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 don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

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

    “And whether life had been before that sleep
    The Heaven which I imagine, or a Hell

    ‘Like this harsh world in which I wake to weep,
    I know not.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)