Eddy

Definitions: Eddy

Eddy

Noun

1. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).

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

Verb

1. Flow in a circular current, of liquids.

"Eddy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a rich guard", "a blessed guard".

Date "Eddy" was first used: 1455. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Aerospace	In a fluid, any circulation drawing its energy from a flow of much larger scale and brought about by pressure irregularities. (references)
Biographical Satire	EDDY, Mrs., of Boston, Mass., U. S. A., a lady who made millions by telling the world there was no such thing as the toothache, sea-sickness, or hitting your thumb with a hammer. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
Geography	Element of fluid, within a turbulent mass of fluid, which has a certain identity and life history of its own. Source: European Union. (references)
	Rotational movement occurring in flowing water. Source: European Union. (references)
	The rotational and quasi-stationary movement of water in a stream. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A circular movement of water. Eddies may be formed where currents pass obstructions or between two adjacent currents flowing counter to eachother. (references)
Weather	A circular movement of water or air that is formed where currents pass obstructions or between two adjacent currents that are flowing counter to each other. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

In fluid dynamics, an eddy is the swirling of water and the reverse current created when water flows past an obstacle. The moving water creates a space devoid of downstream-flowing water on the downstream side of the object. Water behind the obstacle flows into the void creating a swirl of water on each edge of the obstacle, followed by a short reverse flow of water behind the obstacle flowing upstream, toward the back of the obstacle. This phenomenon is most visible behind large emergent rocks in swift-flowing rivers.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
eddy	English	Eddy current testing	Physics
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Eddy

Synonyms: twist (n), purl (v), swirl (v), whirl (v), whirlpool (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
River	Body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre; fresh, freshet; indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation.
Rotation	Verticity, whir, whirl, eddy, vortex, whirlpool, gurge; countercurrent; Maelstrom, Charybdis; Ixion.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Don't let the excitement spoil your grammar, Eddy. (Ed, Edd n' Eddy; writing credit: Jan Dirchsen; Mikkel Dyrting)
Movie/TV Titles	Poor Pretty Eddy (1973) Eddy (1969) The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) Eddy Live 2000 (2000) Edd n' Eddy Ed (1999)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Eddy Arnold: Pioneer of the Nashville Sound (reference) Large Eddy Simulation for Incompressible Flows (reference) Mary Baker Eddy (reference) The Healer: The Healing Work of Mary Baker Eddy (reference) The Life of Mary Baker Eddy (Twentieth-Century Biographers Series) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Eddy Herrera: En Vivo (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	The Best of Eddy Arnold [RCA] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Whirl; synthesized; tone; circle; eddy; gyrate; gyre; pirouette; pivot; purl; reel; revolve; roll; rotate; swirl; swoosh; turn; turn around; twirl; twist; wheel; whir.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Mary Baker Eddy	Reject hatred without hating.
	Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
	God is mind, and God is infinite; hence all is mind.
	Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.
	To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
	Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
	Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
	Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Metcalf & Eddy proposed a structured payment system to introduce wastewater treatment tariffs into the BMA areas of authority, with the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority acting as collector. (references)
		However, there is hope. A consumer survey conducted by Metcalf & Eddy for the BMA in 1998 found a willingness among residents to pay about 0.55% of their income for wastewater services and the BMA needs from 0.4% to 1.2% of domestic income to cover its costs. (references)
Civil Liberties	Guatemala	Police units from the capital and Puerto Barrios investigated the murder and quickly detained two suspects, Eddy Ramon Garcia Silva and Humberto Estuardo Contreras Salazar. (references)
Economic History	Philippines	These projects are good indicators that the market will definitely continue to recover and gain momentum in 2001. Based on the local preference for imported equipment, U.S. imports should grow 10-12 percent in 2000-2001. The following U.S. developers and engineering firms are major players in this sector: Fluor Daniel, Ogden Yorkshire, Envitech, Bechtel, Brown & Root, Parsons, Metcalf & Eddy, and URS Greiner (Dames & Moore and Woodward Clyde). (references)
Human Rights	Congo	In late January, the Government arrested aide-de-camp Colonel Eddy Kapend and Army General Yav Nawej. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Eddy" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 82.59% of the time. "Eddy" is used about 224 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	82.59%	185	22,646
Noun (singular)	13.39%	30	63,341
Lexical Verb (base form)	2.68%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	1.34%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	224	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Eddy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Eddy	First name Male	10,000	676
Eddy	Last name	7,000	1,718
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

