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Seif vs Neif - What's the difference?

seif | neif |

As nouns the difference between seif and neif

is that seif is aids while neif is snow.

seif

English

Alternative forms

* saif

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind.
  • * 1954 , Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel , Volume 4, page 196,
    • Such seifs have a somewhat zig-zag form instead of a fairly straight line.
    On the top of seifs' small transverse dunelets are very often found, and these may be likened to almost straightened-out barchans.On the top of the ' seif they form a wave-like pattern with a fairly defined "wavelength".
  • * 1973 , Ralph Alger Bagnold, The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes , page 224,
    • Though the actual transition forms suggested in Fig. 76 do exist and have been examined by the author, the above tentative explanation of the growth of a seif dune chain should certainly not be taken as implying that all such chains have originated as barchans.
  • * 1980 , P. Turner, Continental Red Beds , page 80,
    • Seifs are longitudinal forms elongated parallel to the prevailing wind direction.
  • * {{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 26, Bruno Andreotti et al., Giant aeolian dune size determined by the average depth of the atmospheric boundary layer, Nature, url=, doi=10.1038/nature07787, volume=457, issue=7233, pages=1120-1123
    • , passage=Tsoar, H. Dynamic processes acting on a longitudinal (seif ) sand dune . }}

    Synonyms

    * longitudinal dune

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    neif

    English

    Alternative forms

    * neife

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf.
    • (Blackstone)
    (Webster 1913) ---- ==Volapük==

    Noun

    (vo-noun)
  • knife

    • Declension

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