单词 | spring tide |
释义 | spring tiden. 1. a. Frequently as one word. The season of spring; springtime. In later use chiefly literary or poetic.Cf. spring n.1 17a for varying conceptions of the time and duration of the season. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > spring LenteneOE LentlOE warea1300 verec1325 vera1382 vere-time1382 springing timea1387 springinga1398 springa1400 prime tempsa1425 the spring of the year1481 grass1485 springtime1495 prime time1503 sap-time?1523 spring tide1530 (the) spring of the leaf1538 prime1541 prime tide1549 voar1629 vernal season1644 vernal1654 outcome1672 Lent term1691 blossom-time1713 open water1759 rabi1783 budding-timea1807 ware-time1820 growing season1845 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement iii. f. lxxxiiiv/1 Belongyng to the springe tyde, vernal. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 352 What man is able to affirme, that he euer sawe the Spring tide without Marche Uiolettes? 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 6 It happeneth verie often that the northren or western winde..bringeth springtide in the winter season. 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra (Job xix. 27) 174 See we not a yearly Resurrection of grasse, grain, herbs, flowers, fruits every Spring tide? 1763 F. Hoyland Poems & Transl. 28 Soon comes the Springtide, breathing pure, And Summer Suns are all your own. 1795 Gentleman's Mag. July 539 The animalculæ that in spring-tide often almost obscure the sun itself. 1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 251 Spring-tide reigns o'er stream and field. 1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 228 A breath of uncontaminate springtide seems to lift the hair upon my forehead. 1933 Irish Monthly Nov. 698 She was full of life as moorland air, Or as the springtide when most fresh and fair. 1991 S. Bhatt Monkey Shadows 52 The first day of an early Springtide. b. figurative and in extended use: a period likened to springtime, esp. in being fresh, new, or full of vigour; the first stage or period of something. Frequently with of. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > spring > a season resembling spring tide1537 springtime1579 1537 T. Paynell tr. Erasmus Comparation Vyrgin & Martyr f. 23 You haue preuented the springe tyde of the gospell [L. uer Euangelicum], and haue made a shewe of euangelycal vertue, before the gospell was shewed or knowen to the worlde. 1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes Ep. to Rdr. sig. A2v Which in one and this very springtide haue in my selfe knowne the force of seasons. 1640 T. Carew Poems 80 Happy Youth, that shalt possesse Such a spring-tyde of delight. 1749 W. Hawkins Henry & Rosamond iii. i. 39 I've trac'd her Mother in her Face, Pleas'd to recall the Spring-tide of my Days. a1797 M. Wollstonecraft Wrongs of Woman (1798) I. vii. 140 The vain regret of having..let the spring-tide of existence pass away, unimproved, unenjoyed. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such xiv. 249 He is no longer in his spring-tide. 1879 M. Collins Pen Sketches I. 213 The spring-tide of her youth. 1968 C. Y. Lang Pre-Raphaelites & Their Circle Pref. p. iii I have done my best to present The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle as young rebels in their spring tide. 1998 Biography 21 215 Writing in the spring-tide of the nineteenth century, Hazlitt observed that [etc.]. 2. a. A tide occurring around the time of the new or full moon, when the high-water level is highest, the low-water level is lowest, and the difference between high and low tide is at its greatest; esp. a high tide of this kind. Cf. spring n.1 6.Spring tides occur when the Earth, Moon, and Sun all lie on approximately the same line, so that the gravitational pull of the sun reinforces that of the moon. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > spring springa1398 spring-floodc1405 spring tide1548 high tide1609 sea-spring1627 overloup1710 stream-tide1789 overleap1795 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccixv At whiche season was suche a spryng tide, that it brake the walles of Hollande and Zelande. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 24v At full & at change springe tydes are strange. a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 97 Here is an haven..whereinto at a spring tide a ship of 100 ton may enter. 1689 London Gaz. No. 2478/1 Whither he would march the next Spring-Tide, the Strand..not being fordable for Foot till that time. 1724 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 52 Which stones..are adry only on spring tydes. 1776 D. Dalrymple Ann. Scotl. I. 138 A sudden land-flood, met by a spring-tide, surrounded and overwhelmed the town. 1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 49 The spring tides run at the rate of nine miles an hour. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xvi. 265 When the full moon brought the spring tide. 1954 New Biol. 17 102 The broad oar-weeds, the Laminarias,..occupy the shore at low-water mark of spring tides and at greater depth. 