A snail's shell is spiral in form.
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Spiral
//ˈspaɪɹəl//
Synonyms for "spiral" (242 found)
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Closest matches (49)
coilcorkscrewhelixspiralingacrobaticsaerobaticsambagiousanfractuousariseascendaspirebackhandedbankbankingbarred spiralbarred spiral galaxybecome airbornechandellecirclecircling
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circuitcircuiteercircuitioncircuitouscircuitousnesscircuitrycircularcircularitycirculatecirculationcircumambiencecircumambiencycircumambulatecircumambulationcircumflexioncircumlocutioncircummigratecircummigrationcircumnavigatecircumnavigationcircumventcirrusclaw skywardclose the circlecochlearcochleate
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (72)
coiledcome full circlecome upcompasscorkscrewycosmic noisecrabcrabbingcurlcurl upwardscurlicuecurvecycledescribe a circledeviancedeviancydeviatingdeviationdeviativedevious
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deviousnessdigressiondigressivedipdiscursivedivedivingdraperyencircleencompassentwineevoluteexcursionexcursiveexcursusfeatherfishtailfishtailingflankfloatflyfly aloftgain altitudegalactic circlegalactic clustergalactic coordinatesgalactic latitudegalactic longitudegalactic nebulagalactic noisegalactic polegalaxygarlandgirdlegirdle the globeglidego aboutgo aroundgo around in circlesgo roundgo the roundgo upgrow upgyrategyregyringhanghelical
Related words (121)
helicoidhoverindirectindirectioninvoluteisland universekinkkitelapleave the groundlevitateloomloopmake a circuitmaneuvermeanderingmilky waymountnose diveo-shaped
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obliqueorbitorbitalorbitingout-of-the-wayplaneplowpoiseporpoisepower divepull outpull uppull-uppulloutpush downpushdownrearrear uprevolveringletriserise uprollrollingrotaryroundroundaboutroundaboutnessroundingscrewscrew-shapedscrollscrolledsideslipskidskirtsoarspheroidal galaxyspinspiral galaxyspiral nebulaspirespiroidstallstand upstuntstuntingsupergalaxysurgesurroundswarm upsweep upswirltactical maneuverstake offtendriltowerturbinalturbinateturnturningtwinetwirltwistundulateupupgoupgrowupheaveupriseupspinupstreamupsurgeupswarmupwindverticillatevia lacteavolplanevolutevolutedvolutionvortexwheelwheelingwhirlwhorlwhorledwindwreatheyawzoom
Verb(1 words)
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5 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesat location
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has context
1 entriesis a
8 entriesmanner of
1 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
110 translations across 56 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- spirale noun (geometry)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἕλιξ noun (geometry)
Arabic
3 entries- بُرْغِيّ noun (geometry)
- حَلَزُون noun (geometry)
- لَوْلَب noun (geometry)
Armenian
1 entries- պարույր noun (geometry)
Asturian
1 entries- espiral noun (geometry)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- spiral noun (geometry)
Basque
2 entries- helize noun (helix)
- kiribil noun (geometry)
Belarusian
2 entries- спіра́льны adj (helical)
- спіра́ль noun (geometry)
Bulgarian
4 entries- спирален adj (helical)
- спира́ла noun (geometry)
- спирала noun (helix)
- спирала noun (self-sustaining process)
Catalan
1 entries- espiral noun (geometry)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 螺旋 noun (helix)
- 螺線 /螺线 noun (geometry)
Czech
1 entries- spirála noun (geometry)
Danish
1 entries- spiral noun (geometry)
Dutch
1 entries- spiraal noun (geometry)
Esperanto
1 entries- spiralo noun (geometry)
Estonian
1 entries- spiraal noun (geometry)
Finnish
4 entries- kierre noun (helix)
- kierre noun (self-sustaining process)
- kierukka noun (geometry)
- kierukka noun (helix)
French
3 entries- hélice noun (helix)
- spirale noun (geometry)
- spiraler verb (to increase continually)
Friulian
1 entries- spirâl noun (geometry)
Galician
1 entries- espiral noun (geometry)
Georgian
1 entries- სპირალი noun (geometry)
German
2 entries- Helix noun (helix)
- Spirale noun (geometry)
Greek
4 entries- ελικοειδές adj (helical)
- ελικοειδής adj (helical)
- ελικωτή adj (helical)
- ελικωτό adj (helical)
Hindi
1 entries- सर्पिल noun (geometry)
Ido
1 entries- spiralo noun (geometry)
Indonesian
1 entries- pilin noun (geometry)
Italian
4 entries- bovolo noun (helix)
- spirale noun (geometry)
- spirale noun (self-sustaining process)
- aumentare vertiginosamente verb (to increase continually)
Japanese
4 entries- スパイラル noun (geometry)
- スパイラル noun (self-sustaining process)
- 渦巻 noun (geometry)
- 渦巻線 noun (geometry)
Kazakh
2 entries- спираль noun (geometry)
- шиыршық noun (geometry)
Korean
4 entries- 나선 noun (helix)
- 나선형 noun (geometry)
- 라선 noun (helix)
- 라선형 noun (geometry)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- спираль noun (geometry)
Latin
2 entries- tortilis adj (helical)
- helica noun (geometry)
Latvian
1 entries- spirāle noun (geometry)
Lithuanian
1 entries- spiralė noun (geometry)
Macedonian
1 entries- спирала noun (geometry)
Māori
2 entries- tōrino adj (helical)
- makaurangi noun (geometry)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- spiral noun (geometry)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- spiral noun (geometry)
Persian
1 entries- مارپیچ noun (geometry)
Polish
4 entries- spiralny adj (helical)
- helisa noun (helix)
- spirala noun (geometry)
- spirala noun (helix)
Portuguese
1 entries- espiral noun (geometry)
Russian
3 entries- спира́льный adj (helical)
- спира́ль noun (geometry)
- спира́ль noun (helix)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- spirala noun (geometry)
- spirala noun (helix)
- спирала noun (geometry)
- спирала noun (helix)
Sindhi
1 entries- گھُنڊيدار noun (geometry)
Slovak
1 entries- špirála noun (geometry)
Slovene
1 entries- spirala noun (geometry)
Spanish
2 entries- espiral noun (geometry)
- hélice noun (helix)
Swedish
1 entries- spiral noun (geometry)
Tagalog
1 entries- balukay noun (geometry)
Tajik
2 entries- илтиво noun (geometry)
- морпеч noun (geometry)
Tamil
1 entries- சுருளி noun (geometry)
Turkish
1 entries- spiral noun (geometry)
Turkmen
1 entries- spiral noun (geometry)
Ukrainian
4 entries- спіра́льний adj (helical)
- спіра́ль noun (geometry)
- більшати verb (to increase continually)
- поступово більшати verb (to increase continually)
Uzbek
1 entries- spiral noun (geometry)
Vietnamese
1 entries- xoắn ốc noun (geometry)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
From a walk in the park it turned into a descent into maelstrom followed by a dwindling spiral of inadequate resources and insufficient time.
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A spiral staircase leads onto the gallery of the church.
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A spiral galaxy is shaped like a disk. The disk tends to resemble a pinwheel with arms which spiral outward as it rotates.
Source: tatoeba (3957791)
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