vorex.html - adj.
1 greedy in eating, ravenous.
2 very eager in some activity (a voracious reader).

voraciously adv. voraciousness n. voracity n. [L vorax f. vorare devour]

vorex.html - n.
(pl. vortexes or vortices)
1 a mass of whirling fluid, esp. a whirlpool or whirlwind.
2 any whirling motion or mass.
3 a system, occupation, pursuit, etc., viewed as swallowing up or engrossing those who approach it (the vortex of society).
4 Physics a portion of fluid whose particles have rotatory motion.

vortex-ring a vortex whose axis is a closed curve, e.g. a smoke-ring.

vortical adj. vortically adv. vorticity n. vorticose adj. vorticular adj. [L vortex -icis eddy, var. of VERTEX]

vorex.html - n.
any sedentary protozoan of the family Vorticellidae, consisting of a tubular stalk with a bell-shaped ciliated opening. [mod.L, dimin. of VORTEX]

vorex.html - n.
1 Art a painter, writer, etc., of a school influenced by futurism and using the 'vortices' of modern civilization as a basis.
2 Metaphysics a person regarding the universe, with Descartes, as a plenum in which motion propagates itself in circles.

vorticism n.

vorex.html - See: AT THE TOP OF ONE'S VOICE, GIVE VOICE.

vorex.html - {n.} The part of the throat where the sound of your voice is made; the larynx. * /Mr. Smith's voice box was taken out in an operation, and he could not talk after that./