(n.) A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
(n.) A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.
(v. i.) To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.
(v. t.) To collect as into an eddy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
(2) Read more Grabban, who moved to Carrow Road from Bournemouth in 2014 for around £3m, has been a target for Eddie Howe for some time and the manager had three bids for him turned down in the summer.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones play the couple in The Theory of Everything.
(4) We believe Oisin has a very exciting future at the BBC.” Clarkson, May and Hammond have signed up to launch a rival show on Amazon’s TV service , while Chris Evans is currently filming a new series of the BBC’s Top Gear show with fellow presenters Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Jordan.
(5) There were signs of encouragement early in the second half from Sunderland, and they should have pulled one back only for a terrible call from the assistant referee Eddie Smart.
(6) The most consistently sensational evidence from Icac has been around former Labor member Eddie Obeid and the influence he wielded in the NSW Labor government to feather his own nest.
(7) Further success for the small Covent Garden theatre came when rising star Eddie Redmayne won best supporting actor for his portrayal of Mark Rothko's put-upon assistant in Red.
(8) Eddie Howe’s team had decent spells of possession but they could not create anything of clearcut note and Petr Cech reached his heavily signposted milestone as the Premier League’s clean-sheet king without needing to make a serious save.
(9) August 11, 2014 The British actor and stand-up star, Eddie Izzard, tweeted: “Robin Williams has died and I am very sad.
(10) In 1993, when he was 28, he won a Sony Gold award for a new radio breakfast show, Eddie Mair Live.
(11) These observations are consistent with an epiblast origin for the avian germ line, and are strikingly similar to those reported for the early mouse embryo using the same antibody (Hahnel & Eddy, 1986).
(12) The British director demands six months of improvisation and filming; according to Eddie Marsan, Malick makes dialogue up on the spot and then starts his camera rolling, whether the actor's ready or not.
(13) "Our strategy is to run these franchises online, but when we have a linear partner we'll make original content that's exclusive to the linear channel in a window," said chief creative officer Eddy Moretti.
(14) He is someone we have followed for some time and believe will fit seamlessly into Eddie and Jason’s plans.
(15) They found that three - The Young Folks, Go See Eddie and Once a Week Won't Kill You - had never been registered to the author, they told Publishers Weekly .
(16) Icac found former Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid and former-energy minister Ian Macdonald acted corruptly when in government and the Director of Public Prosecutions should consider laying criminal charges .
(17) We must put that idea of life and death back in the centre of politics.” • Édouard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy , published by Harvill Secker.
(18) They seem to be due one every game... Eddie Johnson had one or two looks on balls over the top, but Altidore has been kept very, very quiet so far as there's been little urgency to get the ball to him early.
(19) The Scott family’s legal team said on Monday they were readying a civil lawsuit against Slager, the North Charleston police department, police chief Eddie Driggers, and anyone else they deem responsible.
(20) A tip of the hat also to Eddie Howe and Slaven Bilic, whose good work at Bournemouth and West Ham respectively has been rather overshadowed.
Edgy
Definition:
(a.) Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
(a.) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
Example Sentences:
(1) Garfield has a history of making interesting choices and a knack for using his edgy watchfulness to steal scenes from some of the best actors in the business.
(2) With the unprecedented riches offered by next season’s top tier television deal at stake, it proved a slightly strange, decidedly edgy, game.
(3) And his art is always edgy – a bit worrying, getting a bit under your skin.
(4) The softly-spoken but determined champion, born in Bow and raised in Limerick, brought quiet menace and the threat of a dramatic finish; Saunders, the challenger, all energy and edgy aggression, had come for a night of educated boxing.
(5) A taxi driver called a tipoff line after he recognised a group of difficult clients from that morning, unusually edgy about handling their large suitcases.
(6) The result was Doll By Doll, dominated by Leven, whom I described at the time as "a mixture of Van Morrison and a psychopath", but who could mix edgy, brooding rock songs, such as Butcher Boy, with stirring, lyrical Celtic soul, including the exquisite Main Travelled Roads.
(7) "It's more contrived in terms of 'good girl gone bad' or 'I'm so edgy – I'm twerking in this context.'
(8) Fodi’s liberal audience pay to hear career radicals speak about “dangerous” subjects during “edgy” debates, but turn a blind eye to the unethical practices that events such as the Fodi and the Biennale inevitably cover up.
(9) Barclays bankers were engulfed in a culture of "edginess" and had a "winning at all costs" attitude which raised tensions with regulators and damaged its reputation, according to a review into the ethics of the embattled bank.
(10) Or some edgy comic business relating to abortion, or menstruation?
(11) We got a little bit edgy in the second half, that’s probably more down to the situation we find ourselves in.
(12) Capaldi admitted that a little of Malcolm Tucker, his foul-mouthed political aide in satirical series The Thick of It, had crept into his Doctor, meaning he was a little more "edgy, volatile and dangerous".
(13) It surely helped her reputation as much as her life that she was brave, robust, loyal, edgy, and a survivor.
(14) When Scotland got their goal back it could have been a bit edgy, but we responded fantastically and it was very special for me to score two goals for England in Scotland at Celtic Park.” Gordon Strachan admitted his players had been “spooked” by England’s energetic opening as they slipped to only a second defeat in 11 games to douse some of the optimism generated by Friday’s victory over the Republic of Ireland .
(15) "The comics who are more surrealist, abstract, or edgy – that's never going to work on Live at the Apollo," says Perrin.
(16) The influence of the Forest Fringe – the festival's free, even more eccentric wing – could be discerned in the rise of edgy new venues such as Summerhall , the space curated by Battersea Arts Centre .
(17) The US government runs out of borrowing headroom in under nine days time, and investors are now getting more edgy about what happens at one minute to midnight on October 17th .
(18) Their 'hipster' children who have only ever lived through the era of neo-con politics find these environments stultifying and conventional and long for something more edgy, urban and cool-'authentic' places where poor folk live, that make them feel daring and adventurous.
(19) Nor is there any dispute that this is dark and edgy TV.
(20) The old failings were becoming sorely evident and Tottenham fed off the edginess.