Definition of tide in English:

tide

noun tʌɪdtaɪd

1The alternate rising and falling of the sea, usually twice in each lunar day at a particular place, due to the attraction of the moon and sun.
the changing patterns of the tides
mass noun they were driven on by wind and tide
Example sentencesExamples
- She fell asleep as the tide slowly climbed, gripping the wet sand with her fingers.
- However, while we had been diving, the tide had fallen.
- For instance he learned the effect of the moon on the tides.
- As any diver knows, such tides occur only twice a month.
- Misconceptions about such things as the moon's effect on tides have contributed to lunar mythology.
- The highest high tides, called the semilunar tides, occur twice a month around the times of the full and new moon.
- They must know how the winds and the tides work together.
- The ebb and flow of tides, swinging winds, and rising and falling ocean swells create the changing rhythms of a surfer's life.
- This was a beautiful morning, with a rising tide and no wind.
- A powerful tide is surging through rural India.
- The tide had fallen, which revealed another part of the hidden area.
- Then as the tide turns a surge of muddy water rushes upstream, ever swifter.
- An arrow indicates whether the tide is rising or falling.
- In 1879, a causeway was built to the island, sparing pilgrims and day trippers both the effort of trudging across the sands, and the danger of the fast and powerful local tides.
- But access to the port basin lay through channels where the tide fell 32 feet twice daily.
- Aborigines explain the relationship of the tides and the moon also.
- The vessel departed on the evening tide the following day.
- Sibyl glanced back at the rising and falling tides of the English Channel, and sighed with the grace of a heavy heart.
- The rise and fall of tides vary around the world.
- All day, the Atlantic churned and the tide surged under the narrow strip of land that separates the ocean from the Gulf of Mexico.
1. 1.1 The water as affected by the tide.
  the rising tide covered the wharf
  Example sentencesExamples
  As the tide ebbs the sea water starts to drain from the river, making visible the runs and likely lies of fish just in from the Atlantic.
  Of course the abductee lives in an ramshackle farmhouse on an island that gets surrounded by water as the tides come in.
  Instead the building could straddle it, getting its feet in the water and feeling the tides.
  Basically, it's just a dam built across a bay, which opens as the tide is coming in, and then closes and traps the accumulated water as the tide moves out.
  The structure would be built over the water, allowing the tide to ebb and flow unhindered.
  He related his own experience of how people can get caught out, unaware of the danger because it is the area nearest the shore that gets covered by water first as the tide comes in.
  A spray of water from the incoming tide wets us, waking me up from whatever crazy thoughts were consuming me.
  They have so many different fish to go for and the fish fight so hard in the tide and shallow water.
  This is due to strong tides carrying goodie-laden water to them.
  Weights for bottom fishing need not be too heavy as most of the fishing is done in less that fifteen feet of water and the local tides are not very fierce.
  After a lot of messing around in the sand and seeing who could get the furthest into the water before the tide came back in, we were completely soaked and decided to crash at my place for the night.
  The construction of canals causes an increase in the velocity of incoming tides and also outgoing water, therefore increasing the risk of erosion.
  On another day, light and variable winds, combined with strong tides, affected competition.
  This is to say that if you leave a dingy in shallow water and the tide goes out, leaving your boat on the sand, you have committed an offence which carries a fine.
  They were sitting at the beach, watching the tide as it covered them up to about the waist in its waves every few seconds, and watching the sunset.
  The fast tides and coloured waters of the Severn Estuary pull cod in like bargain hunters to the sales.
  When the tide rises and water moves up the channel, the basin fills, and small fish and larvae (food for the birds) enter the pond.
  As they go farther into the water, the tide pushes them downstream.
  When the biplane was pushed out of the hangar, the incoming tide covered the tidal flat making it necessary to cancel the flight.
  Most tope fishing is done either by casting baits uptide away from the boat, or deep dropping baits in areas of fast tides and deep water.
  Synonyms
  tidal flow, ebb and flow, flood, water, tidewater, tide race, ebb, surge, current, stream, movement
2. 1.2 A powerful surge of feeling or trend of events.
  he drifted into sleep on a tide of euphoria
  he could not control the growing tide of violence
  Example sentencesExamples
  Generally, only those Greek cafes in major recreational and tourist regions have survived the sweeping tide of change.
  Kimmel believes more agents will mean more arrests and more progress against the tide of illegal immigration.
  Although increasingly stranded politically by the ebbing tide of socialism, he has refused to tone down his rabble-rousing rhetoric.
  Whether alive or dead, young or old, black or white - the tribute tide has surged.
  If we were to reverse the tide of depression, we needed a society that was well informed about depression.
  He's a little man swept up in the tide of big events.
  This alliance of irreconcilable economic ideologies was bound to sunder and cede to a powerful tide of neo-liberalism.
  Ministers hoping to reverse the tide of binge-drinking believe it will bring an end to the 11 pm rush.
  Mr Thomas is making vigorous efforts to reverse the tide of abuse that has been coming his way recently.
  He warned that the tide of economic and social change would leave Swindon washed up, stranded and decaying if progress was not made with plans to overhaul the centre soon.
  And they are right that the tide of globalization, powerful as the engines driving it may be, can be turned back.
  The tide of events indeed turned in favour of peace.
  The tide of new developments has seen councillors warning of a melt-down for the town's overstretched infrastructure.
  Kerry has pledged to reverse the tide of modern economics by doing exactly this.
  I stared at him almost speechless as a tide of emotion surged to me.
  The film's portrayal of a powerless woman dragged along by the tide of events doesn't lend itself to edge of the seat plot twists.
  It was another bizarre sight but even the half-time whistle, once it finally came, did little to stem the tide of extraordinary events.
  Only time will tell how long it can maintain its resilience against the powerful tide of the free market.
  On both these occasions, though for very different reasons, the mourners and the mourned were swept together by a powerful tide of emotion.
  We knew, though, that we were a minority swimming against a powerful tide of patriotic pomposity.
  Synonyms
  course, movement, direction, trend, current, drift, run, turn, tendency, tenor, swing

