Eddy vs. Swirl

Eddynoun

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

Swirlverb

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

‘I swirled my brush around in the paint.’;

Eddynoun

A circular current; a whirlpool.

Swirlverb

To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl.

Eddyverb

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

Swirlverb

(figuratively) to circulate

Eddynoun

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

Swirlnoun

A whirling eddy.

Eddynoun

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

‘And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.’; ‘Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.’;

Swirlnoun

A twist or coil of something.

Eddyverb

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

‘Eddying round and round they sink.’;

Swirlnoun

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

Eddyverb

To collect as into an eddy.

‘The circling mountains eddy inFrom the bare wild the dissipated storm.’;

Swirlverb

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

Eddynoun

founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910)

Swirlnoun

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

Eddynoun

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

Swirlnoun

the shape of something rotating rapidly

Eddyverb

flow in a circular current, of liquids

Swirlverb

turn in a twisting or spinning motion;

‘The leaves swirled in the autumn wind’;

Eddynoun

a circular movement of water causing a small whirlpool

‘eddies of controversy swirled around his theories’; ‘the current was forming foam-lipped eddies along the bank’;

Swirlverb

flow in a circular current, of liquids

Eddynoun

a circular movement of wind, fog, or smoke

‘an eddy of chill air swirled into the carriage’;

Eddyverb

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

‘the mists from the river eddied round the banks’;