slack
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8.0
- noun
- /slæk/
:
marea muerta
- Moonlight's showing lines and circles in slack water.
- slack water
- slack tide
- slack water reservoirs
Examples
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It would be slack water soon, and the water would be almost silent, but it would still sound lonely.
Fiction book (1992) -
With an hour to wait for low-water slack, Father Jerome laid his half-wrecked boat against a rock ledge and hopped ashore.
Fiction book (1994) -
That meant the slack tide would begin around 8 A.M. and last for a few hours.
Fiction book (1992) -
Fear of the neap tide when the slack water's high.
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Benson put the canoe into the slack water at the head of the island.
Fiction book (2001) -
The Columbia is no longer a river; it is a succession of slack-water pools behind dams.
Academic text (1990) -
Our journey took us through Lake Ferguson, one of the few slack water ports on the lower Mississippi (and the only one between Venice, Louisiana, and Memphis, Tennessee).
Blog text (11) -
Benson put the canoe into the slack water at the head of the island.
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Geese and coots called to each other in the slack water behind me, and osprey perched in the cottonwoods above.
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The Columbia is no longer a river; it is a succession of slack-water pools behind dams.
Synonyms
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7.9
A time when a tidal river or sea is nearly still as the tide turns
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7.0
A short time when the water is almost still before the current changes direction
Antonyms
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3.4
A fast, powerful flow of water in a river or the sea that pulls people and things away
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.0
A short time when the water is almost still before the current changes direction
How Fast
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slack for a stretch of slow or still water comes from slak meaning 'slow', so a slack of water is a 'slow' or almost motionless part of a river or tide.