Vortex

Noun

 * 1) A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
 * 2)  Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
 * 3)  Anything which inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
 * 4) A revolving mass of water which forms a whirlpool, which is caused by water flowing out of a small opening in the bottom of a basin or reservoir. A funnel-shaped opening is created downward from the water surface.

Quotations
2004: the consumer vortex that is East Hampton &mdash; The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38

Related terms

 * vortical

Verbs for Vortex
form—; sweep into—; tumble into-—; —agitates; —billows; —boils; —churns; —circumvolutes; —convolutes; —eddies; —engulfs; —expands; —foams; —gyrates; — immerses; —pirouettes; —revolves; —ripples; —rotates; —submerges; —surges; — swells; —swirls; —trundles; —twirls; — whirls.

Thesaurus
Charybdis, Maelstrom, ado, agitation, back stream, backflow, backwash, backwater, bother, botheration, brouhaha, burst, bustle, cirrus, coil, commotion, condensation trail, contrail, corkscrew, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, curl, curlicue, disturbance, dizzy round, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment, evolute, exhaust, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fidgetiness, fit, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, fume, fuss, fussiness, gulf, gurge, gyre, helix, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, involute, kink, maelstrom, pell-mell, perturbation, pirouette, pother, rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, restlessness, ringlet, roll, round, ruffle, scramble, screw, scroll, spasm, spin, spiral, spout, spurt, stew, stir, stream, surge, sweat, swirl, swirling, tendril, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turn, twirl, twist, unquiet, uproar, vapor trail, volute, volution, wake, wash, wheel, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whorl, yeastiness

Translations

 * Catalan: remolí, vòrtex
 * Croatian:
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 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: hringiða


 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish: bagerr, babelîsk
 * Portuguese:, turbilhão, redemoinho, voragem, tufão, , sorvedouro, , funil
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan: remolí, vòrtex
 * Finnish:


 * Icelandic: hringiða
 * Portuguese: turbilhão, redemoinho


 * Catalan: remolí, vòrtex
 * Finnish:, ,


 * Icelandic: hringiða
 * Portuguese: funil

Noun

 * 1) whirlpool, eddy, vortex