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Neaped vs Reaped - What's the difference?

neaped | reaped |

As verbs the difference between neaped and reaped

is that neaped is past tense of neap while reaped is past tense of reap.

As an adjective neaped

is left aground on the height of a spring tide, preventing floating till the next spring tide.

neaped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (neap)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (nautical) Left aground on the height of a spring tide, preventing floating till the next spring tide.

    • Synonyms

    * beneaped (Webster 1913)

    reaped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (reap)

    • reap

    English

    Verb

  • To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
  • * Bible, Leviticus
    • When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
  • To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works, in a good or a bad sense.
    • to reap a benefit from exertions
  • * Milton
    • Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing / For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
  • * (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
    • For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap. Gal.6.7
  • (computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
    • Until a child process is reaped , it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
  • (obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * reaper * reap what one sows *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

    • Anagrams

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