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Significados de neap em inglês

português
água-morta
espanhol
cuadratura

A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.

      água-morta
      Uso de neap em inglês
      1
      The phenomenon was of daily occurrence until about the time of neap tides.
      The Romance of the Colorado River / The Story of its Discovery i...
      2
      Height of neap and spring tides, at full and change of the moon.
      The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay / With an Account o...
      3
      On our west coast the neap tides ran as high as sixty feet.
      The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
      4
      It was neap-tide, too, and therefore nothing could be done among the rocks.
      Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
      5
      Or maybe he doesn't know a spring tide from a neap.
      The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
      6
      The water rises fifty feet with the spring tides, and twenty-five with neap tides.
      The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
      7
      Unfortunately, the day proved very rough; and it was little better than a neap tide.
      Men of Invention and Industry
      8
      Just wander over the reef shelf during a neap tide and look under the rocks.
      The sex lives of cannibals: adrift in the equatorial pacific
      9
      It was almost a neap tide, though this was the fourth quarter of the moon.
      Fear nothing
      10
      At neap tides the rock shows only a few black teeth with sea-weed gums above the surface.
      Personal Reminiscences in Book Making, and Some Short Stories
      11
      The spring tides were going by without floating him off, and the neap might soon come which could not.
      Far from the Madding Crowd
      12
      The other man's footprints, on the other hand, reach only to the neap-tide, high-water mark, where they end abruptly.
      John Thorndyke's Cases / related by Christopher Jervis and edite...
      13
      This difficulty of watering only arose from the lowness of the tides (neap) and our ignorance of the country.
      Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Weste...
      14
      But in the season of neap tides enough water is left for them to swim about within the semi-circle of stakes.
      A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs: The Story of a Hundred Years...
      15
      But the tides being neap, the lower parts, particularly where the beams rested on the rock, could not now be seen.
      Records of a Family of Engineers
      16
      Mean high water is, strictly speaking, the average height of all high waters, spring and neap, as ascertained over a long period.
      The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns
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      Translations for neap
      português
      água-morta
      Neap ao longo do tempo