verb tʌɪdtaɪd

archaic

1no object, with adverbial of direction Drift with or as if with the tide.
1. 1.1 (of a ship) work in or out of harbour with the help of the tide.

Phrasal Verbs

tide someone over

Help someone through a difficult period, especially with financial assistance.
she needed a small loan to tide her over
Example sentencesExamples
- We need to get the resources where we can to tide us over until the nurses come through the system.
- To tide him over financially, he took a job with a radio station, and found that he had a natural flair for the microphone and he soon hosted his own show on Talk Radio.
- In the meantime, Boyle also asked for another loan to tide him over.
- The pre-Christmas shopping frenzy shifts into high gear this week, with many families relying on their credit cards to tide them over this expensive period.
- But here's a little something to tide you over for a bit.
- ‘My husband took redundancy last year and that helped tide us over,’ she said.
- This is to tide them over for a period, unless they get work.
- I knew that I had food in the case, as we always pack some to tide us over until we find a food shop.
- For the landed gentry, it was usually a snack to tide you over between luncheon and a late dinner.
- Mr Keating, who has two teenage children, says the minimum payouts he and his fellow employees will receive will only tide them over while they look for another job.
Synonyms
sustain, keep someone going, keep someone's head above water, see someone through

Derivatives

tideless

adjective ˈtʌɪdləsˈtaɪdləs

Many seas are tideless, and the waters of some are saline only in a very slight degree.
Example sentencesExamples
- Like everything else in the picture, the water on which the barge floats is serene and unruffled, as in a tideless sea or lagoon.
- In the Prime Minister's mental landscape Britain's economy is a tideless sea.
- The seas around Malta are virtually tideless and currents are very rare in summer.

Origin

Old English tīd 'time, period, era', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tijd and German Zeit, also to time. The sense relating to the sea dates from late Middle English.

