{ "eddy":{ "type":[ "biographical name", "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": something moving similarly":[], ": a contrary or circular current (as of thought or policy)":[], "Mary (Morse) 1821\u20131910 n\u00e9e Baker American founder of the Christian Science Church":[], ": to cause to move in an eddy":[], ": to move in an eddy or in the manner of an eddy":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8e-d\u0113" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Noun", "The boat was caught in a powerful eddy .", "Verb", "The wind gusted and eddied around us.", "The waves swirled and eddied against the pier.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Except instead of air, this spinning bubble (called an eddy ) is filled with warm water that can make hurricanes more dangerous, according to Nick Shay, professor of oceanography at the University of Miami. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 18 May 2022", "For the weekend, cooling onshore winds will create a coastal eddy , spinning low clouds and fog inland during nights and mornings in a typical seasonal pattern, with temperatures ranging from the high 60s to mid-70s along the coast. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 June 2022", "The loop current is warm-core eddy that meanders north through of the Florida Straits and Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula. \u2014 Matthew Cappucci And Jason Samenow, Anchorage Daily News , 24 May 2022", "The eddy that fueled Hurricane Ida in 2021 was over 86 F (30 C) at the surface and had heat down to about 590 feet (180 meters). \u2014 Nick Shay, The Conversation , 18 May 2022", "Shay said forecasters are worried that present conditions in the Gulf could lead to an eddy early this season, similar to one seen in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina formed. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 18 May 2022", "These veering winds form a counterclockwise eddy circulation near Catalina Island. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 May 2022", "Salmon in greenish-brown spawning colors rest in an eddy downstream, waiting for just the right time to scamper up the creek and complete their journey. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 29 Apr. 2022", "For Riverside Heading out for a mellow float with dreams of a beach picnic next to some remote eddy ", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "As a result, other stray digital ephemera are sucked into this eddying body\u2014fashion photos of NBA baller Chris Paul, a random clip of someone\u2019s dad\u2014all of them in conversation with one another. \u2014 Jason Parham, Wired , 14 Feb. 2020", "In the same way that eddies in a stream alter downstream currents, Elgindi\u2019s work itself prompted a new round of mathematical discovery. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 13 Jan. 2020", "The toilets at home were white and eddied the business away. \u2014 Vanessa Martir, Longreads , 27 Nov. 2019", "Even as rhymes ricochet about, the whole seems to eddy from the walls into the room\u2019s center. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 31 Oct. 2019", "The dancers\u2019 bodies seem always a-curve, torsos and arms frequently describing circles in the air, or whole bodies eddying down and pooling out into soft rolls on the floor. \u2014 Janine Parker, BostonGlobe.com , 5 July 2019", "The generous space between them is insurance that a fire in one is less likely to spread to another, and the arrangement ensures there won\u2019t be a constricted area where the wind might eddy in a blizzard and pile snow against a tent entrance. \u2014 Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine , 10 Jan. 2019", "This is all great, but no one has ever measured the way that eddies flux heat or CO2. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 11 Apr. 2013", "Below, a meadow of soft gold wild grass sways in the wind like the bay\u2019s eddying waters. \u2014 Hamish Bowles, Vogue , 15 Aug. 2018" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English (Scots) ydy , probably from Old Norse itha":"Noun" }, "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun", "1810, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-192948" }, "eddy current":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": an electric current induced by an alternating magnetic field":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "These are usually inspected using industrial borescopes, eddy current and/or ultrasound techniques to make a recommendation whether the gearboxes need to be taken down for repair or can continue in use. \u2014 Arungalai Anbarasu, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021", "Ventricular fibrillation is like eddy currents of electricity in the heart, which form where a wave of electrical impulses can\u2019t pass through scar tissue. \u2014 Elizabeth Cooney, STAT , 6 Apr. 2020", "From now through March is prime time in this area for a 5-pound smallmouth. The can\u2019t miss bait is a live shad about 4 inches long, but plenty are also caught on crankbaits, jerkbaits and swimbaits worked in the eddies current breaks. \u2014 Frank Sargeant, al , 10 Jan. 2020", "Magnets and eddy current machines pull out aluminum and steel cans, sending them to the appropriate bins to be flattened, baled together and sold. \u2014 Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al.com , 17 June 2019", "After the 2016 incident, Southwest began conducting eddy current inspections, a test similar to ultrasonic inspections, on planes brought into the shop. \u2014 Jason Laughlin, Philly.com , 3 May 2018", "Molten minerals tend to be better conductors, which means stronger eddy currents . \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 27 Oct. 2017" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1886, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194603" }, "eddy-current brake":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a speed-control dynamometer in which the resistance to rotation is produced by eddy currents generated by the relative rotation of copper disks and magnets : an electromagnetic brake \u2014 compare magnetic damping":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-005510" }, "eddy-current loss":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": loss of energy (as in electrical machinery or transformers) due to eddy currents in cores or conductors \u2014 compare core loss":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-030520" }, "eddy chamber":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a chamber where a fluid is caused to whirl in eddies":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-045436" }, "Eddy":{ "type":[ "biographical name", "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": something moving similarly":[], ": a contrary or circular current (as of thought or policy)":[], "Mary (Morse) 1821\u20131910 n\u00e9e Baker American founder of the Christian Science Church":[], ": to cause to move in an eddy":[], ": to move in an eddy or in the manner of an eddy":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8e-d\u0113" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Noun", "The boat was caught in a powerful eddy .", "Verb", "The wind gusted and eddied around us.", "The waves swirled and eddied against the pier.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Except instead of air, this spinning bubble (called an eddy ) is filled with warm water that can make hurricanes more dangerous, according to Nick Shay, professor of oceanography at the University of Miami. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 18 May 2022", "For the weekend, cooling onshore winds will create a coastal eddy , spinning low clouds and fog inland during nights and mornings in a typical seasonal pattern, with temperatures ranging from the high 60s to mid-70s along the coast. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 June 2022", "The loop current is warm-core eddy that meanders north through of the Florida Straits and Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula. \u2014 Matthew Cappucci And Jason Samenow, Anchorage Daily News , 24 May 2022", "The eddy that fueled Hurricane Ida in 2021 was over 86 F (30 C) at the surface and had heat down to about 590 feet (180 meters). \u2014 Nick Shay, The Conversation , 18 May 2022", "Shay said forecasters are worried that present conditions in the Gulf could lead to an eddy early this season, similar to one seen in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina formed. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 18 May 2022", "These veering winds form a counterclockwise eddy circulation near Catalina Island. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 May 2022", "Salmon in greenish-brown spawning colors rest in an eddy downstream, waiting for just the right time to scamper up the creek and complete their journey. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 29 Apr. 2022", "For Riverside Heading out for a mellow float with dreams of a beach picnic next to some remote eddy ", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "As a result, other stray digital ephemera are sucked into this eddying body\u2014fashion photos of NBA baller Chris Paul, a random clip of someone\u2019s dad\u2014all of them in conversation with one another. \u2014 Jason Parham, Wired , 14 Feb. 2020", "In the same way that eddies in a stream alter downstream currents, Elgindi\u2019s work itself prompted a new round of mathematical discovery. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 13 Jan. 2020", "The toilets at home were white and eddied the business away. \u2014 Vanessa Martir, Longreads , 27 Nov. 2019", "Even as rhymes ricochet about, the whole seems to eddy from the walls into the room\u2019s center. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 31 Oct. 2019", "The dancers\u2019 bodies seem always a-curve, torsos and arms frequently describing circles in the air, or whole bodies eddying down and pooling out into soft rolls on the floor. \u2014 Janine Parker, BostonGlobe.com , 5 July 2019", "The generous space between them is insurance that a fire in one is less likely to spread to another, and the arrangement ensures there won\u2019t be a constricted area where the wind might eddy in a blizzard and pile snow against a tent entrance. \u2014 Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine , 10 Jan. 2019", "This is all great, but no one has ever measured the way that eddies flux heat or CO2. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 11 Apr. 2013", "Below, a meadow of soft gold wild grass sways in the wind like the bay\u2019s eddying waters. \u2014 Hamish Bowles, Vogue , 15 Aug. 2018" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English (Scots) ydy , probably from Old Norse itha":"Noun" }, "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun", "1810, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-064712" }, "eddyroot":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": taro":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "by folk etymology from eddo + root":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071502" }, "eddo":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": taro":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8e(\u02cc)d\u014d" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "of African origin; 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