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Meanings of neap in English
Portuguese
água-morta Spanish
cuadratura A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
Usage of neap in English
1
The phenomenon was of daily occurrence until about the time of neap tides.
2
Height of neap and spring tides, at full and change of the moon.
3
On our west coast the neap tides ran as high as sixty feet.
4
It was neap-tide, too, and therefore nothing could be done among the rocks.
5
Or maybe he doesn't know a spring tide from a neap.
6
The water rises fifty feet with the spring tides, and twenty-five with neap tides.
7
Unfortunately, the day proved very rough; and it was little better than a neap tide.
8
Just wander over the reef shelf during a neap tide and look under the rocks.
9
It was almost a neap tide, though this was the fourth quarter of the moon.
10
At neap tides the rock shows only a few black teeth with sea-weed gums above the surface.
11
The spring tides were going by without floating him off, and the neap might soon come which could not.
12
The other man's footprints, on the other hand, reach only to the neap-tide, high-water mark, where they end abruptly.
13
This difficulty of watering only arose from the lowness of the tides (neap) and our ignorance of the country.
14
But in the season of neap tides enough water is left for them to swim about within the semi-circle of stakes.
15
But the tides being neap, the lower parts, particularly where the beams rested on the rock, could not now be seen.
16
Mean high water is, strictly speaking, the average height of all high waters, spring and neap, as ascertained over a long period.
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