Tide between springs

Usage examples of neap.

Based on the Langenscheidt map, there should have been a small village identified as Neap in the valley below them.

He held the commercial map against the side of the APC, indicated Neap, then created B-52 sounds and walked his fingers across Neap.

At this time of the year, however, with the river water shrunk to its lowest level, its main task was to keep out the North Sea except at the very latest of neap tides.

Such ideas were naturally met with skepticism among more rational cultures, but on the morning of the sixth day of the siege, the neap tide carried a peculiar omen up onto the sand: a harvest of translucent eggs the size of beach balls.

We had about two hours in which to work, depending on the stage of neap and spring tides.

The position of the sun could amplify them into spring tides, or restrain them as neap tides.

Venus and in which Sir Isaac expected to return home, and the Spring Tide, the Luna shuttle which alternated with its sister the Neap Tide.

We had been sixties children, coddled first, then spoiled, and finally stranded by the neap tide of narcissism, left to rot with our obsessive quests for personal fulfillment.

So the springs are the highest and strongest around new and full moon, and the neaps are the smallest and weakest at first and third quarters.

There was a power plant that ran on methane, to judge by the pile of animal dung neaped next to it, and a great big metal doughnut, still sitting in half of the crate it had come in, that looked like the makings of a small fusion generator.

There was a power plant that ran on methane, to judge by the pile of animal dung neaped next to it, and a great big metal doughnut, still sitting in half of the crate it had come in, that looked like the makings of a small fusion generator.

When the sun or moon are at right-angles to each other in relation to the earth their pull is weakest and we get the smaller tides which are weaker and called neaps.

So the springs are the highest and strongest around new and full moon, and the neaps are the smallest and weakest at first and third quarters.

APC looking down at the long strip of ruin below them where two hundred Cambodians had once lived in a village called Neap.

Twice in her lifetime a neap tide had drawn the water back half a mile from the gravel strand at the eastern margin of Barca's Hamlet.