belly vs spiral

belly

verb
  • To cause to swell out; to fill. 

  • To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow. 

  • To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly. 

noun
  • The stomach. 

  • The main curved portion of a knife blade. 

  • The abdomen, especially a fat one. 

  • The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part). 

  • The womb. 

  • The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back. 

  • The lower fuselage of an airplane. 

spiral

verb
  • To cause something to spiral. 

  • To increase continually. 

  • To move along the path of a spiral or helix. 

adj
  • Helical, like a spiral. 

noun
  • A helix. 

  • A section of track that forms a circle and crosses over itself, used for gaining height in mountainous territory. 

  • A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once. 

  • A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point. 

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