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Neapy vs Neap - What's the difference?

neapy | neap |

As adjectives the difference between neapy and neap

is that neapy is having a very small difference between low tide and high tide while neap is designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide.

As a noun neap is

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

As a verb neap is

to trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.

neapy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (of tides, nonstandard) Having a very small difference between low tide and high tide.
    • The tides are getting neapier soon.

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    neap

    English

    Etymology 1

    Perhaps of Scandinavian origin: compare dialectal Norwegian .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide.
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    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
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    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)

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