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# eddy

«eddy» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small whirlpool, where water goes round and round…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural eddies); verb (eddy, eddies, eddied, eddying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An eddy is a small whirlpool, where water goes round and round against the main flow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eddy/#m1)

2) To eddy is to swirl round in circles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eddy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a stream or river where leaves and branches are carried round and round

### examples

- Leaves spun in an eddy by the bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eddy/#x1)
- The water eddied around the rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eddy/#x2)
- A little eddy carried the boat round in a circle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eddy/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «eddy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eddy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.