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Whirling vs Eddy - What's the difference?

whirling | eddy |

As a verb whirling

is .

As a noun whirling

is the action of the verb to whirl .

As an adjective whirling

is that whirls or whirl.

As a proper noun eddy is

a diminutive of edward, edgar, edwin, or other male given names beginning with ed-.

whirling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to whirl .

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • That whirls or whirl.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}

    eddy

    English

    Noun

    (eddies)
  • A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
  • A circular current; a whirlpool.
  • * Dryden
    • And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
  • * Addison
    • Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.

    See also

    * countercurrent * dust devil

    Verb

  • To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.
  • * Wordsworth
    • Eddying round and round they sink.

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