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词汇 eddying
释义 eddying
present participle ofeddy
eddy
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈed.i/ us /ˈed.i/
If water, wind, smoke, etc. eddies, it moves fast in a circle: (水、风、烟等)起漩涡,旋转
The water eddied around in a whirlpool.水流形成了一个漩涡。
Synonyms
swirl
whirl
[ + adv/prep ]
If a large group of people eddies somewhere, the people go there together while constantly moving around within their group:
He joined the flood of students eddying toward the second-floor lockers.
She watched the small groups of protesters eddy across the courtyard.
[ + adv/prep ]
to come and go in large quantities, without becoming firmly fixed:
He is adept at placing Einstein in the stream of ideas and theories that eddied about in the intellectual currents of the day.
But what is all this stuff that eddies in your head all the time?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Movement of liquids
backsplash
be dripping with somethingidiom
brim
brim over
brim with something
drool
funnel
leakage
pour
pour-over
reinject
reinjection
respray
ripple
spate
staunch
stem
swash
swill
swirl

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Revolving, rotating and spinning
Temporary

Examples of eddying


eddying

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


It's a piece of dizzying choral virtuosity, sometimes clearing into crystalline diatonic transparency but more often eddying into swirls of dissonant polyphony.
It was suggested that part of this energy loss occurred near the lower edge of the barrier where an eddying motion with separation was observed.
We have clearly shown that if individual eddying motions are to be studied, radial rather than axial velocity signals must be used, especially in the mixing region.
By the time train 48 arrived there with its triple load of passengers, eddying smoke was visible in the tunnel ahead.
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Wikipedia

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Unlike particulate packings, no shear forces or eddying effects are apparent in monolith columns.
From
Wikipedia

This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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