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neap

(niːp)

adj

(Physical Geography) of, relating to, or constituting a neap tide

(Physical Geography) short for neap tide

[Old English, as in nēpflōd neap tide, of uncertain origin]

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neap

(nip)

adj.

1. designating those tides, midway between spring tides, that attain the least height.

2. neap tide.

[before 900; Middle English neep, Old English nēp-, in nēpflōd neap tide]

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Noun

neap - a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon

neap tide

high tide, high water, highwater - the tide when the water is highest

Translations

marea di quadratura

neap

[niːp] N (also neap tide) → marea f muerta

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neap

[ˈniːp] n (also neaptide) → mortes-eaux fpl

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neap

n (also neap-tide) → Nippflut f, → Nippzeit f, → Nipptide f (N Ger)

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neap

[niːp] n (also neap tide) → marea di quadratura

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A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid; which is only what they call a tidal islet, and except in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or at the most by wading.

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Financial and technical support for the NEAPs means stronger action in anti-poaching and anti-trafficking, law enforcement, information-sharing across borders, public education, habitat protection and restoration, community livelihood support, elephant-human conflict reductions, international lobbying against domestic ivory markets and putting national ivory stockpiles beyond economic use among other priority steps.

African countries deserve robust global support to save their threatened elephants

Several member states are, however, "well advanced" in the drafting of their NEAPS. The Commission had previously taken a softly-softly approach to NEEAPs.