(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.
Whirlpool
Definition:
(n.) An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like.
(n.) A sea monster of the whale kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other hand, whirlpool-like, multilayer membranous structures, similar to the mesosomes of gram-negative bacteria, were sometimes seen in the rickettsial cells.
(2) mPA-medium B gave good recovery of both vital and chlorine-injured P. aeruginosa and selectivity was greater than 90% when analysing whirlpool samples.
(3) An evaluation of the wound-healing and disinfectant activities of chloramine-T (Chlorazene) used in hydrotherapy whirlpools was studied in a guinea pig cutaneous wound model.
(4) A private sauna, whirlpool and dancefloor are also available.
(5) Then I enjoy a honey massage looking out at the mountains, and dips in a whirlpool and a mineral pool.
(6) Aerobic plate counts were higher, and staphylococci and Pseudomonas aeruginosa occurred more often in whirlpools than in swimming pools.
(7) Folliculitis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been increasing due to the popularity of hot tubs, swimming pools, and whirlpools.
(8) Duration of whirlpool-spa use was an important determinant of risk for Pseudomonas dermatitis in this outbreak.
(9) The path follows the course of the river back to the roaring whirlpool – but between these forces of nature, it offers tranquility, surrounded not just by the forests but by hundreds of wildlife species, from rare flowers to abundant salamanders and peregrine falcons.
(10) The sonographic "whirlpool" pattern of the superior mesenteric vein and mesentery around the superior mesenteric artery was detected in 15 of the 18 patients with midgut volvulus, and was best seen using Doppler color.
(11) Effects of immersion time, water temperature, and three whirlpool treatment techniques on the reduction of bacterial load on the plantar surface of feet were examined.
(12) Mycobacteria were frequently detected in all types of samples, the numbers in whirlpools on the average being about ten times higher than those in swimming-pools and tap water.
(13) Published reports to date of outbreaks of Pseudomonas folliculitis associated with the use of whirlpools, hot tubs, swimming pools, etc., were reviewed.
(14) L micdadei was also isolated, along with host amoebae, from the whirlpool filter.
(15) Pseudomonas aeruginosa was isolated from seven commercial and two residential whirlpools that were treated with halogens.
(16) The importance of following directions for the installation of whirlpool-spas and regulations for their operation and control is strictly stressed.
(17) The presence of L. pneumophila and amoebae in whirlpool waters (42%) presents a risk for man.
(18) Hunt, a gifted and ambitious politician, is stuck between the rock-like Scylla of industry lobbyists and the Charybdis whirlpool of public opinion, which now supports sugar regulation.
(19) A generalized pruritic pustular rash was reported by 32 of 61 (53%) persons who had used the swimming pool and whirlpool at a Minnesota motel in March 1975.
(20) The whirlpool configuration of the infarct reflects the special anatomy of the intramural coronary arteries in the mice.