Gored vs Gyred - What's the difference?
gored | gyred |
(gore)
(textiles) Having a gore or gores.
(gyre)
a swirling vortex
a circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current
A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.
* Dryden
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning
That wel-nigh molt his hart in raging yre:
Ne thenceforth his approved skill, to ward,
Or strike, or hurtle rownd in warlike gyre , * 1607 , anonymous,
And then downe stouping, with a hundred gires : * 1666 , July 23rd, Samuel Pepys, : *: … and then by coach to St. James's and there with Sir W. Coventry and Sir G. Downing to take the gyre in the Parke. * 1919 , : *: Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; * 1985 , May, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, OTA-O-270, to whirl
* 1605 , Michael Drayton,
* 1872 , :
As verbs the difference between gored and gyred
is that gored is (gore) while gyred is (gyre).As an adjective gored
is (textiles) having a gore or gores.gored
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- a four-gored skirt
gyred
English
Verb
(head)gyre
English
Noun
(wikipedia gyre) (en noun)- Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres .
- Still expanding and ascending gyres .
Quotations
* 1590 , , book 2, canto 5, verse 8 (quoted from''The Works of Edmund Spenser , volume 3, published 1805): *: But added flame unto his former fire,
That wel-nigh molt his hart in raging yre:
Ne thenceforth his approved skill, to ward,
Or strike, or hurtle rownd in warlike gyre , * 1607 , anonymous,
Lingua, act 1, scene 10: *: First I beheld him houering in the aire,
And then downe stouping, with a hundred gires : * 1666 , July 23rd, Samuel Pepys, : *: … and then by coach to St. James's and there with Sir W. Coventry and Sir G. Downing to take the gyre in the Parke. * 1919 , : *: Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; * 1985 , May, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, OTA-O-270,
Oil and Gas Technologies for the Arctic and Deepwater, page 59: *: The ice pack north of Prudhoe Bay drifts clockwise with the movement of the Beaufort Sea Gyre'. Ice islands, large icebergs which originate from the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, can also be found drifting within the '''gyre'''. These ice islands may be 150 feet thick. Ice islands in this ' gyre may remain there for decades before leaving the Arctic Ocean.
Verb
(gyr)Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, poem "From Eclogue ij":
- Which from their proper orbes not goe,
Whether they gyre swift or slowe:
- 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