In Old English a tide was a period or season, a sense surviving in Eastertide and Shrovetide, and it was not used in connection with the sea until the later medieval period. The saying time and tide wait for no man originally referred just to time, with tide used as a repetition of the sense to add emphasis. Despite the great difference in their contemporary meanings, tidy (Middle English) is from tide. Right up to the early 18th century it meant ‘timely, seasonable, opportune’, and acquired its current sense via the uses ‘attractive, good-looking’ and ‘good, pleasing’ around 1700. Perhaps based on tidy is the verb titivate which in the early 19th century was also spelt tidivate.

Rhymes

abide, applied, aside, astride, backslide, beside, bestride, betide, bide, bride, chide, Clyde, cockeyed, coincide, collide, confide, cried, decide, divide, dried, elide, five-a-side, glide, guide, hide, hollow-eyed, I'd, implied, lied, misguide, nationwide, nide, offside, onside, outride, outside, pan-fried, pied, pie-eyed, pitch-side, popeyed, pride, provide, ride, Said, shied, side, slide, sloe-eyed, snide, square-eyed, starry-eyed, statewide, Strathclyde, stride, subdivide, subside, tried, undyed, wall-eyed, wide, worldwide

Definition of tide in US English:

tide

nountīdtaɪd

1The alternate rising and falling of the sea, usually twice in each lunar day at a particular place, due to the attraction of the moon and sun.
the changing patterns of the tides
they were driven on by wind and tide
Example sentencesExamples
- They must know how the winds and the tides work together.
- The rise and fall of tides vary around the world.
- Aborigines explain the relationship of the tides and the moon also.
- A powerful tide is surging through rural India.
- The tide had fallen, which revealed another part of the hidden area.
- The highest high tides, called the semilunar tides, occur twice a month around the times of the full and new moon.
- The ebb and flow of tides, swinging winds, and rising and falling ocean swells create the changing rhythms of a surfer's life.
- Then as the tide turns a surge of muddy water rushes upstream, ever swifter.
- She fell asleep as the tide slowly climbed, gripping the wet sand with her fingers.
- However, while we had been diving, the tide had fallen.
- As any diver knows, such tides occur only twice a month.
- This was a beautiful morning, with a rising tide and no wind.
- In 1879, a causeway was built to the island, sparing pilgrims and day trippers both the effort of trudging across the sands, and the danger of the fast and powerful local tides.
- An arrow indicates whether the tide is rising or falling.
- But access to the port basin lay through channels where the tide fell 32 feet twice daily.
- For instance he learned the effect of the moon on the tides.
- Sibyl glanced back at the rising and falling tides of the English Channel, and sighed with the grace of a heavy heart.
- Misconceptions about such things as the moon's effect on tides have contributed to lunar mythology.
- All day, the Atlantic churned and the tide surged under the narrow strip of land that separates the ocean from the Gulf of Mexico.
- The vessel departed on the evening tide the following day.
1. 1.1 The water as affected by the tide.
  the rising tide covered the wharf
  Example sentencesExamples
  They were sitting at the beach, watching the tide as it covered them up to about the waist in its waves every few seconds, and watching the sunset.
  The fast tides and coloured waters of the Severn Estuary pull cod in like bargain hunters to the sales.
  Basically, it's just a dam built across a bay, which opens as the tide is coming in, and then closes and traps the accumulated water as the tide moves out.
  When the biplane was pushed out of the hangar, the incoming tide covered the tidal flat making it necessary to cancel the flight.
  Most tope fishing is done either by casting baits uptide away from the boat, or deep dropping baits in areas of fast tides and deep water.
  This is due to strong tides carrying goodie-laden water to them.
  The construction of canals causes an increase in the velocity of incoming tides and also outgoing water, therefore increasing the risk of erosion.
  Weights for bottom fishing need not be too heavy as most of the fishing is done in less that fifteen feet of water and the local tides are not very fierce.
