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:

    “What so soon will wake and grow
    Utterly unlike the snow.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “I know if I wake up cold,

    and go out into the clear spring night,
    still dark and precise with stars,
    I will feel the wind coming down hard
    like his hand, in fever, on my forehead.”
    —Stanley Plumly (b. 1939)

    “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.