neap
IPA: niʌp
noun
- The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
- A neap tide.
- Alternative form of neep [(chiefly Scotland) The swede (rutabaga); turnip.]
verb
- (transitive) To trap (a ship) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
- (intransitive) To ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail.
adjective
- (of a tide) Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.
- Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is the least difference between high tide and low tide.
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Examples of "neap" in Sentences
- Neap tides are weak.
- Neap tide comes twice a month.
- Do you know what neap tides are
- The lower tides are called neap tides.
- Shoal Bay was OK over the last neap tides.
- Low amplitude tides are known as neap tides.
- Friday and Saturday were both full moon days and neap tides.
- I know what a tide is, but I have no idea what a 'neap tide' is.
- The combination of the two is responsible for spring and neap tides.
- Neap tides occur during the first and last quarters of the moon's phases.
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