EDDY (eddied)

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Irregular inflected form: eddied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eddy mean? 

• EDDY (noun)
  The noun EDDY has 2 senses:

1. founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910)

2. a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself

  Familiarity information: EDDY used as a noun is rare.

• EDDY (verb)
  The verb EDDY has 1 sense:

1. flow in a circular current, of liquids

  Familiarity information: EDDY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Eddy; Mary Baker Eddy; Mary Morse Baker Eddy

Instance hypernyms:

religious person (a person who manifests devotion to a deity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

eddy; twist

Hypernyms ("eddy" is a kind of...):

current; stream (a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes))

Derivation:

eddy (flow in a circular current, of liquids)

• EDDY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they eddy    ... he / she / it eddies   
Past simple: eddied   
Past participle: eddied   
-ing form: eddying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flow in a circular current, of liquids

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

eddy; purl; swirl; whirl; whirlpool

Hypernyms (to "eddy" is one way to...):

course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

eddy (a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself)

 Context examples 

There is a fierce eddy between the wharf and the house.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Last day to Dawson very bad. Shore-ice in all the eddies, mush-ice in the stream. I cannot paddle. The canoe freeze to ice.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Testing the RF shield around the coils of an MRI device for its ability to provide effective screening against electrical (eddy) currents induced by gradient switching.

(Device Gradient Induced Field Effect Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

In both cases, the researchers identified areas where the flow of the gas did not match its surroundings — a bit like eddies around a rock in a river.

(ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star, ESO)

This finding came out of research focusing on how the physics of ocean eddies organizes biological activity.

(Blue sharks use ocean eddies as fast-tracks to food, National Science Foundation)

The results revealed vigorous, fire-generated updrafts and strongly turbulent eddies that formed along the fire plume's edges.

(Researchers discover how wildfires create their own weather, National Science Foundation)

There it fell with mighty splash, one jagged end peaking out above the surface, while the waters bubbled and foamed with far-circling eddy.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Below the rapid was a second pool, and here, captured by the eddy, he was gently borne to the bank, and as gently deposited on a bed of gravel.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Some eddying fragments I saw in the sea, as if a mere cask had been broken, in running to the spot where they were hauling in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Its wild water defied the frost, and it was in the eddies only and in the quiet places that the ice held at all.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)