单词 | day tide |
释义 | day tiden. 1. = daytime n. Also: the period of a day. Cf. night-tide n. 1. Now rare (chiefly poetic or literary in later use).In Old English in dative plural with adverbial force in sense ‘during the daytime’ (although ‘at times’ has alternatively been suggested). ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [noun] day tideOE dayOE daytimeOE daylightOE artificial daya1398 open day?a1430 lightmans1567 open daylight?1585 morning1749 OE Riddle 17 3 Ic..dægtidum oft spæte sperebrogan. 1444 Maldon Corporation Rec. (MED) So the shyppe lye three daye tydis wt in the porte, that the free men bey it a fore eny foreyn. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xx. l. 182 (MED) On of his knythes..Conseilled him forto Abyde Til it were more to the day tyde. 1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 123 At brim of day-tide. 1895 W. Morris & A. J. Wyatt tr. Tale of Beowulf (1898) 87 The warrior of men: wore the while of a daytide [Old English hwil dæges] Or ever the ground-plain might he set eyes on. 1971 Monumenta Nipponica 26 192 A day will come when the sun grows dark during the daytide. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > canonical hours > [noun] > one of tidec1000 day tideOE OE Benedictine Office (Junius) (1957) 82 De prima hora. On ðære forman dægtide, þæt is be sunnon upgange, we sculon God herian. a1225 ( Rule St. Benet (Winteney) (1888) xvii. 53 (heading) Hu felan sealmas man sceall to þan daȝtiden [OE Corpus Cambr. ðurh ða sylfan tida] secȝen. 3. A tide of the sea (tide n. 7) occurring during the day, as opposed to at night. Cf. night-tide n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] counter-tide1570 night-tide1600 day tidea1615 cross tide1675 ocean tide1771 a1615 N. Downton in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) I. iii. xii. 302 The night tydes higher then the day tyde by three foot. 1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 275 Although this happen but to one of the two Tides; that is, the Night-tide at the New-moon..and the Day-tide at Full-moon. 1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 123 I thought it was much better to stay till the Day-tide, when they would be better able to see the Ropes. 1777 Philos. Trans. 1776 (Royal Soc.) 66 448 A notion..that the night-tide rises higher than the day-tide. 1840 Mechanic & Chemist 9 May 16/1 How is it, that..in north latitude, the day tides are higher than the night tides during summer, and lower during winter? 1905 C. P. Goodyear et al. Let. 8 Nov. in Documents House of Representatives (59th Congr., 1st Sess.) (1906) XLVII. No. 407. 25 The range lights which permit vessels to take advantage of night as well as day tides double the value of a port. 2003 Estuaries 26 536/2 Night tides were often much higher than day tides. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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