Eddy vs Gyre - What's the difference?
eddy | gyre |
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 swirling vortex
a circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current
A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.
* Dryden
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning
That wel-nigh molt his hart in raging yre:
Ne thenceforth his approved skill, to ward,
Or strike, or hurtle rownd in warlike gyre , * 1607 , anonymous,
And then downe stouping, with a hundred gires : * 1666 , July 23rd, Samuel Pepys, : *: … and then by coach to St. James's and there with Sir W. Coventry and Sir G. Downing to take the gyre in the Parke. * 1919 , : *: Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; * 1985 , May, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, OTA-O-270, to whirl
* 1605 , Michael Drayton,
* 1872 , :
In intransitive terms the difference between eddy and gyre
is that eddy is to form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle while gyre is to whirl.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) ----gyre
English
Noun
(wikipedia gyre) (en noun)- Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres .
- Still expanding and ascending gyres .
Quotations
* 1590 , , book 2, canto 5, verse 8 (quoted from''The Works of Edmund Spenser , volume 3, published 1805): *: But added flame unto his former fire,
That wel-nigh molt his hart in raging yre:
Ne thenceforth his approved skill, to ward,
Or strike, or hurtle rownd in warlike gyre , * 1607 , anonymous,
Lingua, act 1, scene 10: *: First I beheld him houering in the aire,
And then downe stouping, with a hundred gires : * 1666 , July 23rd, Samuel Pepys, : *: … and then by coach to St. James's and there with Sir W. Coventry and Sir G. Downing to take the gyre in the Parke. * 1919 , : *: Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; * 1985 , May, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, OTA-O-270,
Oil and Gas Technologies for the Arctic and Deepwater, page 59: *: The ice pack north of Prudhoe Bay drifts clockwise with the movement of the Beaufort Sea Gyre'. Ice islands, large icebergs which originate from the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, can also be found drifting within the '''gyre'''. These ice islands may be 150 feet thick. Ice islands in this ' gyre may remain there for decades before leaving the Arctic Ocean.
Verb
(gyr)Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, poem "From Eclogue ij":
- Which from their proper orbes not goe,
Whether they gyre swift or slowe:
- 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;