tide1 nountide2 verb
tidetide1 /taɪd/ ●●○ noun 
WORD ORIGINtide1
Origin:
Old English tid ‘time’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Driftwood on the beach was brought in by the tide.
- It is unclear who will pay for the tide of refugees flowing into the country.
- At high tides, sections of the line are submerged, whilst the sea scours away the track bed.
- Even the great Chicago fire of 1871 could not stem the tide.
- She couldn't resist the challenge of swimming back over the tide when the boys suggested it.
- Sometimes when the afternoon tide of heat reached its high mark, we would go over to the hotel.
- The tide turned when Tamerlane invaded their territory and in 1398 successfully raided Delhi, and sacked it without mercy.
- The young, the old, the frail are all sucked into its sweeping tide.
- They have repeatedly looked for a connection between crustal tides and earthquakes over the past few decades, but to no avail.
THESAURUS
especially British English the large area of salty water that covers much of the Earth’s surface: · She lives by the sea.· The sea was very rough.
especially American English the large area of salty water that covers much of the Earth’s surface: · a house by the ocean· The restaurant had a sweeping view of the ocean.
a large area of water – used about an area of water that belongs to a particular country, or when describing what the water is like: · boats fishing in Canadian waters· British territorial waters· the calm waters of the harbour· dangerous waters· choppy waters (=with a lot of waves)
an area of sea that is partly enclosed by a curve in the land: · I swam across the bay.· the Bay of Biscay
a very large area of sea partly enclosed by land: · the Gulf of Mexico· oil from the Gulf (=the area of water near Iran, Saudi Arabia etc)
the regular rising and falling of the level of the sea: · Is the tide going out or coming in ?· High tide (=when the sea is at its highest level)is at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.· low tide (=when the sea is at its lowest level)· The rocks are visible at low tide.
a line of raised water that moves across the surface of the sea: · The waves were crashing against the rocks.
WORD SETSbackwater, nounbank, nounbank, verbbare, adjectivebarrier reef, nounbay, nounbayou, nounbeach, nounbeck, nounbelt, nounbillow, nounbiting, adjectivebitter, adjectiveblack ice, nounblast, nounblazing, adjectivebleach, verbblizzard, nounblow, verbblowy, adjectivebluff, nounbluster, verbblustery, adjectivebog, nounboiling, adjectiveboulder, nounbracing, adjectivebreaker, nounbreeze, nounbreezy, adjectivebrook, nounbrush, nounbrushwood, nounburn, nounbutte, nouncanyon, nouncascade, nouncataract, nouncave, nouncavern, nounchange, verbchasm, nounchoppy, adjectiveclap, nounclear, verbclement, adjectivecliff, nouncloud, nouncloudburst, nouncloudy, adjectivecoast, nouncoastal, adjectivecoastline, nouncone, nouncopse, nouncountry, nouncranny, nouncrater, nouncreation, nouncreep, verbcrisp, adjectivecrosswind, nouncumulus, nouncyclone, noundale, noundell, noundense, adjectivedew, noundewdrop, noundewfall, noundewy, adjectivedisgorge, verbdog days, noundownpour, noundownriver, adverbdownstream, adverbdownwind, adverbdrift, verbdrift, noundriftwood, noundrizzle, noundrop, verbdrop, noundrought, noundry, adjectivedry land, noundull, adjectivedune, nounduster, noundust storm, nouneast, adjectiveeddy, nounelectrical storm, nounequable, adjectiveeye, nounface, nounfail, verbfair, adjectivefall, nounfell, nounfen, nounfield, nounfierce, adjectivefiord, nounfirth, nounfjord, nounflood, verbflood, nounflood tide, nounflotsam, nounflow, nounflow, verbflower, nounflurry, nounfog, nounfogbound, adjectivefoggy, adjectivefoothill, nounfoothold, nounford, nounforeshore, nounforest, nounfoul, adjectivefreak, adjectivefreeze, nounfresh, adjectivefreshen, verbfreshwater, adjectivefrost, nounfury, noungale, noungale