Gyre vs Give - What's the difference?

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In intransitive terms the difference between gyre and give

is that gyre is to whirl while give is to lead (onto or into).

gyre

English

Noun

(wikipedia gyre) (en noun)

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

Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres .

* Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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)

to whirl

* 1605 , Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton , poem "From Eclogue ij":

Which from their proper orbes not goe,
Whether they gyre swift or slowe:

* 1872 , :

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

Anagrams

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give

English

Verb

(may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.

# To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).

# To make a present or gift of.

# To pledge.

# To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.

# To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in.

# To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,

# To pass (something) into (someone's) hand or the like.

# To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.

#* 1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations

Study gives' strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to '''give''' stiffness, the other suppleness: one ' gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

(may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).

To yield slightly when a force is applied.

To collapse under pressure or force.

To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.

* 2003 , Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function , page 153

who did not have a culture in which 'giving good presentation' and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.

* 2006 , Christopher Matthew Spencer The Ebay Entrepreneur , page 248

A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance of giving good "phone".

To lead (onto or into).

To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.

The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.

To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.

* Shakespeare

But there the duke was given to understand / That in a gondola were seen together / Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.

To allow or admit by way of supposition.

* Milton

I give not heaven for lost.

To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.

* Sheridan

I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover.

To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).

(dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.

* Rowe

It is given me once again to behold my friend.

* Alexander Pope

Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.

(reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).

The soldiers give themselves to plunder.

That boy is given to fits of bad temper.

To become soft or moist.

(Francis Bacon)

To shed tears; to weep.

* Shakespeare

Whose eyes do never give / But through lust and laughter.

To have a misgiving.

* J. Webster

My mind gives ye're reserved / To rob poor market women.

To be going on, to be occurring

Synonyms

* (transfer possession of) donate, pass, transfer * (bend slightly when a force is applied) bend, cede, flex, move, yield * (estimate or predict) estimate, guess, predict * (provide)

Antonyms

* (transfer possession of) get, obtain, receive, take * (bend slightly when a force is applied) not bend/cede/flex/give/move/yield, resist

Derived terms

See also'' given''', '''giver''' ''and'' ' giving * forgive * * give and take * give away * give away the store * give back * give birth * give forth * give head * give in * give it one's all * give it one's best shot * give it up for * given * give off * give one's all * give one's daughter away * give on to * give or take * give out * give over * give pause * give someone a break * give someone a chance * give someone a kiss * give someone grief * give someone the business * give someone the time of day * give something a miss * give something a shot * give something a try * give thanks * give to understand * give up * give way * it is better to give than to receive * something's got to give * what gives? * you only get what you give

Noun

(-)

(uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

This chair doesn't have much give .

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