WHIRLED

Definition: WHIRLED

WHIRLED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Whirl

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "WHIRLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Crosswords: WHIRLED

English words defined with "WHIRLED": aloft ♦ Circumrotation ♦ Potter's wheel ♦ tumble. (references)

Specialty definitions using "WHIRLED": micronizer mill ♦ SCIMETAR, sling psychrometer ♦ Typhoon'. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Pogman at Sea Whirled (Pog Sticker Books) (reference) Whirled (reference) Whirled Views: Tracking Today's Culture Storms (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Whirled (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Nettie whirled to face him : it's your fault.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	He flushed the toilet and watched thoughtfully while the water whirled in the bowl.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	So is your pastoral life whirled past and away.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certain Orientals attain a surprising proficiency, as the incident here related will serve to show. The account is translated from the Japanese by Shusi Itama, a famous writer of the thirteenth century. When the great Gichi-Kuktai was Mikado he condemned to decapitation Jijiji Ri, a high officer of the Court. Soon after the hour appointed for performance of the rite what was his Majesty's surprise to see calmly approaching the throne the man who should have been at that time ten minutes dead! "Seventeen hundred impossible dragons!" shouted the enraged monarch. "Did I not sentence you to stand in the market-place and have your head struck off by the public executioner at three o'clock? And is it not now 3:10?" "Son of a thousand illustrious deities," answered the condemned minister, "all that you say is so true that the truth is a lie in comparison. But your heavenly Majesty's sunny and vitalizing wishes have been pestilently disregarded. With joy I ran and placed my unworthy body in the market-place. The executioner appeared with his bare scimetar, ostentatiously whirled it in air, and then, tapping me lightly upon the neck, strode away, pelted by the populace, with whom I was ever a favorite. I am come to pray for justice upon his own dishonorable and treasonous head." "To what regiment of executioners does the black-boweled caitiff belong?" asked the Mikado. "To the gallant Ninety-eight Hundred and Thirty-seventh -- I know the man. His name is Sakko-Samshi." "Let him be brought before me," said the Mikado to an attendant, and a half-hour later the culprit stood in the Presence. "Thou bastard son of a three-legged hunchback without thumbs!" roared the sovereign -- "why didst thou but lightly tap the neck that it should have been thy pleasure to sever?" "Lord of Cranes of Cherry Blooms," replied the executioner, unmoved, "command him to blow his nose with his fingers." Being commanded, Jijiji Ri laid hold of his nose and trumpeted like an elephant, all expecting to see the severed head flung violently from him. Nothing occurred: the performance prospered peacefully to the close, without incident. All eyes were now turned on the executioner, who had grown as white as the snows on the summit of Fujiama. His legs trembled and his breath came in gasps of terror. "Several kinds of spike-tailed brass lions!" he cried; "I am a ruined and disgraced swordsman! I struck the villain feebly because in flourishing the scimetar I had accidentally passed it through my own neck! Father of the Moon, I resign my office." So saying, he gasped his top-knot, lifted off his head, and advancing to the throne laid it humbly at the Mikado's feet.
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Art Linkletter	Pinwheels. And when I came out and I walked up the aisle, one of them was going one way and one of them was going the other. She says, I got up a few steps and the one on the right fell off, whirled down and landed in a man's lap.
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"WHIRLED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 91.57% of the time. "WHIRLED" is used about 178 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	91.57%	163	24,498
Lexical Verb (past participle)	8.43%	15	90,616
Total	100.00%	178	N/A

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Language		Translations for "WHIRLED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		旋转 (revolve, revolved, revolving, rotational, Slewed, SPIN, Twirled, Twirling, Whirl, Whirling). (various references)

Danish		at holde gulvet og vaeggene i brydningsrummet fugtige for at undgaa at stoev, som har haeftet sig paa sidesten, hvirvles op i luften, ved omladning eller videre udvinding af kul (to ensure that the dust deposited ( or adhering to the rock ) does not get whirled up into the air, to moisten the floor and the walk of the cutter track to be stowed or caved). (various references)

Dutch		het bevochtigen van vloer en wanden van de openstaande werkplaats van de vul- of breukpijler beoogt te voorkomen dat de neergeslagen of aan de wanden hechtende stofdeeltjes wederom in de luchtstroom worden opgenomen (to ensure that the dust deposited ( or adhering to the rock ) does not get whirled up into the air, to moisten the floor and the walk of the cutter track to be stowed or caved). (various references)

French		humidifier le sol et la paroi de la havée à remblayer ou à foudroyer pour que la mise en suspension des poussières sédimentées ( ou fixées aux roches ) ne se produise pas (to ensure that the dust deposited ( or adhering to the rock ) does not get whirled up into the air). (various references)

German		wirbelte (swirled), gewirbelt (swirled, twirled), gestrudelt. (various references)

Greek		διαβροχή του δαπέδου και των παρειών της προς λιθογόμωση ή κατακρήμνηση υποσκαφής ώστε ν'αποτραπεί η επανακίνηση δια στροβιλισμού της κόν� (to ensure that the dust deposited ( or adhering to the rock ) does not get whirled up into the air). (various references)

Italian		umidificare il suolo o la parete del taglio da ripienare o da franare affinchè la messa in sospensione delle polveri sedimentate ( o fissate sulle rocce ) non si produca (to ensure that the dust deposited ( or adhering to the rock ) does not get whirled up into the air, to moisten the floor and the walk of the cutter track to be stowed or caved). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		舞い上がる (to be whirled up, to fly high, to soar). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		まいあがる (to be whirled up, to fly high, to soar). (various references)

Korean		빙빙 도는. (various references)

Pig Latin		irledwhay

Portuguese		humidificar o piso ou hasteal da talhada a entulhar ou a desabar para que não se produza entrada em suspensão das poeiras sedimentadas(ou depositadas sobre o maciço rochoso) (to ensure that the dust deposited ( or adhering to the rock ) does not get whirled up into the air, to moisten the floor and the walk of the cutter track to be stowed or caved). (various references)

Romanian		învârtit (racketeer, upstart). (various references)

Russian		кружить (ring, whirl). (various references)

Spanish		Humedecer el suelo y la pared de la roza a rellenar o a socavar para que no se produzca el paso al aire del polvo sedimentado. (to ensure that the dust deposited ( or adhering to the rock ) does not get whirled up into the air, to moisten the floor and the walk of the cutter track to be stowed or caved). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "WHIRLED": outwhirled. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"WHIRLED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hirpled, Wharfed, whered, whirle, whirli, Whirlo, Whirlow, whirrled, whorle. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "WHIRLED" (pronounced wer"ld or hwer"ld)
4	w er" l d	swirled, twirled, world.
3	-er" l d	curled, hurled, unfurled.
4	-w er" l d	swirled, twirled, world.
3	-er" l d	curled, hurled, unfurled.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-l-r-w"
	-1 letter: whiled, wilder.
	-2 letters: hider, hired, idler, riled, weird, while, whirl, wider, wield, wiled, wired, wried.
	-3 letters: deil, deli, diel, dire, dirl, drew, elhi, heil, heir, held, herd, herl, hide, hied, hire, idle, ired, lehr, lewd, lied, lier, lire, lwei, ride, riel, rile, weir, weld, whid, whir, wide, wild, wile, wire.
	-4 letters: del, dew, die.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-l-r-w"
	+3 letters: downhiller, outwhirled, withholder.
	+4 letters: downhillers, withholders.
	+5 letters: multiwarhead, overwithheld, overwithhold, withdrawable.
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