whirl vs movement

movement vs whirl

whirl and movement both are nouns.

whirl is a verb but movement is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
whirl	Yes	No	Yes	No
movement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, movement is a hypernym of whirl; that is, movement is a word with a broader meaning than whirl:

whirl: confused movement
movement: a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

Other hypernyms of whirl include motion.

whirl (noun)	movement (noun)
a usually brief attempt	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
the act of rotating rapidly	the act of changing the location of something
confused movement	a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
the shape of something rotating rapidly	the act of changing location from one place to another
	the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
	a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
	a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
	a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
	a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
	an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
	a euphemism for defecation

whirl (verb)	movement (verb)
flow in a circular current, of liquids
turn in a twisting or spinning motion
cause to spin
fly around
revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis

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