force, adjectivegap, noungentle, adjectivegeyser, nounglacial, adjectiveglen, noungnarled, adjectivegrassy, adjectivegreen, adjectivegreenery, nounground, nounground level, noungulley, noungully, noungust, noungust, verbgusty, adjectivehail, nounhailstone, nounhailstorm, nounhaze, nounheadwind, nounheath, nounheather, nounheat wave, nounhigh tide, nounhigh water, nounhill, nounhillock, nounhillside, nounhill station, nounhilly, adjectivehoarfrost, nounhot spring, nounhummock, nounhurricane, nounice, nouniceberg, nounice cap, nouninclement, adjectiveincline, nounIndian summer, nouninland, adjectiveinland, adverbinlet, nouninshore, adverbisland, nounisle, nounislet, nounjetsam, nounjungle, nounknoll, nounlake, nounlakeside, adjectiveledge, nounlightning, nounlip, nounloch, nounlough, nounlow tide, nounlow water, nounmarshland, nounmeadow, nounmere, nounmild, adjectivemillpond, nounmire, nounmist, nounmisty, adjectivemoan, verbmoan, nounmonsoon, nounmoonless, adjectivemoor, nounmoorland, nounMother Nature, nounmound, nounmountain, nounmountainous, adjectivemountainside, nounmountaintop, nounmouth, nounmudflat, nounmull, nounmurmur, verbmurmur, nounnarrows, nounnestle, verbnew moon, nounnook, nounnorth, adjectivenortheast, adjectivenortheaster, nounnortheasterly, adjectivenortherly, adjectivenorthwest, adjectivenorthwester, nounnorthwesterly, adjectivenotch, nounoasis, nounonshore, adjectiveooze, nounoutcrop, nounovercast, adjectiveozone, nounpack ice, nounpalisade, nounpanorama, nounparch, verbparched, adjectivepass, nounpatchy, adjectivepeak, nounpeal, nounpeasouper, nounpebble, nounpelt, verbpenumbra, nounperishing, adjectivepinewood, nounpinnacle, nounpitiless, adjectivepond, nounpour, verbprecipice, nounprospect, nounpuddle, nounquicksand, nounradiate, verbraging, adjectiverain, nounrainbow, nounrain drop, nounrainfall, nounrainstorm, nounrainwater, nounrainy, adjectiverange, nounrapids, nounrarefied, adjectiveravine, nounraw, adjectiverecede, verbreedy, adjectivereef, nounreservoir, nounridge, nounrift, nounrime, nounrise, verbrise, nounrock, nounrocky, adjectiveroll, verbrolling, adjectiverough, adjectiverural, adjectivescenery, nounscud, verbsea breeze, nounsea mist, nounset, verbshore, nounsky, nounslope, nounsludge, nounsnow, nounsnowbound, adjectivesnow-capped, adjectivesnowdrift, nounsnowfall, nounsnowflake, nounsnowstorm, nounsnowy, adjectivesouth, adjectivesoutheast, adjectivesoutheaster, nounsoutheasterly, adjectivesoutherly, adjectivesouthwest, adjectivesouthwesterly, adjectivespinney, nounspring, nounstream, nounsullen, adjectivesultry, adjectivesummer, nounsummit, nounsun, nounsundown, nounsun-drenched, adjectivesunrise, nounsunset, nounsunshine, nounswamp, nounsweep, verbswollen, adjectivetempestuous, adjectivethaw, verbthaw, nounthicket, nounthin, adjectivethunder, verbthunderbolt, nounthunderstorm, nounthundery, adjectivetide, nountreeless, adjectivetree-lined, adjectivetrough, nounturf, nountussock, nountwilight, nounvale, nounvalley, nounverdant, adjectivevisibility, nounvoid, nounwashout, nounwater, nounwatercourse, nounwaterfall, nounwaterside, nounwaterspout, nounwax, verbwest, adjectivewest, adverbwestbound, adjectivewesterly, adjectivewesternmost, adjectivewestward, adverbwet, adjectivewhirlpool, nounwhirlwind, nounwhite horses, nounwhitewater, nounwild, adjectivewill o' the wisp, nounwind, nounwindstorm, nounwindswept, adjectivewindy, adjectivewood, nounwooded, adjectivewoodland, nounwoodsy, adjectivewoody, adjectivezephyr, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYadjectives
The measures are meant to stem the tide of illegal immigration. The victory turned the tide of the war in North Africa.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
(=the sea covers the shore)· You can’t walk on the beach when the tide is in.
