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:

    “I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
    What hours, O what black hours we have spent
    This night!”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “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)

    “We wake and whisper awhile,
    But, the day gone by,
    Silence and sleep like fields
    Of amaranth lie.”
    —Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)