Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
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Noun
S: (n) spiral (a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center)
S: (n) helix, spiral (a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle)
S: (n) spiral (a continuously accelerating change in the economy)
S: (n) spiral, volute (ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center)
S: (n) coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix (a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops) "a coil of rope"
S: (n) spiral (flying downward in a helical path with a large radius)
Verb
S: (v) gyrate, spiral, coil (to wind or move in a spiral course) "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"
S: (v) spiral (form a spiral) "The path spirals up the mountain"