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Meanings of neap tide in English
Portuguese
água-morta Spanish
cuadratura Usage of neap tide in English
1
Unfortunately, the day proved very rough; and it was little better than a neap tide.
2
Just wander over the reef shelf during a neap tide and look under the rocks.
3
It was almost a neap tide, though this was the fourth quarter of the moon.
4
Neap tide: the least rise and fall during the lunar month.
5
The phenomenon was of daily occurrence until about the time of neap tides.
6
On our west coast the neap tides ran as high as sixty feet.
7
The water rises fifty feet with the spring tides, and twenty-five with neap tides.
8
At neap tides the rock shows only a few black teeth with sea-weed gums above the surface.
9
But in the season of neap tides enough water is left for them to swim about within the semi-circle of stakes.
10
'But what makes the neap tides?'