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(noun) flying downward in a helical path with a large radius |
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Related Words: rotation |
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(verb) form a spiral; "The path spirals up the mountain" |
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Related Words: curve, wind |
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(noun) a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center |
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Synonyms: volute |
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Related Words: decoration, ornament, ornamentation |
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(noun) a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at ever-greater distances from it |
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Related Words: curve, curved shape |
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(verb) to wind or move in a spiral course:" the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action,", "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor" |
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Synonyms: coil, gyrate |
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Related Words: turn |
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(verb) move in a spiral or zigzag course |
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Synonyms: corkscrew |
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Related Words: turn |
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(noun) something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope" |
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Synonyms: coil, helix, volute, whorl |
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Related Words: construction, hank, structure |
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(noun) a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle |
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Synonyms: helix |
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Related Words: curve, curved shape |
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(satellite adjective) in the shape of a coil |
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Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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