Eddy vs Vortex - What's the difference?
eddy | vortex |
A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
A circular current; a whirlpool.
* Dryden
* Addison
To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.
* Wordsworth
A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
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(figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
(figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
(historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
(zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
As nouns the difference between eddy and vortex
is that eddy is a current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current while vortex is a whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.As a verb eddy
is to form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.As a proper noun Eddy
is a diminutive of Edward, Edgar, Edwin, or other male given names beginning with Ed-.eddy
English
Noun
(eddies)- And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
- Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.
See also
* countercurrent * dust devilVerb
- Eddying round and round they sink.
References
Anagrams
* (l) ----vortex
English
Noun
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