different between neal vs neap

English

Etymology

See anneal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni?l/

Verb

neal (third-person singular simple present neals, present participle nealing, simple past and past participle nealed)

1. (transitive) To temper by heat.
2. (intransitive) To be tempered by heat.

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Anagrams

• Alne, ELAN, Lane, Lean, Lena, Nale, elan, enal, lane, lean, nale, élan

Galician

Alternative forms

• nial, niallo

Etymology

From Latin *n?d?lis, n?d?lem, from n?dus +? -?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni?al/, IPA^(key): /ne?al/

Noun

neal m (plural neais)

1. nest

References

• “neal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English nedle, from Old English n?dl, from Proto-West Germanic *n?þlu.

Noun

neal

1. needle

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?p, IPA^(key): /ni?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology 1

Perhaps of Scandinavian origin: compare dialectal Norwegian neip (“forked pole”).

Noun

neap (plural neaps)

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

Etymology 2

From Middle English neep, from Old English n?p (“scant, lacking”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *n?piz (“narrow”). Found especially in Old English n?pfl?d (“neap tide”, literally “low tide”). Compare Norwegian dialectal nøpen (“scarce, scant, barely enough”).

Adjective

neap (not comparable)

1. (of a tide) Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.
2. Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is the least difference between high tide and low tide.

Translations

Verb

neap (third-person singular simple present neaps, present participle neaping, simple past and past participle neaped)

1. 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.
2. to ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail
   

Noun

neap (plural neaps)

1. A neap tide.

Etymology 3

Noun

neap (plural neaps)

1. Alternative form of neep

References

Anagrams

• -pnea, NAPE, Pena, nape, pane, pané, pean