SkyfireDict

spiral   (TTS Sound)

The noun spiral has 6 senses

• spiral -- (a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center)


• helix, spiral -- (a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle)


• spiral -- (a continuously accelerating change in the economy)


• spiral, volute -- (ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center)


• coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix -- (a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope")


• spiral -- (flying downward in a helical path with a large radius)

The verb spiral has 3 senses

• gyrate, spiral, coil -- (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")


• spiral -- (form a spiral; "The path spirals up the mountain")


• corkscrew, spiral -- (move in a spiral or zigzag course)

The adj spiral has 1 sense

• coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate -- (in the shape of a coil)