swirling

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English

Pronunciation

Adjective

swirling (not comparable)

  1. that swirls
    • 1945 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 152:
      When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.

Noun

swirling (countable and uncountable, plural swirlings)

  1. A pattern or motion that swirls.

Verb

swirling

  1. present participle and gerund of swirl