eddy
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- noun
- /ˈɛdi/
- As the ship dips lower, the rushing water forms an eddy that pulls at Murphy.
- eddy currents
- eddy flux
- eddy covariance
Examples
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A swirling little eddy of dust, red as a real devil.
Fiction book (1999) -
Finally, the heavens relented, the rain softened, and he was at an eddy in a swirling pool.
Fiction book (1998) -
There's a little eddy there.
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GRANT: All right, after this run, we're gonna come to a small eddy where there's a little beach.
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As had been the case with the dog, the current carried him into the eddy, where he paused.
Fiction book (2001) -
I know every turn of the Nile, every eddy of the Mississippi.
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Wills and Charlotte lean down on the railing, watching the water purl and eddy around Randall's Island.
Fiction book (2000) -
Konrad had spent the night paddling the canoe upstream from eddy to eddy and checking his traps.
Fiction book (2001) -
We'd already passed a flotilla of scout rafts all tethered together in a large eddy, taking flycasting lessons.
Fiction book (1994) -
The leaves swirled in the eddy as the wind picked up near the riverbank.
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Etymology
The word eddy comes from old words for a small 'whirl' in water or air. Imagine the flow turning back on itself to make a tiny circular pool, so an eddy is a small whirlpool or whirlwind.