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eddy
1[ ed-ee ]
noun
- a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
- a small whirlpool.
- any similar current, as of air, dust, or fog.
- a current or trend, as of opinion or events, running counter to the main current.
verb (used with or without object)
- to move or whirl in eddies.
Eddy
1/ ˈɛdɪ /
noun
- EddyMary Baker18211910FUSRELIGION: religious leaderRELIGION: Christian Scientist Mary Baker. 1821–1910, US religious leader; founder of the Christian Science movement (1866)
eddy
2/ ˈɛdɪ /
noun
- a movement in a stream of air, water, or other fluid in which the current doubles back on itself causing a miniature whirlwind or whirlpool
- a deviation from or disturbance in the main trend of thought, life, etc, esp one that is relatively unimportant
verb
- to move or cause to move against the main current
eddy
/ ĕd′ē /
- A current, as of water or air, moving in a direction that is different from that of the main current. Eddies generally involve circular motion; unstable patterns of eddies are often called turbulence .
- See also vortex
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- un·eddied adjective
- un·eddy·ing adjective
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Example Sentences
Now 18, Ammons was a friend of Skylar Neese and a friend of one of her killers, Shelia Eddy.
Jean François Bruel, executive chef at Daniel, and Eddy Leroux, chef de cuisine, in particular.
This hurly-burly,” said he, drawing her into a quiet eddy of the stream, “is no place for the communion of two twin souls.
A dangerous eddy was barely avoided, but beyond and directly in their path a ragged rock appeared.
This family had an immense capacity for disapproval; it was awful, as Eddy had observed, for not liking people.
He felt himself caught in a mighty eddy, bearing he knew not whither; he, one wavelet amid the sea's myriads.
Well, I can—look at that bend where the round pebbles are collected so; there was a strong eddy there.
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