Significado de "spiral" no Dicionário de Inglês

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spiralnoun [ C ]

uk ​ /ˈspaɪə.rəl/ us ​ /ˈspaɪr.əl/

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

A corkscrew is spiral-shaped.
downward spiral

C2 a situation in which a price, etc. becomes lower, or a situation gets worse and is difficult to control because one bad event causes another:

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.

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spiralverb [ I usually + adv/prep ]

uk ​ /ˈspaɪə.rəl/ us ​ /ˈspaɪr.əl/ -ll- or US usually -l-

› to move in a spiral:

With one wing damaged, the model airplane spiralled downwards.

› If costs, prices, etc. spiral, they increase faster and faster:

Spiralling costs have squeezed profits.
spiral downwards

› (of prices, etc.) to become less, at a faster and faster rate

› If a situation spirals, it quickly gets worse in a way that becomes more and more difficult to control:

Violence in the country is threatening to spiral out of control.
He spiralled into a drug addiction that cost him his life.

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spiraladjective [ before noun ]

uk ​ /ˈspaɪə.rəl/ us ​ /ˈspaɪr.əl/

(Definição de "spiral" do Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

"spiral" no Inglês Americano

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spiralnoun [ C ]

us ​ /ˈspɑɪ·rəl/

› 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).
spiral
adjective [ not gradable ] us ​ /ˈspɑɪ·rəl/

›

New playground equipment includes a large spiral slide.

spiralverb [ I ]

us ​ /ˈspɑɪ·rəl/ -l-, -ll-

› to move in a spiral:

The engine quit, and my beautiful model airplane spiraled downward.
High winds spiraled around the storm center.

(Definição de "spiral" do Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

"spiral" em Inglês para negócios

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spiralnoun [ C ]

uk ​ /ˈspaɪərəl/ us ​

› 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.

spiralverb [ I, usually + adv/prep ]

uk ​ /ˈspaɪərəl/ us ​ UK -ll-, US -l-

› also spiral up/upward(s) 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.
spiral downwards

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

Stock prices have spiralled downwards for the past two weeks.
spiral out of control

› 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.
spiralling
US spiraling

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spiralling fuel costs

(Definição de "spiral" do Cambridge Dicionário de Inglês para Negócios © Cambridge University Press)

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