spiral Význam & definícia

Význam spiral v slovenčine

• 0 a shape made up of curves, each one above or wider than the one before:

  • A corkscrew is spiral-shaped.

  • This year's downward spiral of house prices has depressed the market.

  • We have to avoid the downward spiral in which unemployment leads to homelessness and then to crime.

• 1 to move in a spiral:

  • With one wing damaged, the model airplane spiralled downwards.

  • Spiralling costs have squeezed profits.

  • Violence in the country is threatening to spiral out of control.

  • He spiralled into a drug addiction that cost him his life.

• 2 shaped in a series of curves, each one above or wider than the one before:

  • a spiral staircase

  • a spiral galaxy

• 3 a shape of a continuous, curving line that forms circles around a center point:

  • A corkscrew is made in a spiral.

  • fig. Roy was bitter about the downward spiral of his life (= it was becoming continuously worse).

• 4 to move in a spiral:

  • The engine quit, and my beautiful model airplane spiraled downward.

  • High winds spiraled around the storm center.

• 5 a situation in which prices, levels, rates, etc. go down, or in which a situation gets worse and is difficult to control because one bad event causes another:

  • a spiral of sth The world's two biggest economies are caught in a spiral of borrowing.

  • This year's downward spiral of house prices has depressed the market.

  • My former colleagues have been stuck in a spiral that continues to say, the only way we can continue our profit margins is to cut good journalism, and that is to me a death spiral.

• 6 if costs, prices, etc. spiral, they increase quickly:

  • Costs spiral, and the patient is subjected to tests they don't need.

  • Inflation began to spiral upward.

  • spiral (from sth) to sth The country's foreign debt spiralled from $840 million to $2.6 billion.

• 7 if costs, prices, etc. spiral downwards, they go down quickly:

  • Stock prices have spiralled downwards for the past two weeks.

• 8 if a situation spirals out of control, it becomes impossible to control because one bad event causes another:

  • The project spiraled out of control, running $300 million over budget.

  • There is a great deal of evidence that internet gambling is spiralling rapidly out of control.