Whirlpool
noun
A quick and forceful movement of water in a circular direction.
The boat was sucked into the whirlpool.
Often appears as...
- form a whirlpool
- caught in a whirlpool
noun
A situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil.
He was caught in a whirlpool of emotions.
Often appears as...
- whirlpool of emotions
- whirlpool of events
noun
A quick and forceful movement of water in a circular direction.
The boat was sucked into the whirlpool.
Often appears as...
- form a whirlpool
- caught in a whirlpool
noun
A situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil.
He was caught in a whirlpool of emotions.
Often appears as...
- whirlpool of emotions
- whirlpool of events
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Phenomenon
Used to describe a powerful circular current of water, often hazardous.
The sailors navigated carefully to avoid the dangerous whirlpool.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Large
Can refer to small water movements in a sink or bath, not just big ones in nature.
I watched the water form a tiny whirlpool as it drained from the bathtub.
Pro Tip 3/3Literal Use
Use 'whirlpool' in the literal sense when discussing actual movements in water.
A whirlpool formed near the riverbank where the current was strongest.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Phenomenon
Used to describe a powerful circular current of water, often hazardous.
The sailors navigated carefully to avoid the dangerous whirlpool.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Large
Can refer to small water movements in a sink or bath, not just big ones in nature.
I watched the water form a tiny whirlpool as it drained from the bathtub.
Pro Tip 3/3Literal Use
Use 'whirlpool' in the literal sense when discussing actual movements in water.
A whirlpool formed near the riverbank where the current was strongest.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Phenomenon
Used to describe a powerful circular current of water, often hazardous.
The sailors navigated carefully to avoid the dangerous whirlpool.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Large
Can refer to small water movements in a sink or bath, not just big ones in nature.
I watched the water form a tiny whirlpool as it drained from the bathtub.
Pro Tip 3/3Literal Use
Use 'whirlpool' in the literal sense when discussing actual movements in water.
A whirlpool formed near the riverbank where the current was strongest.
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Is there a center of the...
suggested the stars were suns that likely had their own planets and that the universe was infinite. This idea didn't go over well. Bruno was burned at the stake for his radical suggestion. Centuries later, the philosopher Rene Descartes proposed that the universe was a series of whirlpools,
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Dark matter: How does it...
Of all the spectacles mankind has viewed through a telescope, there are few lovelier than a spiral galaxy. Majestic whirlpools of stars, they rotate in a stately and predictable dance. The fact that we see many billions of them in our telescopes tells us they are both common and stable.
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Kakani Katija: Ocean...
I get really excited about are these structures that are ejected from the body of the animal these are called vortex rings how many of you have flushed a toilet basically if you just take that whirlpool of fluid you take the the starting end and the finishing ending
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The biggest mistakes in...
best known for his world map, also created a map of the never-before-seen North Pole that was published in 1595. Mercator speculated that the North Pole prominently featured the “Rupes Nigra,” a giant magnetic rock surrounded by a whirlpool
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Lakshmi Pratury: The...
and suffocated by these raging emotional waters, craving to cleanse my soul, trying to emerge on a firm footing one more time, to keep on fighting and flourishing just as you taught me. Your encouraging whispers in my whirlpool of despair,
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Eli the eel: A...
a giant whirlpool in the middle of the ocean. Our eel, let's call it Eli, would begin as one of ten to twenty million tiny eggs, carried by a female eel, hatching into a transparent leaf-shaped thing that looks nothing like an adult eel.
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Why the universe seems...
the ether. But we find real matter comforting only because we've evolved to survive in Middle World, where matter is a useful fiction. A whirlpool, for Steve Grand, is a thing with just as much reality as a rock.
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Sea Kayaking: A...
getting pulled back into a whirlpool feels like someone just reach ups and grabs onto the back ear boat and is pulling me backwards down into the water all of a sudden everything around you
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Justice for Martine Vik...
important he is what we turns out he's in business with whirlpool with Mercedes with Philips and a number of the companies and especially with the coca-cola
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Great Barrier Reef PIPE...
into millions of pieces whirlpools of small metallic bluefish Barracuda gliding like silver submarines occasionally alone predatory shark
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Is there a center of the...
suggested the stars were suns that likely had their own planets and that the universe was infinite. This idea didn't go over well. Bruno was burned at the stake for his radical suggestion. Centuries later, the philosopher Rene Descartes proposed that the universe was a series of whirlpools,
Video examples
Dark matter: How does it...
