Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
eddying
present participle of eddy
eddying (plural eddyings)
The motion of an eddy.
• yedding
Source: Wiktionary
Ed"dy, n.; pl. Eddies. Etym: [Prob. fr. Icel. i; cf. Icel. pref. i back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-.]
1. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden. Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. Addison.
Note: Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden.
Ed"dy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Eddied; p. pr. & vb. n. Eddying.]
Definition: To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth.
Ed"dy, v. t.
Definition: To collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.