eddy
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.
to move or whirl in eddies.
Origin of eddy
1Other words from eddy
- un·ed·died, adjective
- un·ed·dy·ing, adjective
Other definitions for Eddy (2 of 2)
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How to use eddy in a sentence
I depart as air ... I shake my locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.
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The eddies beyond the breakwater were a light and delicate mauve and looked nervously alive.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensThe wind that was sighing in the trees was whirling the dead leaves about in little eddies as they floated to earth.
Marguerite | Anatole FranceThe mind runs ever in a thousand eddies like a river between cliffs.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis Stevenson
See, Wharton, there is a man crossing in the very eddies of the cataract, and in a skiff no bigger than an egg-shell.
The Spy | J. Fenimore CooperThrough the ravine runs a brook; the tiny pebbles at its bottom are all aquiver through its clear eddies.
Dream Tales and Prose Poems | Ivan Turgenev
British Dictionary definitions for eddy (1 of 2)
/ (ˈɛdɪ) /
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
to move or cause to move against the main current
Origin of eddy
1British Dictionary definitions for Eddy (2 of 2)
/ (ˈɛdɪ) /
Mary Baker. 1821–1910, US religious leader; founder of the Christian Science movement (1866)
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Scientific definitions for 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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