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Meaning of "neap"
neap (adjective): Referring to the tide when it is at its lowest level, occurring twice a month during the first and third quarters of the moon. It is often used to describe a very low or minimal level of something
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- The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
- 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.
- To trap a ship (or 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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The neap tides take place when the moon is.
High water of neap tides.
The neap tide literally opens a door for a garden of seafood just below the ice.
Low water of neap tides.
Fish movements in the estuary were greater during spring tides than neap tides.
Ordinary neap tide.
The average height of the high waters of the neap tide.
The neap tides occur when the moon is in its first and last quarter phase.
The average height of the low waters of the neap tide.
The neap tide occurs 7 days after the spring tide.
Syzygy causes the bimonthly phenomena of spring and neap tides.
During neap tides, they exhibit much longer closing periods than during the spring tide.
The frequency of spawns was significantly higher during neap tides following a new moon.
These campaigns happened during the neap to spring tidal transition, under equinoctial and non-equinoctial periods.
There is about a seven-day interval between spring tides and neap tides.
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Neap tides occur during the first and last quarters of the Moon 's phases.
Indeed, the blooms usually develop during the neap tides are relatively isolated.
Every August, the Chausey Regatta takes place on the first weekend of the neap tide.
The Neap Tide, a refreshing cocktail.
When the Moon is at first or last quarter, it forms smaller neap tides.
It 's a neap tide, you will be fine.
Conversely, when the Sun and the Moon are perpendicular, we observe neap tides.