  As they go farther into the water, the tide pushes them downstream.
  Of course the abductee lives in an ramshackle farmhouse on an island that gets surrounded by water as the tides come in.
  As the tide ebbs the sea water starts to drain from the river, making visible the runs and likely lies of fish just in from the Atlantic.
  Instead the building could straddle it, getting its feet in the water and feeling the tides.
  They have so many different fish to go for and the fish fight so hard in the tide and shallow water.
  After a lot of messing around in the sand and seeing who could get the furthest into the water before the tide came back in, we were completely soaked and decided to crash at my place for the night.
  This is to say that if you leave a dingy in shallow water and the tide goes out, leaving your boat on the sand, you have committed an offence which carries a fine.
  The structure would be built over the water, allowing the tide to ebb and flow unhindered.
  When the tide rises and water moves up the channel, the basin fills, and small fish and larvae (food for the birds) enter the pond.
  He related his own experience of how people can get caught out, unaware of the danger because it is the area nearest the shore that gets covered by water first as the tide comes in.
  A spray of water from the incoming tide wets us, waking me up from whatever crazy thoughts were consuming me.
  On another day, light and variable winds, combined with strong tides, affected competition.
  Synonyms
  tidal flow, ebb and flow, flood, water, tidewater, tide race, ebb, surge, current, stream, movement
2. 1.2 A powerful surge of feeling or trend of events.
  he drifted into sleep on a tide of euphoria
  he could not control the growing tide of violence
  Example sentencesExamples
  Mr Thomas is making vigorous efforts to reverse the tide of abuse that has been coming his way recently.
  Ministers hoping to reverse the tide of binge-drinking believe it will bring an end to the 11 pm rush.
  On both these occasions, though for very different reasons, the mourners and the mourned were swept together by a powerful tide of emotion.
  Kerry has pledged to reverse the tide of modern economics by doing exactly this.
  Only time will tell how long it can maintain its resilience against the powerful tide of the free market.
  He warned that the tide of economic and social change would leave Swindon washed up, stranded and decaying if progress was not made with plans to overhaul the centre soon.
  Kimmel believes more agents will mean more arrests and more progress against the tide of illegal immigration.
  The film's portrayal of a powerless woman dragged along by the tide of events doesn't lend itself to edge of the seat plot twists.
  Although increasingly stranded politically by the ebbing tide of socialism, he has refused to tone down his rabble-rousing rhetoric.
  We knew, though, that we were a minority swimming against a powerful tide of patriotic pomposity.
  It was another bizarre sight but even the half-time whistle, once it finally came, did little to stem the tide of extraordinary events.
  The tide of events indeed turned in favour of peace.
  This alliance of irreconcilable economic ideologies was bound to sunder and cede to a powerful tide of neo-liberalism.
  If we were to reverse the tide of depression, we needed a society that was well informed about depression.
  Generally, only those Greek cafes in major recreational and tourist regions have survived the sweeping tide of change.
  He's a little man swept up in the tide of big events.
  Whether alive or dead, young or old, black or white - the tribute tide has surged.
  I stared at him almost speechless as a tide of emotion surged to me.
  And they are right that the tide of globalization, powerful as the engines driving it may be, can be turned back.
  The tide of new developments has seen councillors warning of a melt-down for the town's overstretched infrastructure.
  Synonyms
  course, movement, direction, trend, current, drift, run, turn, tendency, tenor, swing

verbtīdtaɪd

[no object]archaic

1Drift with or as if with the tide.
1. 1.1 (of a ship) float or drift in or out of a harbor by taking advantage of favoring tides.

