eddy

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɛd.i/    美 /ˈɛd.i/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
    — In the bow old Dobbs fought the stream cunningly, twisting the nose into eddies and backwaters, taking advantage when he could of set of current, and when he could not, paddling doggedly, not so powerfully, perhaps, as his partner, but with equal steadiness.
  2. A marijuana edible. slang
    — I never really was into weed until recently. On my "Chrissy Chaos" podcast on Patreon, I do a segment every Friday called the "Chris and Eddy Show" 'cause I call edibles "eddys,' so I take an eddy and I do a show.
  3. A circular current; a whirlpool.
    — And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
动词 v.
  1. To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle. intransitive
    — He waded out, the stream eddying around his legs.

词形变化

eddies plural eddies present,singular,third-person eddying participle,present eddied participle,past eddied past eddies plural eddys plural

词汇关系

衍生词
eddy current eddy kinetic energy eddyline eddy root Mediterranean eddy
相关词
countercurrent dust devil stream pool

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *éti
Proto-Germanic *idi-
Proto-West Germanic *id-
Old English ed-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂
Proto-Germanic *ahwō
Proto-West Germanic *ahu
Old English ēa
Old English edēa
Middle English eddy
English eddy
From Middle English eddy, from Old English edēa, from ed- (“turning, back, reverse”) + ēa (“water”), equivalent to ed- + ea. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁é, and, consequently, cognate with Latin et. Related also to Danish ide (“eddy”), Swedish eda (“eddy”), Norwegian ida, ia, ea (“eddy”), Icelandic iða (“eddy”).
词源 2
Clipping of edible.
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