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Definition: Neap Tide |
Neap TideNoun1. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | Tide of decreased range which occurs about every two weeks when the moon is in quadrature. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The tides which, twice in a lunar month, rise least and fall least from the mean level. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | In oceanography, a high tide occurring at the moon's first or third quarter, when the sun's tidal influence is working against the moon's, so that the height of the tide is below the maximum in the approximate ratioof 3:8. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Neap TideSynonym: neap (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: springtide (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Lowness | Low water; low tide, ebb tide, neap tide, spring tide. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
neap tide | 25 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "neap tide"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | baticë minimale (neap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | най-ниското ниво на прилив (neap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nipflod. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | doodtij. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vajaavuoksi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | petite marée, morte-eau, marée de quadrature, marée de morte-eau, marée de morte eau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nipptide (neap), nippflut (neap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διχοτομική παλίρροια. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | legkisebb árapály. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | piccola marea, marea di quadratura, marea delle quadrature. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 小潮 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "しお. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | contraie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eapnay idetay maré de quarto, maré de quadratura, maré de águas mortas. (various references) квадратурный прилив (neap). (various references) najniža plima (neap). (various references) mareas muertas, mareas de cuadratura, marea de cuadratura. (various references) nipflod (neap, near-tide). (various references) กระแสน้ำที่ล"ลง (neap). (various references) on beş günde bir olan hafif gelgit (neap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: depaint, painted, patined. | |
-2 letters: aedine, anteed, detain, dipnet, endite, ideate, pained, pandit, panted, pantie, patine, pedant, pedate, peined, pentad, pineta, teniae. | |
-3 letters: adept, anted, diene, eaten, enate, entia, etape, inapt, inept, paint, paned, pated, paten, patin, pieta, pined, pinta, taped, teind, tenia, tepid, tinea, tined. | |
-4 letters: adit, aide, ante, anti, aped, date, dean, deep. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: bepainted, depainted, pertained, repainted. | |
+2 letters: antependia, interplead, pedantries, pedestrian, pedimental, planetwide, pretrained. | |
+3 letters: antependium, appertained, apprenticed, deceptional, deprecating, deprecation, depredating, depredation, desperation, emancipated, impedimenta, impregnated, interlapped, interplayed, interpleads, interspaced, pedestaling, pedestrians, pentamidine, pentlandite, potentiated, predicament, predominate, reappointed, reimplanted. | |
+4 letters: adaptiveness, antependiums, deprecations, depreciating, depreciation, depredations, desperations, deuteranopia, deuteranopic, displacement, endoparasite, expediential, impersonated, interplanted, interpleaded, interpleader, interpolated, lepidopteran, meanspirited, paedogenetic, pedestalling, pentamidines, pentapeptide, pentlandites, peregrinated, postdeadline, precautioned, predesignate, predestinate, predicaments, predominated, predominates, prenominated, presidential, speedboating, transpierced. | |
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