Thesaurus / gyre
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The gyre, which lies between Hawaii and California, is formed by rotating ocean currents and has, over the past 50 plus years, become a reservoir for plastic litter of all sizes.
THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH IS A ‘RAFT OF LIFE’ FOR ANIMALS IN THE OPEN OCEANKATE BAGGALEYDECEMBER 3, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCESide 2 sends Barnes into the twisty, noisy gyre of a 12-minute track called “The Past Is a Grotesque Animal.”
CRY YOUR HEART OUT: THE 11 BEST BREAKUP ALBUMS EVER MADEPETER ALLEN CLARKSEPTEMBER 17, 2021TIMEBy staying within the gyre, vulnerable young sea turtles can remain relatively safe.
HOW SEA TURTLES FIND THEIR WAY - ISSUE 94: EVOLVINGJASON G. GOLDMANDECEMBER 16, 2020NAUTILUSLikewise, where the gyre glances off the coast of Africa and returns to the Americas, a second current flowing the opposite direction continues south past the equator and away from the rest of the population.
HOW SEA TURTLES FIND THEIR WAY - ISSUE 94: EVOLVINGJASON G. GOLDMANDECEMBER 16, 2020NAUTILUSThe extremely slow collection of organic material and other sediments below a gyre does allow oxygen in the water to seep deep into the sediment.
SOME DEEP-SEAFLOOR MICROBES STILL ALIVE AFTER 100 MILLION YEARS!CAROLYN GRAMLINGSEPTEMBER 1, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSDorsally, the fissure bifurcates, embracing the gyre indented by the caudal limb of the paracentral.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCEMARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)Ay, and the elves and gyre-carlings frae the bonnie bairn, grace be wi' it?
GUY MANNERING, OR THE ASTROLOGER, COMPLETE, ILLUSTRATEDSIR WALTER SCOTTGyre (derived from Gayour or Giaour, a dog), “to scratch like a dog.”
LEWIS CARROLL IN WONDERLAND AND AT HOMEBELLE MOSESWORDS RELATED TO GYRE
- alternate
- be in sequence
- bowl
- circle
- circumduct
- coil
- curve
- drape
- drive
- eddy
- elapse
- enfold
- entwine
- envelop
- flow
- fold
- follow
- furl
- go around
- go past
- gyrate
- gyre
- impel
- pass
- pirouette
- pivot
- propel
- reel
- rock
- rotate
- run
- spin
- spiral
- succeed
- swaddle
- swathe
- swing around
- swirl
- swivel
- trundle
- twirl
- twist
- undulate
- wheel
- whirl
- wind
- wrap
- about-face
- angle
- bend
- bias
- bow
- branch
- change
- changeabout
- circle
- circuit
- circulation
- circumvolution
- corner
- curve
- cycle
- departure
- detour
- deviation
- direction
- drift
- flection
- flexure
- fork
- gyration
- gyre
- heading
- hook
- pirouette
- pivot
- quirk
- retroversion
- reversal
- reverse
- reversion
- right-about
- roll
- rotation
- round
- shift
- spin
- spiral
- swing
- tack
- tendency
- trend
- turnabout
- turning
- twist
- twisting
- wheel
- whirl
- wind
- winding
- yaw
- arc
- bend
- circle
- circulate
- circumduct
- come around
- corner
- cut
- eddy
- go around
- go round
- ground
- gyrate
- gyre
- hang a left
- hang a right
- incline
- loop
- make a left
- make a right
- move in a circle
- negotiate
- orbit
- oscillate
- pass
- pass around
- pirouette
- pivot
- roll
- rotate
- round
- spin
- sway
- swing
- swivel
- take a bend
- twirl
- twist
- vibrate
- weave
- wheel
- whirl
- wind
- yaw
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