whorls

Meaning of whorls

plural noun
  1. a pattern of spirals or concentric circles.
    Shelley drew larger and larger dark whorls on her notepad
  2. a small wheel or pulley in a spinning wheel, spinning machine, or spindle.

verb, 3rd person present

spiral or move in a twisted and convoluted fashion.

late Middle English (denoting a small flywheel): apparently a variant of whirl, influenced by Old English wharve ‘whorl of a spindle’.

Information about whorls

  • The singular form of whorls is: whorl.
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Hyphenation of whorls

whorls

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • whorls is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

whorls synonyms

Meaning a length of thread, rope, or similar material, doubled or crossing itself, used as a fastening or handle:

loop

Meaning a single ring in a coil:

coil

Meaning a circular band of metal, wood, or similar material, especially one used for binding the staves of barrels or forming part of a framework:

hoop

Meaning a small circular band, typically of precious metal and often set with one or more gemstones, worn on a finger as an ornament or a token of marriage, engagement, or authority:

ring

Meaning an act of moving something in a circular direction round an axis or point:

turn

Meaning something in the shape of a spiral or coil, especially a lock of hair:

curl

Meaning an act of spinning:

twirl

Meaning an act of twisting something around a stationary point:

twist

Meaning a spiral curve, shape, pattern, or object:

spiral

Meaning an object having a three-dimensional shape like that of a wire wound uniformly in a single layer around a cylinder or cone, as in a corkscrew or spiral staircase:

helix

Meaning the flat area between the waist and knees of a seated person:

lap

Meaning each in a series of rows or levels of a structure placed one above the other:

tier

Meaning a mechanism for keeping a door, window, lid, or container fastened, typically operated by a key:

lock

Meaning a coil or twist:

convolution

Words that rhyme with whorls

ceorls, eorls, schorls, shorls

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