Vortex vs. Whirlpool

Vortexnoun

A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.

Vortexnoun

(figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.

Vortexnoun

(figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.

Vortexnoun

(historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.

Vortexnoun

(zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.

Vortexnoun

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.

Vortexnoun

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.

Vortexnoun

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

Vortexnoun

the shape of something rotating rapidly

Vortexnoun

a powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting of conflicting tides)

Vortexnoun

a whirling mass of fluid or air, especially a whirlpool or whirlwind

Vortex

In fluid dynamics, a vortex (plural vortices/vortexes) is a region in a fluid in which the flow revolves around an axis line, which may be straight or curved. Vortices form in stirred fluids, and may be observed in smoke rings, whirlpools in the wake of a boat, and the winds surrounding a tropical cyclone, tornado or dust devil.

Whirlpoolnoun

A swirling body of water.

Whirlpoolnoun

A hot tub, jacuzzi.

Whirlpoolnoun

Turmoil, or agitated excitement.

Whirlpoolverb

(intransitive) To spin or swirl like the water in a whirlpool.

Whirlpoolnoun

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.

Whirlpoolnoun

A sea monster of the whale kind.

Whirlpoolnoun

a powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting of conflicting tides)

Whirlpoolverb

flow in a circular current, of liquids

Whirlpool

A whirlpool is a body of rotating water produced by opposing currents or a current running into an obstacle. Small whirlpools form when a bath or a sink is draining.