Phrasal Verbs

tide someone over

Help someone through a difficult period, especially with financial assistance.
she needed a small loan to tide her over
Example sentencesExamples
- For the landed gentry, it was usually a snack to tide you over between luncheon and a late dinner.
- In the meantime, Boyle also asked for another loan to tide him over.
- Mr Keating, who has two teenage children, says the minimum payouts he and his fellow employees will receive will only tide them over while they look for another job.
- We need to get the resources where we can to tide us over until the nurses come through the system.
- The pre-Christmas shopping frenzy shifts into high gear this week, with many families relying on their credit cards to tide them over this expensive period.
- I knew that I had food in the case, as we always pack some to tide us over until we find a food shop.
- But here's a little something to tide you over for a bit.
- This is to tide them over for a period, unless they get work.
- To tide him over financially, he took a job with a radio station, and found that he had a natural flair for the microphone and he soon hosted his own show on Talk Radio.
- ‘My husband took redundancy last year and that helped tide us over,’ she said.
Synonyms
sustain, keep someone going, keep someone's head above water, see someone through

Origin

Old English tīd ‘time, period, era’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tijd and German Zeit, also to time. The sense relating to the sea dates from late Middle English.

单词	tide
释义	Definition of tide in English: tide noun tʌɪdtaɪd 1The alternate rising and falling of the sea, usually twice in each lunar day at a particular place, due to the attraction of the moon and sun. the changing patterns of the tides mass noun they were driven on by wind and tide Example sentencesExamples She fell asleep as the tide slowly climbed, gripping the wet sand with her fingers. However, while we had been diving, the tide had fallen. For instance he learned the effect of the moon on the tides. As any diver knows, such tides occur only twice a month. Misconceptions about such things as the moon's effect on tides have contributed to lunar mythology. The highest high tides, called the semilunar tides, occur twice a month around the times of the full and new moon. They must know how the winds and the tides work together. The ebb and flow of tides, swinging winds, and rising and falling ocean swells create the changing rhythms of a surfer's life. This was a beautiful morning, with a rising tide and no wind. A powerful tide is surging through rural India. The tide had fallen, which revealed another part of the hidden area. Then as the tide turns a surge of muddy water rushes upstream, ever swifter. An arrow indicates whether the tide is rising or falling. In 1879, a causeway was built to the island, sparing pilgrims and day trippers both the effort of trudging across the sands, and the danger of the fast and powerful local tides. But access to the port basin lay through channels where the tide fell 32 feet twice daily. Aborigines explain the relationship of the tides and the moon also. The vessel departed on the evening tide the following day. Sibyl glanced back at the rising and falling tides of the English Channel, and sighed with the grace of a heavy heart. The rise and fall of tides vary around the world. All day, the Atlantic churned and the tide surged under the narrow strip of land that separates the ocean from the Gulf of Mexico. 1.1 The water as affected by the tide. the rising tide covered the wharf Example sentencesExamples As the tide ebbs the sea water starts to drain from the river, making visible the runs and likely lies of fish just in from the Atlantic. Of course the abductee lives in an ramshackle farmhouse on an island that gets surrounded by water as the tides come in. Instead the building could straddle it, getting its feet in the water and feeling the tides. Basically, it's just a dam built across a bay, which opens as the tide is coming in, and then closes and traps the accumulated water as the tide moves out. The structure would be built over the water, allowing the tide to ebb and flow unhindered. He related his own experience of how people can get caught out, unaware of the danger because it is the area nearest the shore that gets covered by water first as the tide comes in. A spray of water from the incoming tide wets us, waking me up from whatever crazy thoughts were consuming me. They have so many different fish to go for and the fish fight so hard in the tide and shallow water. This is due to strong tides carrying goodie-laden water to them. Weights for bottom fishing need not be too heavy as most of the fishing is done in less that fifteen feet of water and the local tides are not very fierce. After a lot of messing around in the sand and seeing who could get the furthest into the water before the tide came back in, we were completely soaked and decided to crash at my place for the night. The construction