Whirl vs. Whorl: What's the Difference?

To rotate rapidly about a center or an axis; spin.

A form that coils or spirals; a curl or swirl

To move while rotating or turning about

(Botany) An arrangement of three or more leaves, petals, or other organs arising from a single node.

To turn rapidly, changing direction; wheel

(Zoology) A single turn or volution of a spiral shell.

To have the sensation of spinning; reel

One of the circular ridges or convolutions of a fingerprint.

To cause to rotate or turn rapidly

A small pulley that regulates the speed of the bobbin of a spinning wheel.

To cause to move with a spinning motion

A small flywheel that regulates the speed of a hand-operated spindle.

To drive at high speed

Each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles, ovals, arcs, or a spiral.

(Obsolete) To hurl.

(botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.

The act of rotating or revolving rapidly.

(zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.

Something, such as a cloud of dust, that whirls or is whirled.

(anatomy) Any volution, as for example in the human ear or fingerprint.

A state of confusion; a tumult

A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle.

A swift succession or round of events

(intransitive) To form a pattern of concentric circles.

A state of mental confusion or giddiness; dizziness

A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.

(Informal) A short trip or ride.

A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.

(Informal) A brief or experimental try

The fly of a spindle.

(intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.

A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles

(intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.

A strand or cluster of hair

(transitive) To make something or someone whirl.

A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops;

(transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.

An act of whirling.

Something that whirls.

A confused tumult.

A rapid series of events.

Dizziness or giddiness.

(informal) usually following “give” A brief experiment or trial.

To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.

To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.

To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.

To move hastily or swiftly.

A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel.

Anything that moves with a whirling motion.

A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.

A whorl. See Whorl.

Confused movement;

The shape of something rotating rapidly

A usually brief attempt;

The act of rotating rapidly;

Turn in a twisting or spinning motion;

Cause to spin;

Flow in a circular current, of liquids

Revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis;

Fly around;