold exacerbated by the chopper's whirling blades blasting the freezing air down on us.’
4. ‘Will I soon be going to Tea Dances at the village hall
5. whirling Mrs Skidmore round in a slow waltz in between the cups of weak Typhoo and the Garibaldi biscuits?’
6. ‘Words peel off from the text and whirl round the reader
7. who can also hit the words so that they bounce back to the walls
8. sometimes taking up different positions from before.’
9. ‘The wind whistled through the trees
10. making the leaves whirl round Tanon's head.’
11. ‘Predictably
12. he discovered on arrival at 6.15 on Wednesday night that
13. while his golf clubs were whirling round the carousel
14. his luggage had been lost en route.’
15. ‘Every time a Philly player scores a home run
16. a huge illuminated ‘liberty bell’ will whirl around
17. flash and chime repeatedly.’
18. ‘Around her whirled a kaleidoscope of unfamiliar faces
19. a jumbled chorus of voices sounding in ten different languages.’
20. ‘All these details whirl round the hub of a performance by Stephens that excites decidedly mixed feelings.’
21. ‘They leave the walls and whirl round her
22. then fall like snow to the floor.’
23. ‘He took Becki's hands in his and they whirled round and round
24. until Becki felt rather dizzy.’
25. ‘This work conveys a sense of elements whirling about with the wind
26. much as in his In the Beginning; the artist makes good use of sgraffito to create additional designs.’
27. ‘Instead
28. the fire whipped and whirled around me
29. crawling up the walls and ceiling as it coursed through the halls.’
30. ‘The fog whirled and eddied around her as she stepped out into the cobblestone street.’
31. ‘Scarlet and rust-colored leaves whirled around his feet with the cool wind.’
32. ‘As they whirled and twirled
33. moving smoothly to the music
34. they seemed reunited.’
35. ‘But her words fell upon deaf ears
36. Tane was moving
37. spinning
38. whirling around with tears in his eyes.’
39. ‘She kicked off her sandals and we started dancing; me whirling her round and round while her bare feet flew frivolously over the grass.’
40. ‘The wind grew fiercer
41. sending leaves and twigs whirling around in the air.’
42. ‘It is also helpful to whirl the water round and then break the egg into the centre of the whirlpool.’