gyros

gyros — noun

1. A Greek-style pita wrap that is stuffed with slices of roasted meat, salad, and

1.名詞B1
釋義

A Greek-style pita wrap that is stuffed with slices of roasted meat, salad, and sauce.

例句

After class, Beatriz bought gyros from the blue food truck outside campus.

The Greek cafe serves chicken gyros with tomato, onion, and cool yogurt sauce.

menu collocation: chicken gyros

同義詞
  • shawarma

    a similar wrapped meat dish from Middle Eastern cooking with different seasoning traditions

  • doner kebab

    a related spit-roasted meat wrap, especially common in Turkish and European contexts

  • wrap

    a broader word for food rolled in flatbread, without the specifically Greek style

用法筆記

Common in restaurant and takeaway English. It usually names the finished pita wrap rather than only the roasted meat inside it.

2. A shortened technical word for a gyroscope, a spinning device that helps a machi

2.名詞C1
釋義

A shortened technical word for a gyroscope, a spinning device that helps a machine keep its direction or stay level.

例句

The pilot checked the gyros before the small plane left Tainan.

technical short form, often plural: check the gyros

A warning light came on when one of the gyros stopped working.

同義詞
  • gyroscope

    the full standard term, used more often in careful or formal writing

  • stabilizer

    a broader term for a part that keeps something steady, not always by spinning

用法筆記

Mostly used in technical talk about aircraft, ships, cameras, drones, and other equipment. It often appears in the plural when people describe a machine's instruments.