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:
“You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.”
—Quentin Tarantino, U.S. screenwriter and director. Mr. White (Harvey Keitel)
“An hour of winter day might seem too short
To make it worth life’s while to wake and sport.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again.... No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one’s pocket for another meal.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)