Crossword clues for eddies
eddies
- Turning points
- Whirling waters
- Current events?
- Swirling currents
- Turbulence cause
- Wee whirlpools
- Vedder and Bauer
- Sea swirls
- Murphy and Murray
- Dust devils
- Circular currents
- Watery swirls
- Water movements
- River countercurrents
- Money and whirlpools?
- Maritime vortices
- Haskell and Murphy
- Canoeing concerns
- Swirls
- Vortexes
- Whirling currents
- Whirlpools for Arcaro?
- Whirls
- Fluid dynamics phenomena
- Moves like a whirlpool
- Water whirls
- Small whirlpools
- Purls or whirls
- Cantor and Murphy
- Small whirls
- Fisher and Foy
- Swirls, whirlpools
- Senior journalist perishes in whirlpools
- Did see (anag) — whirlpools
- They twirl in topless underwear
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eddy \Ed"dy\ ([e^]d"d[y^]), n.; pl. Eddies ([e^]d"d[i^]z). [Prob. fr. Icel. i[eth]a; cf. Icel. pref. i[eth]- back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-.]
A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
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A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.
And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
--Dryden.Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.
--Addison.Note: Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
n. (eddy English)
Usage examples of "eddies".
These eddies have played havoc with our technologies, hindering some, eliminating others.
I expect a full map of the subspace eddies and a tactical analysis of how best to secure the planet given the limitations presented by those eddies by the time the fleet arrives.
We have begun to find ways to make our weapons and other tools work properly amidst the eddies, and this is not intelligence we will share with our enemies.
Captain Huss’s three birds-of-prey were going through the subspace eddies, apparently trying to ferret out the mines, and General Talak was hanging back in reserve.
His hand weapon would no more fire within the subspace eddies than it would on the planet—or the ship’s own disruptor cannons and arrays would.
Kornan was able to instruct the computer to backtrack their course, and he saw that the mine explosion had only minutely affected their course, but Leskit had been so carefully navigating the eddies that even the slightest course change would send them careening into the deadly tears in space.
The eddies altered the very fabric of space around them, causing gravitic shifts that necessitated constant corrections just to maintain course.
In the case of the latter, Leskit’s crazed maneuvering had put half her staff into paroxysms, and Kornan’s attempt to improve things by moving them closer to those subspace eddies only made the problem worse.
Among the many deleterious effects of the subspace eddies in the space around this world were that the stars were blocked from view, so the sky provided no illumination at night.
If we had not been restricted by the subspace eddies, we never would have learned the true nature of your people.
He was fairly sure he had mapped out all the subspace eddies, and now he had conscripted Leskit to aid him in working out ways to navigate them.
You are to complete the mapping of the subspace eddies and create battle plans for fighting within them.
However remiss Eddies might have been in his duties, it was plain bad luck to mess up in front of the captain on the day they were receiving a Tarn delegate.
She had been looking at Eddies as he activated the beam and now, in a flash, two hundred years had been transcended.
Anyhow, I want to check in with Eddies and run another diagnostic on the transporter.