Neap Definition

nēp
adjective

Designating a type of tide that occurs after the first and third quarters of the lunar month: at these times the high tides are lower and the low tides are higher than the corresponding tides during spring tide, because of the gravitational effects of the right-angled alignment of the moon, earth, and sun.

Webster's New World
noun
Neap tide.
Webster's New World
The tongue of a wagon drawn by two animals.
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verb

To trap a ship (ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.

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Other Word Forms of Neap

Noun

Singular:
neap
Plural:
neaps

Origin of Neap

  • Perhaps of Scandinavian origin: compare dialectal Norwegian neip (“forked pole").

    From Wiktionary

  • Old English nÄ“p- in nÄ“pflōd (“neap tide").

    From Wiktionary

Neap Sentence Examples

  • At low water during neap tides hardly any part of the rock is visible.

  • This was a surprise since the tide runs at several knots even on the smallest neap.

  • About the time of the maxima there must be a longer tidal range (that is, a greater rise and fall than the average); the difference between neap tides and spring tides will also be increased, and as results of these conditions there must be great tidal floods breaking over lowlying coasts and producing extensive denudation.

  • In the other letters written in 1685 and 1686 he applies to Flamsteed for information respecting the orbits of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn, respecting the rise and fall of the spring and neap tides at the solstices and the equinoxes, respecting the flattening of Jupiter at the poles (which, if certain, he says, would conduce much to the stating the reasons of the precession of the equinoxes), and respecting the difference between the observed places of Saturn and those computed from Kepler's tables about the time of his conjunction with Jupiter.

  • On the other hand, Pelvetia canaliculata, which marks the upper belt, is exposed for longer periods, and during neap tides may not be reached by the water for many days.

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Words Starting With

NNENEA

Words Ending With

PAPEAP

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