What is gyre mean?
: a circular or spiral motion or form especially : a giant circular oceanic surface current. gyre. verb. gyred; gyring.
How do you pronounce Gyre and Gimble?
The new words, in the poem “Jabberwocky”, have given rise to some differences of opinion as to their pronunciation: so it may be well to give instructions on that point also. Pronounce “slithy” as if it were the two words “sly, the”: make the “g” hard in “gyre” and “gimble“: and pronounce “rath” to rhyme with “bath”.
What is a sentence for gyres?
Upwelling occurs in the northern gyre and downwelling in the southern gyre. Subtropical gyres occupy a large fraction of the world’s ocean and are more productive than originally thought.