Vortex is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VORTEX in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a whirling mass of fluid
• a whirling mass of fluid or air, especially a whirlpool or whirlwind
• A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.
• A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.
• Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.
• the shape of something rotating rapidly
• a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
• whirlpool

Words related to VORTEX

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Words that contain VORTEX

vortexes18

How to use VORTEX in a sentence

• I had stayed at Brinkley Court quite a lot in my time, but I had no idea the larder was such a social vortex.
• There was no resisting the vortex of his temperament.
• I sought to distract my mind from a sense of her desolation and my own solitude, by plunging into a vortex that was anything but pleasure.
• Circles are said to exist, but, like that in the vortex of the whirlpool, they are incessantly changing.
• THE ELECTRIC CURRENT Hinton conceived of an electric current as a four-dimensional vortex.
• This he resolutely professes himself unable to do, and begs to be allowed to leave it and plunge into the giddy vortex of the multiplication table.
• He knew well enough that, as she sank, she was bound to pull him also down into the vortex, and that from this great eddy he would never have the strength to rise.
• She was plainly not a part of the vortex that surrounded her.
• But then with fierce screams the mob broke loose, the three men were swept into the vortex of a fighting whirlpool.
• Nearly all Europe had been drawn into this vortex of fury and misery.
• For a few years in the early eighteenth century Wesley found himself in the vortex of controversy.
• The buoyant boat, rising as the sea rose, had dragged its anchor, and was floating round in the vortex made by the slowly sinking island.
• The boat turned slowly and more slowly in the lessening vortex.
• Perhaps she scarcely knew herself, so madly had she been whirled along in the vortex to which she had committed herself.
• This box will be found to serve excellently for the production of vortex rings.
• He made the fall of terrestrial bodies depend upon the action of a vortex of very subtle matter circulating around the earth.
• Moreover, the vortex of worldly dissipation that rages in the chateau is not without occasionally doing some prejudice to my independence.
• His salvation is to be freed from the vortex of births and deaths, the fret and storm of finite existence.
• We shuddered, and hastened down the narrow stairway, feeling as if all nature must speedily be drawn into the terrible vortex, and we become a mere atom amid chaos.
• The slow vortex brought the couples round and round again before him, as though he were passing them in review.
• The New World is being insensibly drawn into its vortex.
• A vortex will never make, nor allow to exist beyond its center, planets heavier than the fluid of which it is composed.
• They go there to be carried away in the vortex of a higher and greater activity.
• You are perfectly aware how much it costs, and that the whole thing is a fraud, but you cannot keep out of the vortex.
• His papers in connection with wave and vortex movements are also most remarkable.
• She had escaped from the whirling vortex of life with strenuous effort, and dragged herself bruised and aching to the bank.
• I had been thrust into the very vortex of its passion, and my name made the rallying-cry of opposing elements in California.
• The most loyal and devoted of his subjects felt that their invincible hero was drifting into a vortex of trouble.

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