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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: EDDY (0.00879 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to EDDY.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: eddy
berpusing, pusaran air
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Eddy
Eddy
n 1: founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910) [syn:
Mary Baker Eddy
,
Mary Morse Baker Eddy]
2: a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the
current of a fluid doubles back on itself [syn:
twist]
v : flow in a circular current, of liquids [syn:
purl,
whirlpool,
swirl,
whirl]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Eddy
Eddy
\Ed"dy\ ([e^]d"d[y^]), n.; pl.
Eddies ([e^]d"d[i^]z).
[Prob. fr. Icel. i[eth]a; cf. Icel. pref. i[eth]- back, AS.
ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-.]
1. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction
contrary to the main current.
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2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction;
a whirlpool.
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And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. --Dryden.
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Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.
--Addison.
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Note: Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. --Dryden.
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Eddy
\Ed"dy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Eddied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Eddying.]
To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.
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Eddying round and round they sink. --Wordsworth.
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Eddy
\Ed"dy\, v. t.
To collect as into an eddy. [R.]
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The circling mountains eddy in
From the bare wild the dissipated storm. --Thomson.
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