2014 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 25 July a7/5 Spring tides this month and next..will be further accentuated by the extra-close full moons. b. figurative and in figurative contexts, with of: a great quantity or amount of something; a surge or sudden increase of something, such as an emotion or political feeling.Frequently as one word. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > profuseness, luxuriousness, or lushness > a profusion or lavish abundance > viewed as flowing or falling stream971 flood1340 affluencec1390 showera1425 spatec1425 delugec1430 rain1590 spring tide1592 cataract?1614 flux1678 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. F3v The blustring winds..haue..Made mountains marsh with spring tides of my teares. a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) Soliloquy vi. 31 If spring tides of Gold should a degree Transcend thy wish, perchance it would want thee. 1660 W. Secker Nonsuch Professor Ep. Ded. sig. A5 In the highest flood and spring-tides of outward mercies, its hard to keep our hearts within the channell. a1704 T. Brown Dialogues of Dead in 4th Vol. Wks. (1720) 134 What of late Years brings daily such Gluts and Spring-Tides of Souls to our infernal Mansions. 1753 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 472 This has been quite a spring-tide of diversion. 1808 W. Scott Marmion i. Introd. 14 Woe, wonder, and sensation high, In one spring-tide of ecstacy. 1887 W. J. Knox-Little Broken Vow 163 To check the springtide of my girlish joy. 1956 Middle East Jrnl. 10 267 The twentieth century's spring-tide of nationalism sweeping through North Africa. 2005 A. Brown J. D. Bernal ii. 38 A springtide of socialism seemed about to engulf the British Isles in April 1921. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > state of or advanced condition > highest point prickOE heighta1050 full1340 higha1398 pointc1400 roofa1500 top-castle1548 ruff1549 acmea1568 tip1567 noontide1578 high tide1579 superlative1583 summity1588 spring tide1593 meridian1594 period1595 apogee1600 punctilio1601 high-water mark1602 noon1609 zenith1610 auge1611 apex1624 culmination1633 cumble1640 culmen1646 climax1647 topc1650 cumulus1659 summit1661 perigeum1670 highest1688 consummation1698 stretch1741 high point1787 perihelion1804 summary1831 comble1832 heading up1857 climacteric1870 flashpoint1878 tip-end1885 peak1902 noontime1903 Omega point1981 1593 E. Spenser 2nd Epit. Sir P. Sidney in Phœnix Nest 10 My ebbe is come: his life was my spring tide. 1606 B. Rich Faultes f. 14 There cannot bee a more excellent touchstone, whereby to discouer the dispositions of men, then is..the springtide of prosperitie, and the lowe ebbe of aduersitie. a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 42 In a Spring tide Sin doth overflowe. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned ii. iv. 215 They [sc. Converts] find they cannot maintain those spring-tides constantly at the same height. 1721 A. Welwood Meditations 28 My Loves overflow, my Joys are in their Springtide. 1778 S. Johnson Let. 24 Oct. (1992) III. 130 You appear to me to be now floating on the Spring tide of Prosperity, on a tide not governed by the moon. 1809 W. Scott Let. 14 Sept. (1937) XII. 312 The spring-tide..may for ought I know break in this next session of parliament. 1890 Spectator 29 Mar. It should convince them that there is no spring tide flowing strongly towards Home-rule. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hippolytus i, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 56 To gernish vp the field With lusty springtide flowers [L. vernas..herbas] fresh. 1608 T. Dekker Dead Tearme sig. B4 All other..Professions, do row vp & down this Spring-tide streame of businesse. 1641 J. Johnson Acad. Love 4 Daphnes metamorphosis commanded the amorous flood of his spring-tide-passion to retire. 1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. lxiii. 21 When spring-tide joy pours in with copious flood, The higher still th' exulting billows flow. 1786 R. Burns Poems 211 At Wallace' name, what Scottish blood, But boils up in a spring-tideflood! 1808 W. Scott Marmion iii. viii. 140 No thrush Sings livelier from a spring-tide bush. a1821 J. Keats Eve St. Mark in R. M. Milne Life & Lett. Keats (1848) II. 279 The chilly sunset faintly told..Of rivers new with spring-tide sedge. 1871 S. B. James Duty & Doctr. (ed. 3) 62 That Heavenly spring-tide radiance which can never fade away. 1931 Musical Times 72 882/1 Venus the Fountain of Life, the springtide influence in the affairs of nature and of man. 2013 Dover Express (Nexis) 19 Sept. 67 They encountered some springtide fog. Derivatives ˈspring tide-like adj. ΚΠ 1662 H. Hibbert Exercitationes Theologicæ 32 in Syntagma Theologicum An ebullition or a spring-tide-like overflow. 1868 John Bull 21 Mar. 200/2 The weather has been very delightful and springtide like. 2010 Sunday Tribune (Ireland) (Nexis) 11 July n12 Eamon Gilmore, his successor as Labour leader, is enjoying ‘Spring Tide’-like popularity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1530 |
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