Vortex

(n.) A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.

(n.) A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.

手打:马吉

• The sun is a dizzying scarlet blaze, the sky a violet vortex whirling over me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The divine afflatus usually lasted a week or two, and then she emerged from her 'vortex', hungry, sleepy, cross, or despondent. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• In early youth, the living drama acted around me, drew me heart and soul into its vortex. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Though he is stagnant in his cell, his connections without are whirling in the very vortex of life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• There he leant over the wall and lowered the lamp, only to behold the vortex formed at the curl of the returning current. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The next important epoch was the invention of Forneyron in 1823, of the water-wheel known as the Turbine and also as the Vortex Wheel. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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