Low Water

Definition: Low Water

Low Water

Noun

1. The lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide.

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Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Geography

Slang in 1811

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Synonym: Low Water

Dryness

Noun: dryness. Adjective: siccity, aridity, drought, ebb tide, low water.

Insufficiency

Emptiness, poorness; Adjective:; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb tide; low water; " a beggarly account of empty boxes "; indigence; insolvency; (nonpayment).

Lowness

Low water; low tide, ebb tide, neap tide, spring tide.

Poverty

Bad circumstances, poor circumstances, need circumstances, embarrassed circumstances, reduced circumstances, straightened circumstances; slender means, narrow means; straits; hand to mouth existence, res angusta domi, low water, impecuniosity.

Crosswords: Low Water

Books

• Low Water Slack (reference)

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Periodicals

• Tide Tables High And Low Water Predictions East Coast Of North And South America Including Greenland (reference)

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Diagram showing relationship of tide to marker at Poolbeg Lighthouse Datum referred to low water April 8, 1837 for County Dublin Note use of Mean Sea Level. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Leveling to tide staff and water's edge at extreme low tide Bubbler gauge orifice at right lower edge of photo Improper installation necessitated leveling to assure observing lowest low water Tidal bench mark leveling work off of DAVIDSON. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The Lighthouse at Triagoz. Plate 27, Figure 1. Shows high and low water. In: 'Memoir upon the Lighting, Beaconage, and Buoyage of the Coast of France" by M. Leonce Reynaud. Plates. Translated by Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins, U. S. N. 1871. Washington. Call Number TC 375 .R45 1871. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Planting foxtail millet, a summer annual forage with low water needs, helps conserve water for subsequent crops. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Low water crossing over the Little Missouri River. Credit: Merv Coleman.

Ripids in low water moving at 350 cfs in the John Day River. Credit: John Craig.

St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Public pasture land inside the Mississippi levee which is valuable during low water periods. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

Ghana

Ghana experienced a severe power shortage in 1998 due to low water levels in Lake Volta and consequent reduced hydroelectric power production. (references)

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Expressions using "low water": be in low water ♦ Low water alarm ♦ low water discharge ♦ low water flow ♦ Low water indicator ♦ Low water mark. Additional references.

Danish

lavvande (low tide), ebbe (low tide). (various references)

Dutch

LW (low tide), laagwater (low tide), laag water, laag tij (low tide), laag getij (low tide), grind (gravel, grit), ebbe (low tide), eb (ebb, low tide). (various references)

Finnish

luode (ebb, low tide, north-west). (various references)

French

marée basse (low tide), BM (low tide), basses eaux, basse mer (low tide), étiage (low flow). (various references)

German

Tideniedrigwasser (low tide), NW (canton of Nidwalden, low tide, North-West), Niedrigwasser (low tide), Niederwasser (grave, minimum flow), Ebbe (ebb, ebb tide, low tide, tide). (various references)

Greek 

ρηχία (low tide), χαμηλή στάθμη, άμπωτις (ebb, ebb tide, fall of the water, falling tide, low tide). (various references)

Hungarian

apály (ebb, Ebb tide, ebb-tide, low tide, neap), alacsony vízállás (low tide). (various references)

Italian

magra (minimum flow), ghiaia (gravel, grit), bassa marea (low tide), acque di magra, acque basse (low tide, shallow, shallow water, shoal), acqua bassa (low tide). (various references)

Manx

traih-varrey (ebb), traih (abate, abatement, decrement, diminish, efflux, flow away, flow out, go down, go off, make, make of ebb, ooze away, sink, subside, subsidence), mooir-hraie (ebb, low tide). (various references)

Pig Latin

owlay aterway

Portuguese

maré vazia (low tide), maré vaza (low tide), maré baixa (low tide), estiagem (grave, minimum flow), baixa-mar (low tide, reflux). (various references)

Romanian

reflux (ebb, Ebb tide, low tide, retard of the tide, retreat), maree joasã (neap), apã joasã. (various references)

Russian 

отлив (ebb, ebb tide, ebb-tide, low tide, refluence, reflux), малая вода (low tide). (various references)

Spanish

marea baja (low tide), estiaje mínimo (grave, minimum flow), estiaje (grave, minimum flow), bajamar (low tide). (various references)

Swedish

lågvatten (low tide). (various references)

Turkish

çekilme (abdication, breakaway, cession, contraction, defection, pull off, pull out, reflux, resignation, retirement, walkout, withdrawal). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: awlwort.

-2 letters: trowel.

-3 letters: alert, alter, artel, later, lower, oater, orate, owlet, ratel, rowel, taler, tawer, tolar, towel, tower, trawl, waler, water, wrote.

-4 letters: aero, aloe, alow, alto, awol, earl, late, lear, lore, lota, lowe, olea, oral, orle, rale, rate, rato, real, role, rota, rote, rotl, tael, tale, tare, taro, teal, tear, tela, toea.

+1 letter: waterfowl.

+2 letters: waterfowls.

+3 letters: strawflower, waterfowler.

+4 letters: strawflowers, waterfowlers, waterfowling.

+5 letters: waterfowlings.