English-Thai Dictionary

eddy

N กระแส วน (ของ น้ำ หรือ อากาศ  swirl whirl whirlpool kra-sae-won

 

eddy

VI หมุน วน  mun-won

 

eddy

VT ทำให้ หมุน วน  tam-hai-mun-won

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EDDY

n.[I find this word in no other language. It is usually considered as a compound of Sax. ed, backward, and ea, water. ] 1. A current of water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main stream. Thus a point of land extending into a river, checks the water near the shore, and turns it back or gives it a circular course. The word is applied also to the air or wind moving in a circular direction.
2. A whirlpool; a current of water or air in a circular direction.
And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.

 

EDDY

v.i.To move circularly, or as an eddy.

 

EDDY

a.Whirling; moving circularly.

 

EDDY-WATER

n.Among seamen, the water which falls back on the rudder of a ship under sail, called dead-water.

 

EDDY-WIND

n.The wind returned or beat back from a sail, a mountain or any thing that hinders its passage.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EDDY

Ed "dy, n.; pl. Eddies. Etym: [Prob. fr. Icel. i; cf. Icel. pref. i 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.

 

2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden. Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. Addison.

 

Note: Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden.

 

EDDY

Ed "dy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Eddied; p. pr. & vb. n. Eddying.]

 

Defn: To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth.

 

EDDY

EDDY Ed "dy, v. t.

 

Defn: To collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.

 

EDDY CURRENT

EDDY CURRENT Ed "dy cur "rent. (Elec.)

 

Defn: An induced electric current circulating wholly within a mass of metal; -- called also Foucault current.

 

EDDY KITE

Ed "dy kite. Called also Malay kite. [After William A. Eddy, American kite expert. ]

 

Defn: A quadrilateral, tailless kite, with convex surfaces exposed to the wind. This kite was extensively used by Eddy in his famous meteorological experiments. It is now generally superseded by the box kite.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

eddy

ed dy |ˈedē ˈɛdi | ▶noun ( pl. eddies ) a circular movement of water, counter to a main current, causing a small whirlpool. • a movement of wind, fog, or smoke resembling this. ▶verb ( eddies, eddying, eddied ) [ no obj. ] (of water, air, or smoke ) move in a circular way: the mists from the river eddied around the banks. ORIGIN late Middle English: probably from the Germanic base of the Old English prefix ed- ‘again, back. ’

 

Eddy, Mary Baker

Ed dy, Mary Baker |ˈedē ˈɛdi | (1821 –1910 ), US religious leader; founder of the Christian Science movement. Long a victim of various ailments, she believed herself cured by a faith healer, Phineas Quimby (1802 –1866 ), and later evolved her own system of spiritual healing.

 

eddy current

ed dy cur rent ▶noun a localized electric current induced in a conductor by a varying magnetic field.

 

Eddystone Rocks

Eddystone Rocks |ˈɛdɪstən | a rocky reef off the coast of Cornwall, 22 km (14 miles ) SW of Plymouth. The reef was the site of the earliest lighthouse (1699 ) built on rocks fully exposed to the sea.

 

Oxford Dictionary

eddy

eddy |ˈɛdi | ▶noun ( pl. eddies ) a circular movement of water causing a small whirlpool. • a circular movement of wind, fog, or smoke. ▶verb ( eddies, eddying, eddied ) [ no obj., with adverbial of direction ] (of water, air, or smoke ) move in a circular way: the mists from the river eddied round the banks. ORIGIN late Middle English: probably from the Germanic base of the Old English prefix ed- ‘again, back ’.

 

Eddy, Mary Baker

Eddy |ˈɛdi | (1821 –1910 ), American religious leader and founder of the Christian Science movement. Long a victim to various ailments, she believed herself cured by a faith healer, Phineas Quimby, and later evolved her own system of spiritual healing.

 

eddy current

eddy cur |rent ▶noun a localized electric current induced in a conductor by a varying magnetic field.

 

Eddystone Rocks

Eddystone Rocks |ˈɛdɪstən | a rocky reef off the coast of Cornwall, 22 km (14 miles ) SW of Plymouth. The reef was the site of the earliest lighthouse (1699 ) built on rocks fully exposed to the sea.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

eddy

eddy noun small eddies at the river's edge: swirl, whirlpool, vortex, maelstrom. ▶verb cold air eddied around her: swirl, whirl, spiral, wind, circulate, twist; flow, ripple, stream, surge, billow.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

eddy

eddy noun the river was smooth apart from the small eddies at the edge: swirl, whirlpool, vortex, maelstrom; countercurrent, counterflow; N. Amer. informal suckhole; literary Charybdis. ▶verb cold air eddied around her: swirl, whirl, spiral, wind, churn, swish, circulate, revolve, spin, twist; flow, ripple, stream, surge, seethe, billow, foam, froth, boil, ferment.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

eddy

ed dy /édi /名詞 複 eddies C (水 風 ほこりなどの )渦 （うず ）, 渦巻き .動詞 eddies ; eddied ; ～ing 自動詞 ｟文 ｠〈水 風 ほこりなどが 〉渦巻く ; 〈群集などが 〉乱雑に動く .