Wind wave

In fluid dynamics, wind waves, or wind-generated waves, are surface waves that occur on the free surface of bodies of water (like oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, canals, puddles or ponds).

Quotes

• There's sky and death
  shimmering the waves.
  • Lorna Dee Cervantes, The Prayer pressed between the waves, Emplumada. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1981. ISBN 978-0-8229-5327-2. 

• Vieil océan. ... Si tes vagues sont quelque part en furie, plus loin, dans quelque autre zone, elles sont dans le calme le plus complet.
  • Old ocean! ... If somewhere your waves are enraged, farther off in some other zone they are in the most complete calm.
  • Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror (1972 ed.), p. 13.

• The breaking waves dashed high
  On a stern and rock-bound coast,
  And the woods against a stormy sky,
  Their giant branches toss'd.
  • Felicia Hemans, The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England (1826).

• Each wave, instead of the big, smooth glossy mountain it looks from shore or from a vessel's deck, was for all the world like any range of hills on dry land, full of peaks and smooth places and valleys.
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis (1883). Treasure Island. Cassel & company. p. 194. 

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 554-57.

• Ye waves
  That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe
  Your crisped smiles.
  • Æschylus, Prometheus Chained, line 95. "The multitudinous laughter of the sea." As translation. by De Quincey. "The many-twinkling smile of ocean," is used by Keble—Christian Year. 2nd Sunday After Trinity.'

• What are the wild waves saying,
  Sister, the whole day long,
  That ever amid our playing
  I hear but their low, lone song?
  • Joseph E. Carpenter, What are the Wild Waves Saying?

• Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray.
  • Thomas Hood, Ode to the Moon.

• Come o'er the moonlit sea,
  The waves are brightly glowing.
  • Charles Jefferys, The Moonlit Sea.

• Hitherto thou shalt come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
  • Job, XXXVIII. 11.

See also

• Geography
• Maritime law
• Navy
• Oceans
• Ponds
• River
• Sea
• Water

External links

Wikibooks

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High School Earth Science/Ocean Movements#Waves

• "Anatomy of a Wave" Holben, Jay boatsafe.com captured 5/23/06
• NOAA National Weather Service
• ESA press release on swell tracking with ASAR onboard ENVISAT
• Introductory oceanography chapter 10 – Ocean Waves
• HyperPhysics – Ocean Waves

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