(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.
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.