Of all the spectacles mankind has viewed through a telescope, there are few lovelier than a spiral galaxy. Majestic whirlpools of stars, they rotate in a stately and predictable dance. The fact that we see many billions of them in our telescopes tells us they are both common and stable.
Video examples
Kakani Katija: Ocean...
I get really excited about are these structures that are ejected from the body of the animal these are called vortex rings how many of you have flushed a toilet basically if you just take that whirlpool of fluid you take the the starting end and the finishing ending
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The biggest mistakes in...
best known for his world map, also created a map of the never-before-seen North Pole that was published in 1595. Mercator speculated that the North Pole prominently featured the “Rupes Nigra,” a giant magnetic rock surrounded by a whirlpool
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Lakshmi Pratury: The...
and suffocated by these raging emotional waters, craving to cleanse my soul, trying to emerge on a firm footing one more time, to keep on fighting and flourishing just as you taught me. Your encouraging whispers in my whirlpool of despair,
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Eli the eel: A...
a giant whirlpool in the middle of the ocean. Our eel, let's call it Eli, would begin as one of ten to twenty million tiny eggs, carried by a female eel, hatching into a transparent leaf-shaped thing that looks nothing like an adult eel.
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Why the universe seems...
the ether. But we find real matter comforting only because we've evolved to survive in Middle World, where matter is a useful fiction. A whirlpool, for Steve Grand, is a thing with just as much reality as a rock.
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Sea Kayaking: A...
getting pulled back into a whirlpool feels like someone just reach ups and grabs onto the back ear boat and is pulling me backwards down into the water all of a sudden everything around you
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Justice for Martine Vik...
important he is what we turns out he's in business with whirlpool with Mercedes with Philips and a number of the companies and especially with the coca-cola
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Great Barrier Reef PIPE...
into millions of pieces whirlpools of small metallic bluefish Barracuda gliding like silver submarines occasionally alone predatory shark
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Grace Jones
Model
The problem with the Dorises and the Nicki Minajes and Mileys is that they reach their goal very quickly. There is no long-term vision, and they forget that once you get into that whirlpool, then you have to fight the system that solidifies around you in order to keep being the outsider you claim you represent.
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Michio Kaku
American Physicist
In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.
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Marilyn Ferguson
American Writer
We are constantly nothing but a bunch of energy being processed. Into this whirlpool, the more complex the system, the more energy it requires to hold it together. Therefore, the more complex - the scientists call it 'coherent' - the more fluctuations are possible.
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Rory MacLean
Canadian Historian
Since the summer days of my Canadian childhood, I have loved to canoe across the dark mirror of northern lakes, paddling with an inside flick of the blade, leaving a trail of twisting whirlpools in my wake.
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Garth Brooks
American Singer
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
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Kip Thorne
American Physicist
Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool.
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Marilyn Ferguson
American Writer
We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.
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Donald Glover
American Musician
I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
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Jimmy Iovine
American Producer
I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.
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Grace Jones
Model
The problem with the Dorises and the Nicki Minajes and Mileys is that they reach their goal very quickly. There is no long-term vision, and they forget that once you get into that whirlpool, then you have to fight the system that solidifies around you in order to keep being the outsider you claim you represent.
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Michio Kaku
American Physicist
In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.
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Marilyn Ferguson
American Writer
We are constantly nothing but a bunch of energy being processed. Into this whirlpool, the more complex the system, the more energy it requires to hold it together. Therefore, the more complex - the scientists call it 'coherent' - the more fluctuations are possible.
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Rory MacLean
Canadian Historian
Since the summer days of my Canadian childhood, I have loved to canoe across the dark mirror of northern lakes, paddling with an inside flick of the blade, leaving a trail of twisting whirlpools in my wake.
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Garth Brooks
American Singer
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
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Kip Thorne
American Physicist
Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool.
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Marilyn Ferguson
American Writer
We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.
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Donald Glover
American Musician
I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
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Jimmy Iovine
American Producer
I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.
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