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:

    “Some say that gleams of a remoter world
    Visit the soul in sleep,—that death is slumber,
    And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber
    Of those who wake and live.—”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

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

    “There was on old person of Fratton
    Who went to church with his hat on.
    “If I wake up,” he said,
    “With my hat on my head,
    I shall know that it hasn’t been sat on.””
    —Anonymous.