· Let’s go for a walk along the beach while the tide is out.
· At high tide the island is completely cut off.
· The sands are exposed at low tide.
· The box was carried upstream on the incoming tide.
· The rising tide had begun to fill up the channel.
(=the flow of the sea away from the shore)· We sailed out to sea on the ebb tide.
(=the flow of the sea towards the land)· The wind drove the yacht inland on the flood tide.
(=a large rise and fall in the level of the sea, that happens when there is a new moon and when there is a full moon)· It must be a spring tide.
(=a very small rise and fall in the level of the sea, that happens at the first and third quarters of the moon)· Spring tides alternate with neap tides.
verbs (=the sea comes nearer)· Once the tide comes in, the cove is cut off.
· They sat on the beach watching the tide going out.
(=starts coming in or going out)· Soon, the tide would turn and the waves would begin to creep inshore again.
(=become trapped as the sea rises)· Two anglers had to be rescued after getting cut off by the tide.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The measures are meant to stem the tide of illegal immigration. The victory turned the tide of the war in North Africa.· The seas around California are today warmer than at any time since 1957 and there are record high tides.· When he comes down, it is like high tide along the shore-all the wet muddy places sparkle with life and motion.· At high tides, sections of the line are submerged, whilst the sea scours away the track bed.· That day, a high tide and strong winds brought flooding to coasts fringing the Firth of Clyde.· Police in Essex and Kent issued flood warnings for yesterday afternoon's high tide and further problems were expected later.· This commonly occurs at high tide.· He had been walking on the riverbank observing a high tide.· When there's a high tide they get sea water in their sitting rooms!
· The noise of the incoming tide had interrupted their games on the sand further out in the estuary.· They write themselves, the way an incoming tide seeks its own level.· But once she was alone with her knitting depression crept up on Leonora like an incoming tide.· It was swamped by the incoming tide and sank at about 5am yesterday.· She guessed they'd come about twenty yards inland; she could still hear the sigh and fall of the incoming tide.· The striking of the half hour alerted me to the incoming tide of darkness.· When the track splits at a sign warning of incoming tides, take the left fork towards the shore.
· At Lyness, the Thorsvoe noses in on the low tide.· It hit us at lower tide.· She imagined the castle, at low tide, grey, black, then silver in the changing light.· The stench of low tide hung over the entire area, from the river all the way over to the Five Points.· Near to them is Lindisfarne or Holy Isle which can only be reached by way of a causeway at low tide.· It was always low tide in the Five Points.· At low tide it is sometimes just possible to cross the channel without swimming.· A count at low tide tallies nearly 800 rocks, reefs, islands and other features poking above the surface.
· But things change quickly at Ferrari and, in 1990, he found himself swimming against the political tide.· With the bishops also back in the House of Lords, the political tide had now turned very markedly against the Puritans.· But the political tide seemed to be flowing in a different direction.· Plenty of work here for thinkers who can catch the political tide.· But by then the political tide had shifted firmly against it.
· If not, there will have been a real loss, which will no doubt add to the rising tide of semi-literacy.· Is that snow wind's whine the same travelling still, the rising wind and tide reaching your body buried in sand?· Otherwise every traffic jam will gradually vanish beneath a rising tide of its own foamy output.· The steps were green with mould where the rising tide lapped against them.· Trams stood marooned as they were engulfed by a rising tide of workers demanding a hearing.· In fact, without his realizing it a rising tide of change was lapping around his ankles.
