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
- The range of spring tides is 2.1 m, of neap tides 0.6 m.
- On our west coast the neap tides ran as high as sixty feet.
- Add in siege of Malta and Lepanto for neap tide of Islam in Europe.
- These events are called neap tides and they occur during the first and last quarter of the moon.
- a little too softly, and then we get what are called neap-tides; but nearly always he is careful, because of the Eldest Magician.
- These are known as "neap" tides, and, as the sun is acting in opposition to the moon, the height of high water is considerably less than at the time of spring tides.
- Peter chose a neap, but the north wind blowing straight down the open mouth of the Wash has pushed water higher up the salt marsh and is holding it there longer than usual.
- Ultimately, I see societal energy as possessing a kind of oceanic quality, with its ebb and flow, its neap tides and high tides upon which true individuality is a proverbial storm-tossed bark.
- On the other hand, when the sun is so placed as to give us a low tide while the moon is producing a high tide, the net result that we actually experience is merely the excess of the lunar tide over the solar tide; these are what we call neap tides.
- He showed also that to a certain extent the sun produces tides, and he was able to explain how it was that when the sun and the moon both conspire, the joint result was to produce especially high tides, which we call "spring tides"; whereas if the solar tide was low, while the lunar tide was high, then we had the phenomenon of "neap" tides.
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