"Eddy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a rich guard", "a blessed guard".

The following table summarizes names related to "Eddy."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Ed	Male	English	Edward
Eddie	Male, Female	English	Edward
Eddy	Male	English	Edward
Edison	Male	English	Edward
Edward	Male	English	N/A
Ewart	Male	English	Edward
Ned	Male	English	Edward
Ted	Male	English	Edward
Teddy	Male	English	Edward
Eetu	Male	Finnish	Edward
Édouard	Male	French	Edward
Eduard	Male	German	Edward
Ekewaka	Male	Hawaiian	Edward
Edvard	Male	Hungarian	Edward
Eadbhárd	Male	Irish	Edward
Edoardo	Male	Italian	Edward
Edward	Male	Polish	N/A
Duarte	Male	Portuguese	Edward
Eduarda	Female	Portuguese	Edward
Eduardo	Male	Portuguese	Edward
Edvard	Male	Russian	Edward
Edvard	Male	Scandinavian	Edward
Eideard	Male	Scottish	Edward
Edvard	Male	Slovene	Edward
Eduardo	Male	Spanish	Edward
Iorwerth	Male	Welsh	Edward
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

1. Eddy, TX
Zip Code(s): 76524
Country: USA

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Expressions: Eddy

Expressions using "Eddy": air eddy ♦ confined eddy ♦ Eddy County ♦ Eddy current ♦ eddy current probe ♦ eddy currents ♦ eddy diffusivity coefficients ♦ eddy flow ♦ eddy flux ♦ Eddy kite ♦ Eddy Merckx ♦ eddy motion ♦ free eddy ♦ Long Eddy ♦ mary baker eddy ♦ Mary Morse Baker Eddy ♦ Pond Eddy ♦ thermal eddy ♦ turbulent eddy ♦ Upper Black Eddy ♦ wind eddy. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Eddy": eddy-current, eddy-like, eddy-shaped.
	Ending with "Eddy": Bruceville-Eddy, non-eddy, warp-eddy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eddy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
ed edd eddy	462
eddy	135
eddy current	104
arnold eddy	102
eddy freddy	89
duane eddy	82
crazy eddy	77
eddy fast	75
eddy merckx	72
eddy mitchell	68
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Eddy

Language		Translations for "Eddy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Vorbullohem, Vorbull (merry go round, swirl, vortex, whirlpool), Valë (frenzy, onrush, roller, wave), Shtjellë (reel, swirl, vortex, whirlpool), Shtëllunget, Shtëllungë (bushy, cloud, fleece, hank, plume, tow), Shakullinë (vortex, whirlwind), Lëvizje Vorbulluese, Dallgë (breaker, water-wave, wave). (various references)

Arabic		‏تيار عكسي, ‏دوامة (gulf, swirl, vortex, whirl, whirlpool), ‏دام (bleeding, bloody, continue, gyrate, last, perpetuate, swirl, wash), ‏دردور (gulf, vortex, votaress, whirl, whirlpool). (various references)

Bulgarian		Обратно �"вижение, �'ъртя Се �' Спирала, �'ъртя Се, �'одовъртеж, �'ихрушка, �'ихрово �"вижение, Извивам Се Като �'ихрушка, Стълб. (various references)

Chinese		� (small river), 漩涡 (Eddies, swirl, VORTEX, Vortices), 漩渦 (swirl), 漩 , 渦 (name of a river, whirlpool), 洄 (whirlpool). (various references)

