Eddy vs. Swirl — What's the Difference?

A circular movement of water causing a small whirlpool

To move with a twisting or whirling motion; eddy.

(of water, air, or smoke) move in a circular way

To be dizzy or disoriented.

A current, as of water or air, moving contrary to the direction of the main current, especially in a circular motion.

To be arranged in a spiral, whorl, or twist.

A drift or tendency that is counter to or separate from a main current, as of opinion, tradition, or history.

To cause to move with a twisting or whirling motion

To move in or as if in an eddy or eddies

To form into or arrange in a spiral, whorl, or twist.

A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.

A whirling or eddying motion or mass

A circular current; a whirlpool.

Something, such as a curl of hair, that coils, twists, or whirls.

(slang) A marijuana edible.

Whirling confusion or disorder

(intransitive) To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.

(ambitransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy.

A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl.

A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.

(figuratively) To circulate.

To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.

To mingle interracially.

To collect as into an eddy.

A whirling eddy.

Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910)

A twist or coil of something.

A miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself

(fishing) The upward rushing of a fish through the water to take the bait.

Flow in a circular current, of liquids

Interracial mingling e.g. dating, sex, marriage, etc..

To whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy.

A whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl.

The shape of something rotating rapidly

Turn in a twisting or spinning motion;

Flow in a circular current, of liquids