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Eddy
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What's The Definition Of Eddy?
[n] a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
[n] founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910) [v] flow in a circular current, of liquids Synonyms | Synonyms for Eddy: Mary Baker Eddy | Mary Morse Baker Eddy | purl | swirl | twist | whirl | whirlpool Related Terms | Find terms related to Eddy: ado | agitation | back | back stream | backflow | backwash | backwater | brouhaha | bustle | centrifugate | centrifuge | Charybdis | commotion | countercurrent | counterflow | counterflux | cyclone | disturbance | dizzy round | dust devil | ebullience | ebullition | effervescence | embroilment | feery-fary | ferment | fermentation | flurry | fume | gulf | gurge | gyre | hurly-burly | hurricane | hurry | hurry-scurry | Maelstrom | pell-mell | perturbation | pirouette | purl | rat race | reel | refluence | reflux | regurgitation | round | ruffle | spin | stir | surge | swirl | swirling | to-do | tornado | tumult | turbulence | turmoil | turn | twirl | twister | typhoon | uproar | vortex | waterspout | wheel | whirl | whirligig | whirlpool | whirlwind | whorl | yeastiness See Also | course | current | flow | religionist | religious person | run | stream Eddy In Webster's Dictionary \Ed"dy\, n.; pl. {Eddies}. [Prob. fr. Icel. i?a; cf. Icel.
pref. i?- back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-.]
1. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction
contrary to the main current.
2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction;
a whirlpool.
And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. --Dryden.
Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.
--Addison.
Note: Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. --Dryden.
\Ed"dy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Eddied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Eddying}.] To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. Eddying round and round they sink. --Wordsworth. \Ed"dy\, v. t. To collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. --Thomson. |
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