单词 | eddying |
释义 | eddyingn. The action of eddy v.: moving in circles, whirling. In quots. transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] > swirling or eddying eddying1817 swirling1825 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 220 An eddying instead of progression of thought. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Ode to Memory iii, in Poems 60 The eddying of her garments caught from thee The light of thy great presence. 1886 Athenæum 10 July 39/1 The twistings and eddyings of the political current. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). eddyingadj. Moving in eddies; full of eddies. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > swirling or eddying pirling1581 eddying1837 swirling1849 swirly1912 1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. ix. 127 The eddying wind has kept them [the roofs] bare at the bleak corners. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. v. 158 From Lycia where the eddying Xanthus runs. 1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. i. 16 The eddying vapours..had been mingling..in endless ways. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1817adj.1837 |
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