Czech		Vír (gulf, maelstrom, swirl, vortex, whirl), Vířit (reel, spin, swirl, whir, whirl, whirr), Hemžit Se (abound, crawl, shoal, swarm, teem). (various references)

Danish		stroemhvirvel (eddy-current, vortex), hvirvelstroem (eddy current, eddy currents, vortex, whirlpool), hvirvel (burble, button, control lever, eddy-current, handle, key, swirl, turbulent eddy, vortex). (various references)

Dutch		wervel (button, swirl, turbulent eddy, vertebra, vortex), neer (eddy-current), draaikolk (vortex, whirlpool). (various references)

Farsi		چرخ زدن (Gyrate, Pirouette), گرداب کوچک , جریان مخالف . (various references)

Finnish		pyörre (swirl, swirling, turbulent eddy, vortex, whirl, whirlpool). (various references)

French		Tourbillon, Remous. (various references)

German		Wirbel (burble, catch, cowlick, crown, eddies, frenzy, peg, pirouette, roll, squish, swirl, swirling, swivel, to-do, turmoil, vertebra, vertebrae, vortex, vortices, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whorl), Strudel (maelstrom, strudel, swirl, vortex, whirl, whirlpool, whirlpools). (various references)

Greek		δίνη (maelstrom, swirl, vortex, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind). (various references)

Hebrew		ּ�"תערבל. (various references)

Hungarian		Forgatag (boil, drift, maelstrom, swirl, vortex, whirl, whirlabout, whirligig). (various references)

Indonesian		pusaran air (whirlpool), berpusing. (various references)

Italian		Vortice (eddy-current, gulf, maelstrom, swirl, vortex, whirl, whirlpool, whirlpools, whirlwind), Gorgo (eddy-current, maelstrom, plunge pool, plunge pool action, pothole, scour, scour basin, whirlpool). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		渦巻き (coil, whirlpool), 渦巻 (coil, whirlpool). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		うずまき (coil, whirlpool). (various references)

Manx		eeirey (vortex, vortex on water). (various references)

Norwegian		evje, virvel. (various references)

Pig Latin		eddyay.(various references)

Portuguese		Estudo Dos Solos (pedometer), Vento (blast, breeze, drift, wind), vórtice turbulento (turbulent eddy), Turbilhão (burble, maelstrom, swirl, turmoil, vortex, whirl, whirlpool, windage), Redemoinho (maelstrom, rip, swirl, vortex, whirl, whirlpool). (various references)

Romanian		Volburã (gulf, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind), Vârtej (backwash, bent, bustle, giddiness, gulf, gyration, rotation, swirl, twirl, vortex, whirl, wind spout), Vâltoare (vortex, whirlpool), Se Roti (move, reel, rotate, spin, whirl), Se Învolbura, Se Învârteji, Clocoti (boil, bubble, churn, resound, ring, roar, seethe, surge, whirl), Clocot (agitation, ebullition, excitement, whirl), Bulboanã (vortex, whirlpool). (various references)

Russian		Облако, Порыв, Кружиться �' �'одовороте, Клубиться, Клуб �"ыма, Маленький �'одоворот, �'одоворот, �'ихрь, �'ихревое �"вижение. (various references)

Scottish		cuairt (circuit, tour, trip, whirl). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrtlog (maelstrom, vortex, whirl, whirlpool), vrteti se (swim, wriggle). (various references)

Spanish		remolino (boil, cowlick, Eddy wind, maelstrom, swirl, swirling, turbulent eddy, vortex, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind). (various references)

Swedish		virvel (gulf, gyre, swirl, turbulent eddy, vortex, whirl, whirligig, whirlwind, whorl), Virvla (gyre, swirl, whirl). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้หมุนวน, หมุนวน. (various references)