of canals causes an increase in the velocity of incoming tides and also outgoing water, therefore increasing the risk of erosion. On another day, light and variable winds, combined with strong tides, affected competition. This is to say that if you leave a dingy in shallow water and the tide goes out, leaving your boat on the sand, you have committed an offence which carries a fine. They were sitting at the beach, watching the tide as it covered them up to about the waist in its waves every few seconds, and watching the sunset. The fast tides and coloured waters of the Severn Estuary pull cod in like bargain hunters to the sales. When the tide rises and water moves up the channel, the basin fills, and small fish and larvae (food for the birds) enter the pond. As they go farther into the water, the tide pushes them downstream. When the biplane was pushed out of the hangar, the incoming tide covered the tidal flat making it necessary to cancel the flight. Most tope fishing is done either by casting baits uptide away from the boat, or deep dropping baits in areas of fast tides and deep water. Synonyms tidal flow, ebb and flow, flood, water, tidewater, tide race, ebb, surge, current, stream, movement 1.2 A powerful surge of feeling or trend of events. he drifted into sleep on a tide of euphoria he could not control the growing tide of violence Example sentencesExamples Generally, only those Greek cafes in major recreational and tourist regions have survived the sweeping tide of change. Kimmel believes more agents will mean more arrests and more progress against the tide of illegal immigration. Although increasingly stranded politically by the ebbing tide of socialism, he has refused to tone down his rabble-rousing rhetoric. Whether alive or dead, young or old, black or white - the tribute tide has surged. If we were to reverse the tide of depression, we needed a society that was well informed about depression. He's a little man swept up in the tide of big events. This alliance of irreconcilable economic ideologies was bound to sunder and cede to a powerful tide of neo-liberalism. Ministers hoping to reverse the tide of binge-drinking believe it will bring an end to the 11 pm rush. Mr Thomas is making vigorous efforts to reverse the tide of abuse that has been coming his way recently. He warned that the tide of economic and social change would leave Swindon washed up, stranded and decaying if progress was not made with plans to overhaul the centre soon. And they are right that the tide of globalization, powerful as the engines driving it may be, can be turned back. The tide of events indeed turned in favour of peace. The tide of new developments has seen councillors warning of a melt-down for the town's overstretched infrastructure. Kerry has pledged to reverse the tide of modern economics by doing exactly this. I stared at him almost speechless as a tide of emotion surged to me. The film's portrayal of a powerless woman dragged along by the tide of events doesn't lend itself to edge of the seat plot twists. It was another bizarre sight but even the half-time whistle, once it finally came, did little to stem the tide of extraordinary events. Only time will tell how long it can maintain its resilience against the powerful tide of the free market. On both these occasions, though for very different reasons, the mourners and the mourned were swept together by a powerful tide of emotion. We knew, though, that we were a minority swimming against a powerful tide of patriotic pomposity. Synonyms course, movement, direction, trend, current, drift, run, turn, tendency, tenor, swing verb tʌɪdtaɪd archaic 1no object, with adverbial of direction Drift with or as if with the tide. 1.1 (of a ship) work in or out of harbour with the help of the tide. Phrasal Verbs tide someone over Help someone through a difficult period, especially with financial assistance. she needed a small loan to tide her over Example sentencesExamples We need to get the resources where we can to tide us over until the nurses come through the system. To tide him over financially, he took a job with a radio station, and found that he had a natural flair for the microphone and he soon hosted his own show on Talk Radio. In the meantime, Boyle also asked for another loan to tide him over. The pre-Christmas shopping frenzy shifts into high gear this week, with many families relying on their credit cards to tide them over this expensive period. But here's a little something to tide you over for a bit. ‘My husband took redundancy last year and that helped tide us over,’ she said. This is to tide them over for a period, unless they get work. I knew that I had food in the case, as we always pack some to tide us over until we find a food shop. For the landed gentry, it was usually a snack to tide you over between luncheon and a late dinner. Mr Keating, who has two teenage children, says the minimum payouts he and his fellow employees will receive will only tide them over while they look for another job. Synonyms