· Avoid strong tides, offshore winds, poor visibility or sailing in the dark.· Well, there was a strong el tide this summer.· Local storms at sea and strong equinoctial tides may affect whale migration routes that pass close to the coast.· It tugged at the coils of my hair as if it wanted to see them floating on its strong gray tides.
NOUN· And she couldn't bear the thought of being sucked back into the ebb tide of loneliness again either.· It was ebb tide and the current was in their favour.· Flounders were plentiful, with many undersize fish caught on the ebb tide.· But Grace wouldn't need them to go out to sea on the ebb tide.· He had missed the ebb tide.
· While the Conference met, high spring tides were oozing through the paving of the Piazza San Marco.· Outside, the mob surged around me, retiring and returning like a spring tide.· The highest of the spring tides might wash up all around the houseboat but it would never float again.· They were helped by a Spring tide which caused extensive flooding and rendered all the fords impassable.· A month later in the high spring tides, his body was washed up in Cadgwith Cove.· But next day we were ready to take advantage of the high spring tide and fly.
· Should the current tide turn, we will think about it with great pleasure and renewed confidence.
VERB· The enforced lie-in was welcome; we caught the tide and enjoyed a short, rough crossing to Taransay.· Plenty of work here for thinkers who can catch the political tide.· As the particles catch Lucifer's magnetic field, it is extended into space like a fishing net caught by the tide.
· But the political tide seemed to be flowing in a different direction.· They felt the tide would continue flowing their way.· The tide was flowing strongly his way.· How majestically he stands on one foot in the roiling surf as the tide flows in.· He was in the office each day but the tide of work flowed around him.· There is no doubt about the direction in which the intellectual tide is flowing.· The sun will rise; the tides will flow.· When the tide flows out, the current often flows straight out to sea washing any distressed windsurfer with it.
· It rises with the tide, only no one's so daft as to stay and see how high.· The 10, 000 welfare families are just the latest recruits in the rising tide of local poverty.· Crime, unemployment and homelessness add to the rising tide of despair.· A rising economic tide lifts not just spending but spirits, while a receding tide depresses people.· It is said on the river that a Thames barge, once she has risen with the tide, never sinks completely.· Everything was affected by the rising tide including the growth of moderate, pragmatic Socialism.· Increasingly easy access to credit and lax credit checking procedures by lenders has contributed to the rising tide of debt.
· Through this conservative normativist theory Dicey attempted to stem the tide of government growth in a collectivist direction.· Even the great Chicago fire of 1871 could not stem the tide.· Barnes managed to stem the tide a little by giving Liverpool a genuine attacking outlet.· This illustrates the type of practical public health action that could be taken to stem the tide of obesity.· By the closing rounds he was reduced to throwing wild haymakers in a desperate attempt to stem the tide.· Only one way to stem the tide for Ireland: take out Figo.· Both the Senate and the administration seemed powerless to stem the tide of hysteria.· But even visions of breastfeeding could not stem the tide this time.
· For others it implied that the centuries-old problems of poverty and inequality had been swept away in the tide of prosperity.· And he turned resolutely away and was swept with the tide down the tunnel to the plane.· Then he learnt that she was the man's daughter, and frivolous thoughts were swept away on a tide of sympathy.· He is sweeping along on a tide of revisionism.· We are being swept away on a tide of picaresque Euromovies.· Philip was as reluctant as Henry, but the two Kings were now swept along by the tide of public opinion.
· In promoting recycling as the best answer to waste disposal, environmentalists are therefore swimming against the tides of the market.· A few lawmakers are swimming against the tide.· But things change quickly at Ferrari and, in 1990, he found himself swimming against the political tide.· There was no point in swimming against the tide.· Carey bobbed like jetsam, always awkward even though Ellwood was swimming with the tide.· We find ourselves swimming against the tide.· The Treasury was swimming against the tide. 2.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1the tide the regular rising and falling of the level of the seathe tide is in/out (=the sea is at a high/low level)- A strong wind was now blowing and there was a loud crack of thunder.
