Whirlpool

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A rapidly rotating current of water; a vortex.
  • n. Turmoil; whirl.
  • n. A magnetic, impelling force into which one may be pulled.
  • n. A bathtub or pool having jets of warm water that can be directed toward a body part as for therapeutic purposes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a swirling body of water.
  • n. turmoil, or agitated excitement
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like.
  • n. A sea monster of the whale kind.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A circular eddy or current in a river or the sea produced by the configuration of the channel, by meeting currents, by winds meeting tides, etc.
  • n. Some huge sea-monster of the whale kind; a whirl-whale; a whirl-about.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
  • v. flow in a circular current, of liquids
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    course    feed    flow    run   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    vortex    gurge    well    gulf    eddy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    vortex    whirlwind    maelstrom    cyclone    abyss