sustain, keep someone going, keep someone's head above water, see someone through Derivatives tideless adjective ˈtʌɪdləsˈtaɪdləs Many seas are tideless, and the waters of some are saline only in a very slight degree. Example sentencesExamples Like everything else in the picture, the water on which the barge floats is serene and unruffled, as in a tideless sea or lagoon. In the Prime Minister's mental landscape Britain's economy is a tideless sea. The seas around Malta are virtually tideless and currents are very rare in summer. Origin Old English tīd 'time, period, era', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tijd and German Zeit, also to time. The sense relating to the sea dates from late Middle English. In Old English a tide was a period or season, a sense surviving in Eastertide and Shrovetide, and it was not used in connection with the sea until the later medieval period. The saying time and tide wait for no man originally referred just to time, with tide used as a repetition of the sense to add emphasis. Despite the great difference in their contemporary meanings, tidy (Middle English) is from tide. Right up to the early 18th century it meant ‘timely, seasonable, opportune’, and acquired its current sense via the uses ‘attractive, good-looking’ and ‘good, pleasing’ around 1700. Perhaps based on tidy is the verb titivate which in the early 19th century was also spelt tidivate. Rhymes abide, applied, aside, astride, backslide, beside, bestride, betide, bide, bride, chide, Clyde, cockeyed, coincide, collide, confide, cried, decide, divide, dried, elide, five-a-side, glide, guide, hide, hollow-eyed, I'd, implied, lied, misguide, nationwide, nide, offside, onside, outride, outside, pan-fried, pied, pie-eyed, pitch-side, popeyed, pride, provide, ride, Said, shied, side, slide, sloe-eyed, snide, square-eyed, starry-eyed, statewide, Strathclyde, stride, subdivide, subside, tried, undyed, wall-eyed, wide, worldwide noun.1 phr.v. Definition of tide in US English: tide nountīdtaɪd 1The alternate rising and falling of the sea, usually twice in each lunar day at a particular place, due to the attraction of the moon and sun. the changing patterns of the tides they were driven on by wind and tide Example sentencesExamples They must know how the winds and the tides work together. The rise and fall of tides vary around the world. Aborigines explain the relationship of the tides and the moon also. A powerful tide is surging through rural India. The tide had fallen, which revealed another part of the hidden area. The highest high tides, called the semilunar tides, occur twice a month around the times of the full and new moon. The ebb and flow of tides, swinging winds, and rising and falling ocean swells create the changing rhythms of a surfer's life. Then as the tide turns a surge of muddy water rushes upstream, ever swifter. She fell asleep as the tide slowly climbed, gripping the wet sand with her fingers. However, while we had been diving, the tide had fallen. As any diver knows, such tides occur only twice a month. This was a beautiful morning, with a rising tide and no wind. In 1879, a causeway was built to the island, sparing pilgrims and day trippers both the effort of trudging across the sands, and the danger of the fast and powerful local tides. An arrow indicates whether the tide is rising or falling. But access to the port basin lay through channels where the tide fell 32 feet twice daily. For instance he learned the effect of the moon on the tides. Sibyl glanced back at the rising and falling tides of the English Channel, and sighed with the grace of a heavy heart. Misconceptions about such things as the moon's effect on tides have contributed to lunar mythology. All day, the Atlantic churned and the tide surged under the narrow strip of land that separates the ocean from the Gulf of Mexico. The vessel departed on the evening tide the following day. 1.1 The water as affected by the tide. the rising tide covered the wharf Example sentencesExamples They were sitting at the beach, watching the tide as it covered them up to about the waist in its waves every few seconds, and watching the sunset. The fast tides and coloured waters of the Severn Estuary pull cod in like bargain hunters to the sales. Basically, it's just a dam built across a bay, which opens as the tide is coming in, and then closes and traps the accumulated water as the tide moves out. When the biplane was pushed out of the hangar, the incoming tide covered the tidal flat making it necessary to cancel the flight. Most tope fishing is done either by casting baits uptide away from the boat, or deep dropping baits in areas of fast tides and deep water. This is due to strong tides carrying goodie-laden water to them. The construction of canals causes an increase in the velocity of incoming tides and also outgoing water, therefore increasing the risk of erosion. Weights for bottom fishing need not be too heavy as most of the fishing is done in less that fifteen feet of water and the local