GYRATE


Meaning of GYRATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dʒaɪreɪt, AM dʒaɪreɪt ]

( gyrates, gyrating, gyrated)

1.

If you gyrate , you dance or move your body quickly with circular movements.

The woman began to gyrate to the music.

...a room stuffed full of gasping, gyrating bodies.

VERB : V , V-ing

• gy‧ra‧tion

(gyrations)

Prince continued his enthusiastic gyrations on stage.

N-COUNT : usu pl

2.

To gyrate means to turn round and round in a circle, usually very fast.

The aeroplane was gyrating about the sky in a most unpleasant fashion.

VERB : V prep , also V

3.

If things such as prices or currencies gyrate , they move up and down in a rapid and uncontrolled way. ( JOURNALISM )

Interest rates began to gyrate up towards 20 per cent in 1980 and then down and up again.

VERB : V adv / prep , also V

• gy‧ra‧tion

...the gyrations of the currency markets.

N-COUNT : usu pl , with supp

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