Synonyms of the word

whorl

• n. A pattern of concentric circles.
• n. (botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a…
• n. (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
• n. (archaic) A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle, compare 1460.
• v. (intransitive) To form a pattern of concentric circles.

coil

• n. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
• n. Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
• n. (electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
• n. (figuratively) Entanglement; perplexity.
• v. To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
• v. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
• v. To wind cylindrically or spirally.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
• n. (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.

construction

• n. The process of constructing.
• n. Anything that has been constructed.
• n. The trade of building structures.
• n. A building, model or some other structure.
• n. (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
• n. The manner in which something is built.
• n. (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
• n. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
• n. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
• n. (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

curl

• n. A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
• n. A curved stroke or shape.
• n. A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
• n. (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
• n. (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance,…
• n. (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
• n. (agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically…
• n. (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
• v. (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
• v. (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
• v. (intransitive) To move in curves.
• v. (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.
• v. (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance,…
• v. To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
• v. To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
• v. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
• v. (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.

curlicue

• n. A fancy twisting or curling shape made from a series of concentric circles.
• v. (transitive and intransitive) To make or adorn (something) with curlicues, or as if with curlicues.

gyre

• n. a swirling vortex.
• n. a circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current.
• n. A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.
• v. (intransitive) to whirl.

hair

• n. (countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other…
• n. (uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and…
• n. (zoology, countable) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans,…
• n. (botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether…
• n. (obsolete) Haircloth; a hair shirt.
• n. (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

helix

• n. (mathematics) A curve on the surface of a cylinder or cone such that its angle to a plane perpendicular…
• n. (architecture) A small volute under the abacus of a Corinthian capital.
• n. (anatomy) The incurved rim of the external ear.
• n. An upside down midair 360° spin in playboating.

lock

• n. Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
• n. (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
• n. A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between…
• n. (firearms) The firing mechanism.
• n. Complete control over a situation.
• n. Something sure to be a success.
• n. (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
• n. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
• n. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
• n. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
• n. A grapple in wrestling.
• v. (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
• v. (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
• v. (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
• v. (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
• v. (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
• v. To furnish (a canal) with locks.
• v. To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
• v. To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
• v. (Internet, transitive) To officially prevent other users from posting in (a thread).
• n. A tuft or length of hair.

ringlet

• n. A small ring.
• n. A lock, tress.
• n. A brown butterfly with numerous small rings on under wings, in the tribe Satyrini of the family Nymphalidae,…

roll

• v. (ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward…
• v. (intransitive) To turn over and over.
• v. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
• v. (transitive) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing…
• v. (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
• v. (intransitive) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
• v. (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
• v. (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with…
• v. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
• v. (intransitive) To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
• v. (ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
• v. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
• v. (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one…
• v. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
• v. (US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
• v. (dice games, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
• v. (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
• v. (role-playing games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine…
• v. (computing) To generate a random number.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare…
• v. (transitive) To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
• v. (transitive, slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.
• v. (slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
• v. (intransitive, of a camera) To film.
• v. (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
• v. To have a rolling aspect.
• v. (figuratively, intranstive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
• v. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone.
• v. (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
• n. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
• n. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
• n. That which rolls; a roller.
• n. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
• n. (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on…
• n. (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
• n. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
• n. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
• n. (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
• n. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
• n. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
• n. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
• n. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
• n. A training match for a fighting dog.

scroll

• n. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
• n. (architecture) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant…
• n. A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed…
• n. Scroll-shaped end of a violin.
• n. (geometry) a skew surface.
• v. (computing, transitive) To change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll…
• v. (intransitive) To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.
• v. (Internet, intransitive) To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages…

spiral

• n. (geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing…
• n. (informal) A helix.
• n. A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it…
• adj. Helical, like a spiral.
• v. (intransitive) To move along the path of a spiral or helix.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to spiral.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To increase continually.

structure

• n. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
• n. The underlying shape of a solid.
• n. The overall form or organization of something.
• n. A set of rules defining behaviour.
• n. (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
• n. (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend…
• n. A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
• n. (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
• v. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

volute

• n. (architecture) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.
• n. (zoology) The spirals or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
• n. (zoology) Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae.
• n. (engineering) The casing in a centrifugal pump, whose shape is somewhat similar to architectural volutes.
• n. (art) A spiral or scroll form.
• n. (music) A scroll-shaped carving at the tuning head of a stringed musical instrument, similar to architectural…
• adj. (engineering) Of a spring: having a spiral curve on its tail.