Turkish		Hortum (cyclone, elephant's trunk, hose, hose pipe, proboscis, snout, tornado, twister, water hose, whirlwind), Girdap (gulf, purl, suck, swirl, twist, vortex, whirlpool), Fırıl Fırıl Dönmek (reel, sleep, spin, spin round, swirl, twirl, whirl, whirl about, whirl round), Anafor Yapmak, Anafor (gulf, suck, swirl, vortex, whirlpool). (various references)

Ukranian		Крутитися У �'ирі, Коловорот, Клубочитися, Клуби, Завихрятися, �'ир (Buller), �'ихор. (various references)

Vietnamese		xoáy nước gió lốc khói cuộn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Eddy

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vertice, verticem, vertices, verticibus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Eddy

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Eddy": eddying. (additional references)
	Words ending with "Eddy": teddy. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Eddy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Addey, Aeddi, dexy, ecd, eday, edde, eddey, eddie, eddin, eddys, edey, edi, edie, edip, ediq, edm, edr, edt, edtv, edu, Edv, edx, edy, Ehdc, emdy, Epdd, feddy, heddy, Iddy, kedy, meddy, Meddyg, oddi, oddy, ody, pedy, reddy, seddy, Udy, zedy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Eddy"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Eddy" (pronounced e"dē)
3	e" d ē	already, Bready, heady, ready, steady, teddy, unsteady.
2	-d ē	antibody, anybody, attendee, bandy, bawdy, beady, Biddy, birdie, bloody, body, brandy, broody, buddy, Burgundy, caddy, candy, cloudy, comedy, cruddy, cuddy, custody, daddy, Dandy, deedy, disembody, dowdy, Duddy, embody, everybody, foolhardy, Garibaldi, gaudy, giddy, glissandi, goodie, Goody, granddaddy, greedy, handy, Hardy, howdy, jeopardy, kiddie, kiddy, lady, landlady, Lindy, malady, melody, Midi, Modi, moldy, Moody, mouldy, muddy, needy, nerdy, nobody, oldie, Paddy, Pardee, pardi, Pardy, parody, perfidy, prosody, raggedy, Randy, reedy, remedy, rhapsody, roadie, rowdy, ruddy, Sandy, seedy, shady, shandy, shoddy, somebody, speedy, study, sturdy, subsidy, tardy, thirty, tidy, tragedy, trendy, tweedy, understudy, untidy, unwieldy, waddie, Waddy, weedy, windy, Woodie, Woody, wordy, yesterday.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Eddy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: dyed.
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-y"
	-1 letter: dey, dye.
	-2 letters: de, ed, ye.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-y"
	+1 letter: deedy, dyked, teddy.
	+2 letters: daybed, deadly, drayed, dynode, redyed, undyed, yarded, yodled.
	+3 letters: addedly, datedly, daybeds, dayside, dazedly, deadeye, decayed, decoyed, delayed, diddley, doddery, dodgery, dramedy, dryades, dyeweed, dyewood, dynodes, eddying, fadedly, hydride, jadedly, lyddite, yielded, yodeled.
	+4 letters: aldehyde, bendayed, bladdery, cyanided, daydream, daysides, deadeyes, deeryard, defrayed, deployed, deucedly, dialysed, dialyzed, diddleys, dismayed, disyoked, doggedly, domesday, drudgery, dyeweeds, dyewoods, hiddenly, hoydened, hydrated, hydrides, lyddites, overdyed, peddlery, saddlery, shuddery, skydived, soddenly, suddenly, vandyked, yodelled.
	+5 letters: advisedly, aldehydes, aldehydic, anhydride, cycadeoid, daydreams, daydreamt, daytrader, deacidify, decadency, decidedly, decrypted, deeryards, dehydrate, destroyed, devotedly, disembody, disobeyed, displayed, dividedly, domesdays, dromedary, dynamited, guardedly, hendiadys, holidayed, hydathode, hydrazide, hydroxide, joyridden, pyramided, readymade, studiedly, subduedly, underbody.
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