Wake

Wake

A wake is the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving or stationary solid body, caused by the flow of surrounding fluid around the body.

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Famous quotes containing the word wake:

    “The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “What are days for?
    Days are where we live.
    They come, they wake us
    Time and time over.
    They are to be happy in:
    Where can we live but days?”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
    Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
    Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
    Lull’d by the moonlight have all pass’d away.”
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)