LOW WATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does low water mean? 

• LOW WATER (noun)
  The noun LOW WATER has 1 sense:

1. the lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide

  Familiarity information: LOW WATER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOW WATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

low tide; low water

Hypernyms ("low water" is a kind of...):

tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)

 Context examples 

And, it being low water, he went out with the tide.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A-DNA is the favored conformation at low water concentrations.

(A-DNA, NCI Thesaurus)

Area of shore between mean high water and mean low water.

(Littoral zone, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

“It is incredible to see such low water abundances in the atmospheres of a broad range of planets orbiting a variety of stars,” said Madhusudhan.

(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)

Why, so, he replied: you take a line ashore there on the other side at low water, take a turn about one of them big pines; bring it back, take a turn around the capstan, and lie to for the tide.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

By tracking 'gators, the ecologists determined that alligators remain in marine habitats for longer periods around spring tides — tides just after a full or new moon, when there's the greatest difference between high and low water. (In contrast, neap tides occur just after the first or third quarters of the moon, when there is the least change between high and low water.)

(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)

We are seeing the first signs of chemical patterns in extra-terrestrial worlds, and we’re seeing just how diverse they can be in terms of their chemical compositions, said project leader Dr Nikku Madhusudhan from the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, who first measured low water vapour abundances in giant exoplanets five years ago.

(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)