neap

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.
2. (not-comparable) 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.

Verb

1. (transitive) To trap (a ship) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
2. (intransitive) To ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail.

Conceptos

bajamar

marea baja

muerta

cuadratura

marea muerta

Sinónimos

neap tide

low tide

spring-tide

Traducciones

μειώνομαι

μικραίνω

χαμηλή παλοίρια

المدّ المنخفض

água-morta

niedrig

marea di quadratura

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/niːp/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: neep

Heredado de inglés antiguo: nēp

In summary

Perhaps of Scandinavian origin: compare dialectal Norwegian neip (“forked pole”).