Thesaurus: eddy

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1. n. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
2. n. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.
3. v. i. To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.
4. v. t. To collect as into an eddy.
5. n. a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
6. v. flow in a circular current, of liquids
7. 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. To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth. To collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.
8. To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth.
9. v:34/n:66 n. founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910) n. a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself v. flow in a circular current, of liquids