tide in English dictionary

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    Meanings and definitions of "tide"

    • The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
    • A stream, current or flood.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide. — Shakespeare, Timon of Athens , III-iv
    • (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
    • (Can we date this quote?) And rest their weary limbs a tide — Edmund Spenser
    • (Can we date this quote?) Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride — Edmund Spenser
    • (Can we date this quote?) At the tide of Christ his birth — Fuller
    • (mining) The period of twelve hours.
    • Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
    • Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
    • (Can we date this quote?) There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — Shakespeare. Julius Caesar , IV-iii
    • (obsolete) Violent confluence — Francis Bacon
    • (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
    • (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.
    • (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
    • (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.
    • noun
      The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
    • noun
      A stream, current or flood.
    • noun
      (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy)
      Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
    • noun
      (regional, archaic)
      A time.
    • noun
      (regional, archaic)
      A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
    • noun
      (mining)
      The period of twelve hours.
    • noun
      Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
    • noun
      Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      Violent confluence — Francis Bacon
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To pour a tide or flood.
    • verb
      (intransitive, nautical)
      To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
    • verb
      (intransitive, obsolete)
      To happen, occur.
    • The periodic rise and fall of the water resulting from gravitational interaction between the sun, moon and earth.
    • The periodic rise and fall of the water resulting from gravitational interaction between the sun, moon and earth. In each lunar day of 24 hours and 49 minutes there are two high tides and two low tides. (Source: LANDY)
    • periodic change of sea level
    • noun
      something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea); "a rising tide of popular interest"
    • noun
      there are usually two high and two low tides each day
    • noun
      the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
    • verb
      be carried with the tide
    • verb
      cause to float with the tide
    • verb
      rise or move forward; "surging waves"

    Synonyms of "tide" in English dictionary

    tide over, recurrent event, fluctuation are the top synonyms of "tide" in the English thesaurus.

    Antonyms of "tide" in English dictionary

    ebb is the antonym of "tide" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of tide

    • tide ( third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided)
    • tide ( plural  tides)
    • tide (plural tides)
    • tide (third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided)
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