neap in English

noun
1
a tide just after the first or third quarters of the moon when there is the least difference between high and low water.
Pollack feed longer during smaller neap tides than they do through a big spring tide.
verb
1
(of a boat) be kept aground or in harbor by a neap tide.
She had arrived fully laden one Friday and because of her deep draft was neaped until Monday morning.
noun
    neap tide

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1. Neap tides occur during quarter moons.

2. What are neap tides?

3. Neap tides are especially weak tides.

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6. Temporally, the suspended sediment concentration in the jiaojiang river estuary neap - spring tidal cycle and flood - ebb fluctuations.

7. The location of the center of this area will be advected by tidal and mean currents and can vary with season, spring/neap cycle, etc.

8. During the first and third quarter phases of the moon, when the two luminaries are pulling at right angles to each other, we get neap tides, which neither come in very high nor go out very far.