- Disadvantages: Lack of volume, thus difficult to sail in all but strong winds.
- Firefighters must contend with steep canyons and the strong winds, not to mention hot and dry conditions.
- In very strong winds the critical place for ground handling is at the tail.
- Rip A strong current, commonly experienced on surf beaches.
- The same materials, thrown into the Martian atmosphere by strong winds, give the Martian sky a pinkish color.
- There was a strong wind blowing from the north.
- Toward late afternoon, a strong wind came up and the sky clouded over.
- Light given out by distant galaxies has to swim against the tide of expansion to get to us.
- There s no point in you tryin to swim against the tide now, is there?
Is the tide going out or coming in? We went for a walk and got cut off by the tide. → high tide(1), low tide2[countable] a current of water caused by the tide: Strong tides make swimming dangerous.3[countable usually singular] the way in which events or people’s opinions are developingtide of With the tide of public opinion against him, the president may lose. It was their first major victory. The tide had turned (=changed). The tide of battle turned against the Mexican army.swim with/against the tide (=support or oppose what most people think)4[countable usually singular] a large amount of something that is increasing and is difficult to controltide of violence/crime etc The crisis prompted a rising tide of protest. She swallowed back a tide of emotion. efforts to stem the tide of hysteria caused by the shootings (=prevent it from getting worse)5[singular] a large number of people or things moving along togethertide of the tide of refugees flowing over the border6Christmastide/eveningtide/morningtide etc old use a particular time of the year or dayCOLLOCATIONSadjectivesthe tide is in (=the sea covers the shore)· You can’t walk on the beach when the tide is in.the tide is out· Let’s go for a walk along the beach while the tide is out.high tide· At high tide the island is completely cut off.low tide· The sands are exposed at low tide.the incoming tide· The box was carried upstream on the incoming tide.the rising tide· The rising tide had begun to fill up the channel.an ebb tide (=the flow of the sea away from the shore)· We sailed out to sea on the ebb tide.a flood tide (=the flow of the sea towards the land)· The wind drove the yacht inland on the flood tide.a spring tide (=a large rise and fall in the level of the sea, that happens when there is a new moon and when there is a full moon)· It must be a spring tide.a neap tide (=a very small rise and fall in the level of the sea, that happens at the first and third quarters of the moon)· Spring tides alternate with neap tides.verbsthe tide comes in (=the sea comes nearer)· Once the tide comes in, the cove is cut off.the tide goes out· They sat on the beach watching the tide going out.the tide turns (=starts coming in or going out)· Soon, the tide would turn and the waves would begin to creep inshore again.be cut off by the tide (=become trapped as the sea rises)· Two anglers had to be rescued after getting cut off by the tide.tide1 nountide2 verb
tidetide2 verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The measures are meant to stem the tide of illegal immigration. The victory turned the tide of the war in North Africa.
The measures are meant to stem the tide of illegal immigration. The victory turned the tide of the war in North Africa.PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tide somebody over (something) phrasal verb to help someone through a difficult period, especially by lending them money: - A strong wind was now blowing and there was a loud crack of thunder.
- Disadvantages: Lack of volume, thus difficult to sail in all but strong winds.
- Firefighters must contend with steep canyons and the strong winds, not to mention hot and dry conditions.
- In very strong winds the critical place for ground handling is at the tail.
- Rip A strong current, commonly experienced on surf beaches.
- The same materials, thrown into the Martian atmosphere by strong winds, give the Martian sky a pinkish color.
- There was a strong wind blowing from the north.
- Toward late afternoon, a strong wind came up and the sky clouded over.
- Light given out by distant galaxies has to swim against the tide of expansion to get to us.
- There s no point in you tryin to swim against the tide now, is there?
Could you lend me £10 to tide me over till next week?