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. [1913 Webster] 2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. [1913 Webster] And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Note: Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Eddying round and round they sink. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] Eddy \Ed"dy\, v. t. To collect as into an eddy. [R.] [1913 Webster] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]