It's better to be a shallow stream than a deep vortex.
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Vortex
//ˈvɔɹtɛks//
Synonyms for "vortex" (117 found)
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2 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesderived
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
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2 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
Translations
90 translations across 32 languages.
Aromanian
2 entries- viro noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- vãltoari noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Bulgarian
2 entries- вихър noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
- водовъртеж noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Catalan
4 entries- remolí noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- remolí noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
- remolí noun (anything which draws surrounding things)
- vòrtex noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 渦旋 /涡旋 noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Czech
2 entries- vír noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- víření noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
Danish
1 entries- hvirvel noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Dutch
4 entries- draaikolk noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- draaikolk noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
- maalstroom noun (anything which draws surrounding things)
- wervel noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Esperanto
2 entries- kirlo noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- vortico noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Finnish
4 entries- kita noun (anything which draws surrounding things)
- nielu noun (anything which draws surrounding things)
- pyörre noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- pyörre noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
French
2 entries- tourbillon noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- tourbillon noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
Galician
2 entries- remuíño noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- vórtice noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Georgian
4 entries- გრიგალი noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
- მორევი noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- მორევი noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
- მორევი noun (anything which draws surrounding things)
German
2 entries- Strudel noun (anything which draws surrounding things)
- Wirbel noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Greek
1 entries- δίνη noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Icelandic
3 entries- hringiða noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- hringiða noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
- hringiða noun (anything which draws surrounding things)
Ido
1 entries- vortico noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Italian
2 entries- mulinello noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
- vortice noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
Japanese
1 entries- 渦 noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Korean
1 entries- 소용돌이 noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Latin
1 entries- vortex noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- babelîsk noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- bagerr noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Norwegian
1 entries- hvirvelstrøm noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Polish
3 entries- wir noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- wir noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
- wir noun (anything which draws surrounding things)
Portuguese
4 entries- funil noun (anything which draws surrounding things)
- redemoinho noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- redemoinho noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
- remoinho noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Romanian
3 entries- bulboană noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- vâltoare noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- vârtej noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Russian
3 entries- вихрь noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- водоворо́т noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- воро́нка noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- vir noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- vrtlog noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- вир noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- вртлог noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Spanish
2 entries- remolino noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- vórtice noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
Turkish
3 entries- burgaç noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- girdap noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- girdap noun (anything which draws surrounding things)
Ukrainian
4 entries- буреві́й noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
- ви́хор noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- всмо́ктувач noun (anything which draws surrounding things)
- коло́ворот noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
Welsh
4 entries- chwyrlïad noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
- chwyrlïad noun (anything which draws surrounding things)
- llynclyn noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- trobwll noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
West-Frisian
3 entries- draaikolk noun (whirlpool — see also whirlpool)
- draaikolk noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
- kolk noun (anything involving violent or chaotic activity around some centre)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Is it true that my mind is only a harmony, and my soul a vortex?
Source: tatoeba (10077690)
Tom was sucked into the vortex.
Source: tatoeba (10127956)
I was pulled into the free software vortex and have never escaped.
Source: tatoeba (10127958)
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