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Revolving vs Whirly - What's the difference?

revolving | whirly |

As a verb revolving

is .

As a noun revolving

is the act of something that revolves or turns.

As an adjective whirly is

(informal) visually suggestive of a swirl, whorl, or vortex.

revolving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that revolves or turns.
  • * 1867 , Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Sexology as the Philosophy of Life (page 245)
    • The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.

    whirly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal) Visually suggestive of a swirl, whorl, or vortex.
    • the whirly pattern on the wallpaper
  • (informal) That moves in a whirling motion.
    • the whirly blades on top of a helicopter