Ebb vs Peter - What's the difference?
ebb | peter |
The receding movement of the tide.
* (rfdate) Shelley
A gradual decline.
* (rfdate) Roscommon
A low state; a state of depression.
* (rfdate) Dryden
* 2002 , (Joyce Carol Oates), The New Yorker , 22 & 29 April
A European bunting, .
to flow back or recede
to fall away or decline
to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
To cause to flow back.
low, shallow
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* 1911 , Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1993, Chapter I
* 1933 , Over the Garden Wall ,Faber and Faber 1933, page 90 ("Boys' Names")
The leading Apostle in the New Testament.
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(biblical) The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, attributed to St. Peter.
As nouns the difference between ebb and peter
is that ebb is the receding movement of the tide while peter is (hypocoristic slang ) the penis.As verbs the difference between ebb and peter
is that ebb is to flow back or recede while peter is (most often used in the phrase peter out) to dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing.As an adjective ebb
is low, shallow.ebb
English
Noun
(en noun)- The boats will go out on the ebb .
- Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow / Claspest the limits of morality!
- Thus all the treasure of our flowing years, / Our ebb of life for ever takes away.
- Painting was then at its lowest ebb .
- A "lowest ebb'" implies something singular and finite, but for many of us, born in the Depression and raised by parents distrustful of fortune, an "' ebb " might easily have lasted for years.
Derived terms
* ebb and flow * ebb tideAntonyms
* flood * flowVerb
(en verb)- The tides ebbed at noon .
- The dying man's strength ebbed away .
- (Ford)
Synonyms
ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out, reflux, waneAdjective
(er)- The water there is otherwise very low and ebb . (Holland)
peter
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun) (Epistle of Peter)- She knew of no Peter , and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.
- What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word, / And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, / And Peter like a piper's tune,
- And I say unto thee, That thou art Peter , and upon this rock I will build my church;