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Swerve is a related term of spiral.


As a verb swerve

is to stray; to wander; to rove.

As a noun spiral is

spiral.

swerve

English

Verb

(swerv)
  • To stray; to wander; to rove.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve .
  • To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • The point [of the sword] swerved .
  • To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
  • * Book of Common Prayer
    • I swerve not from thy commandments.
  • * Clarendon
    • They swerve from the strict letter of the law.
  • * Atterbury
    • many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion
  • To bend; to incline.
  • * Milton
    • The battle swerved .
  • To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
  • * Dryden
    • The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved .
  • To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
  • of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 8 , author=Chris Bevan , title=Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Snodgrass also saw a free-kick swerve just wide before Arsenal, with Walcott and Fabregas by now off the bench, turned their vastly superior possession into chances in the closing moments}}

    Related terms

    * swarf

    spiral

    English

    (wikipedia spiral)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
  • (informal) A helix.
  • A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.

    • Derived terms

    * death spiral * downward spiral * graveyard spiral * spiral staircase * upward spiral

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Helical, like a spiral

    • Verb

  • To move along the path of a spiral or helix.
    • The falling leaves spiralled down from the tree.
  • (figuratively) To increase continually.
    • Her debts were spiralling out of control.

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