Sinking vs Ebb - What's the difference?
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The act or process of sinking.
* 1857 , Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
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
Sinking is a related term of ebb.
As verbs the difference between sinking and ebb
is that sinking is while ebb is to flow back or recede.As nouns the difference between sinking and ebb
is that sinking is the act or process of sinking while ebb is the receding movement of the tide.As an adjective ebb is
low, shallow.sinking
English
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* like rats from a sinking shipNoun
(en noun)- I witnessed the sinking of my ship from the shore.
- We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district
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)