different between reap vs neap

English

Etymology

From Middle English repen, from Old English r?opan, r?pan, variants of Old English r?pan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *r?pan, from Proto-Germanic *r?pan? (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa (“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h?reyb- (“to snatch”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

reap (third-person singular simple present reaps, present participle reaping, simple past and past participle reaped or (obsolete) reapt)

1. (transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine
2. (transitive) To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
3. (transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
4. (transitive, computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.

Derived terms

• reaper
• reap what one sows
• sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

Translations

Noun

reap (plural reaps)

1. A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

Synonyms

• (bundle of grain): sheaf

Translations

Anagrams

• Earp, Pera, Rape, aper, pare, pear, prae-, præ-, rape

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