What's the difference between eddy and maelstrom?

Eddy


Definition:

  • (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.

Maelstrom


Definition:

  • (n.) A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway.
  • (n.) Also Fig. ; as, a maelstrom of vice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The theory is sound, but the problems arise when you face up to the challenge in individual trusts, where in many cases the storage system for patient records consists of rooms of filing cabinets rather than a sophisticated IT system capable of coping with a fast-growing maelstrom of digital information.
  • (2) In Paris, where he lived from 1961 until 1963, he became acquainted with the proponents of négritude, the belief in a common black identity, though rejected its exoticism, feeling that South Africa's urban maelstrom left it looking redundant.
  • (3) The maelstrom began only a few minutes into the televised debate at Hofstra University, on Long Island, on Wednesday night, when McCain seized on an impromptu encounter between Obama and a resident in Holland, Ohio, last weekend.
  • (4) • Sign up to play our great Fantasy Football game • Stats centre: Get the lowdown on every player • The latest team-by-team news, features and more • Follow the Guardian's Fans' Network now Amid a maelstrom of emotion and patriotic fervour, the coach, Carlos Alberto Parreira, must steer his side to victory against a Uruguay team who looked solid in their opening match against France.
  • (5) He expressed sympathy for the street protesters – whom he did not join – but gave little sign of a man entering a political maelstrom in search of victory.
  • (6) But in this maelstrom of comment, passion was buried beneath a constant layer of abuse.
  • (7) Britain made the modern world in the sense that the forces it helped to originate – technology, economic organisation and science – formed a maelstrom that is still overwhelming millions of lives.
  • (8) Saudi will not pass through this maelstrom.” In Shia majority Iraq, Haidar al-Abadi, the prime minister, expressed “intense shock” at the execution, which he said would “lead to nothing but more destruction”.
  • (9) They also don't get bailed out when the value of their home suddenly plummets, or when they lose their job or retirement funds in an economic maelstrom they did not cause.
  • (10) Equally, nobody would gaily sling their child into the maelstrom of sexual objectification and leave them to eat or be eaten.
  • (11) It is not hard for us to see how Einstein's work – his first paper on special relativity was submitted to a journal in 1905 – fits into the maelstrom of change at the start of the 20th century.
  • (12) You always try to support the younger players and help them to improve.” Pochettino’s rhetoric before the north London derby, though, was heavier on the theme of confrontation and he has the knowledge of how to cope in the maelstrom.
  • (13) In the university sector, we like to scare each other with stories of how we were right there in the maelstrom of Thatcher's cuts.
  • (14) He said while he thought there “would be some controversy” over the school issues, he did not expect the maelstrom of dissent it set off, or the national media attention it garnered.
  • (15) If that maelstrom of confusion is to be avoided, diagnoses by histopathologists must be made in the language of clinical medicine.
  • (16) But the maelstrom they engendered continued for many decades and ultimately transformed the nature of the modern state as we know it.
  • (17) The region has been a maelstrom of religious strife for decades with militant Deobandi groups such as the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi waging a bloody sectarian campaign against the Shia minority even as hardline seminaries proliferated.
  • (18) Took a mental step back to try to work out what was upsetting, realising I had been bargaining with God in my half-sleep and in a maelstrom of conflicting emotion.
  • (19) But in the maelstrom of the past few days he also appears to have recognised that he will have to sacrifice himself for the sake of Greece moving forward.
  • (20) Still reeling from the crushing defeat at the ballot box in May, we rushed headlong into the most divisive leadership election in living memory and, from there, straight into a maelstrom of in-fighting, factionalism and acrimony.

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