Wondering how to use Gyre in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as coil or whorl.
Gyre meaning
- A swirling vortex.
- A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn.
- Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”).
Using Gyre
- The main meaning on this page is: A swirling vortex. | A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn. | Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”).
- Useful related words include: coil, whorl, roll, curl.
- In the example corpus, gyre often appears in combinations such as: warm-water gyre, the gyre, gyre and.
Context around Gyre
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gyre
- In this selection, "gyre" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, water, atlantic, tex, occupies, appears and circulation stand out and add context to how "gyre" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a vast gyre of pulverized and atlantic subpolar gyre circulation. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gyre" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gyre
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
On Tuesday night, voters rejected his politics of the widening gyre. (11 words)
The second, in the Seattle Japanese Garden, features music by Gyre. (11 words)
Examples of floating plastics collected in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre during The Ocean Cleanup's 2018 expedition. (18 words)
But they also want to put a spotlight on the far-reaching impacts of humankind on the Earth by rowing across parts of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — a vast gyre of pulverized plastic garbage occupying an area roughly four times the size of California. (45 words)
Those tipping points are the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the mass die-off of warm-water coral reefs, the thawing of Arctic permafrost, and the collapse of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre circulation. (37 words)
Understanding the Atlantic gyre and the volta do mar enabled Portuguese mariners who sailed south and southwest towards the Canary Islands and West Africa to beat upwind to the Strait of Gibraltar and home. (34 words)
Example sentences (14)
A clockwise warm-water gyre occupies the northern Atlantic, and a counter-clockwise warm-water gyre appears in the southern Atlantic.
Examples of floating plastics collected in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre during The Ocean Cleanup's 2018 expedition.
Those tipping points are the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the mass die-off of warm-water coral reefs, the thawing of Arctic permafrost, and the collapse of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre circulation.
On Tuesday night, voters rejected his politics of the widening gyre.
The research ship anchored above three locations along the route across the South Pacific Gyre and used a metal tube 5.7 kilometers long to reach the ocean floor.
But they also want to put a spotlight on the far-reaching impacts of humankind on the Earth by rowing across parts of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — a vast gyre of pulverized plastic garbage occupying an area roughly four times the size of California.
Cyanobacteria in particular, which are especially abundant in the North Atlantic Gyre, play a key role in the global carbon and nitrogen cycle.
Intense media interest in the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch — a floating, France-sized gyre of oceanic plastic — only heightened the concern.
The second, in the Seattle Japanese Garden, features music by Gyre.
It is a part of the TeX Gyre project to make updated, expanded, OpenType versions of URW's open-source fonts.
It is available both in Type 1 format citation and OpenType format. citation *TeX Gyre Pagella is another similar typeface based on the URW Palladio L font.
Mean surface circulation is cyclonic and waters around the perimeter of the Black Sea circulate in a basin-wide shelfbreak gyre known as the Rim Current.
O'Neill, 58 Here, Yeats incorporates his ideas on the gyre a historical cycle of about 2000 years.
Understanding the Atlantic gyre and the volta do mar enabled Portuguese mariners who sailed south and southwest towards the Canary Islands and West Africa to beat upwind to the Strait of Gibraltar and home.
Common combinations with gyre
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- warm-water gyre 2×
- the gyre 2×
- gyre and 2×
- gyre of 2×
- atlantic gyre 2×
- tex gyre 2×