Eddy

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  • noun. A current, as of water or air, moving contrary to the direction of the main current, especially in a circular motion.
  • noun. A drift or tendency that is counter to or separate from a main current, as of opinion, tradition, or history.
  • intransitive verb. To move in or as if in an eddy or eddies: synonym: turn.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A part of a fluid, as a stream of water, which has a rotatory motion; any small whirl or vortex in a fluid.
  • noun. Synonyms See stream.
  • To move circularly or in a winding manner, as the water of an eddy, or so as to resemble the movement of an eddy.
  • To cause to move in an eddy; collect as into an eddy; cause to whirl.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.
  • transitive verb. To collect as into an eddy.
  • noun. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
  • noun. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current. Especially a circular current.
  • verb. To form an eddy.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910)
  • verb. flow in a circular current, of liquids
  • noun. a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
    • Word Usage
    "Because of the apparently irregular course taken by the current, these currents are called eddy currents."
    cross-reference
    countercurrent  dust devil  tidal eddy  
    Form
    eddied  eddying  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    course  current  feed  flow  religious person  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Eddie  Freddie  Freddy  Reddy  Teddie  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cross-currents  ebb  fluctuation  gust  maelstrom  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Charybdis  Maelstrom  ado  agitation  back  
    variant
    eddied  
    verb-form
    eddied  eddies  eddying  
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