tides are not very fierce. As they go farther into the water, the tide pushes them downstream. Of course the abductee lives in an ramshackle farmhouse on an island that gets surrounded by water as the tides come in. As the tide ebbs the sea water starts to drain from the river, making visible the runs and likely lies of fish just in from the Atlantic. Instead the building could straddle it, getting its feet in the water and feeling the tides. They have so many different fish to go for and the fish fight so hard in the tide and shallow water. After a lot of messing around in the sand and seeing who could get the furthest into the water before the tide came back in, we were completely soaked and decided to crash at my place for the night. This is to say that if you leave a dingy in shallow water and the tide goes out, leaving your boat on the sand, you have committed an offence which carries a fine. The structure would be built over the water, allowing the tide to ebb and flow unhindered. When the tide rises and water moves up the channel, the basin fills, and small fish and larvae (food for the birds) enter the pond. He related his own experience of how people can get caught out, unaware of the danger because it is the area nearest the shore that gets covered by water first as the tide comes in. A spray of water from the incoming tide wets us, waking me up from whatever crazy thoughts were consuming me. On another day, light and variable winds, combined with strong tides, affected competition. Synonyms tidal flow, ebb and flow, flood, water, tidewater, tide race, ebb, surge, current, stream, movement 1.2 A powerful surge of feeling or trend of events. he drifted into sleep on a tide of euphoria he could not control the growing tide of violence Example sentencesExamples Mr Thomas is making vigorous efforts to reverse the tide of abuse that has been coming his way recently. Ministers hoping to reverse the tide of binge-drinking believe it will bring an end to the 11 pm rush. On both these occasions, though for very different reasons, the mourners and the mourned were swept together by a powerful tide of emotion. Kerry has pledged to reverse the tide of modern economics by doing exactly this. Only time will tell how long it can maintain its resilience against the powerful tide of the free market. He warned that the tide of economic and social change would leave Swindon washed up, stranded and decaying if progress was not made with plans to overhaul the centre soon. Kimmel believes more agents will mean more arrests and more progress against the tide of illegal immigration. The film's portrayal of a powerless woman dragged along by the tide of events doesn't lend itself to edge of the seat plot twists. Although increasingly stranded politically by the ebbing tide of socialism, he has refused to tone down his rabble-rousing rhetoric. We knew, though, that we were a minority swimming against a powerful tide of patriotic pomposity. It was another bizarre sight but even the half-time whistle, once it finally came, did little to stem the tide of extraordinary events. The tide of events indeed turned in favour of peace. This alliance of irreconcilable economic ideologies was bound to sunder and cede to a powerful tide of neo-liberalism. If we were to reverse the tide of depression, we needed a society that was well informed about depression. Generally, only those Greek cafes in major recreational and tourist regions have survived the sweeping tide of change. He's a little man swept up in the tide of big events. Whether alive or dead, young or old, black or white - the tribute tide has surged. I stared at him almost speechless as a tide of emotion surged to me. And they are right that the tide of globalization, powerful as the engines driving it may be, can be turned back. The tide of new developments has seen councillors warning of a melt-down for the town's overstretched infrastructure. Synonyms course, movement, direction, trend, current, drift, run, turn, tendency, tenor, swing verbtīdtaɪd [no object]archaic 1Drift with or as if with the tide. 1.1 (of a ship) float or drift in or out of a harbor by taking advantage of favoring tides. Phrasal Verbs tide someone over Help someone through a difficult period, especially with financial assistance. she needed a small loan to tide her over Example sentencesExamples For the landed gentry, it was usually a snack to tide you over between luncheon and a late dinner. In the meantime, Boyle also asked for another loan to tide him over. Mr Keating, who has two teenage children, says the minimum payouts he and his fellow employees will receive will only tide them over while they look for another job. We need to get the resources where we can to tide us over until the nurses come through the system. The pre-Christmas shopping frenzy shifts into high gear this week, with many families relying on their credit cards to tide them over this expensive period. I knew that I had food in the case, as we always pack some to tide us over until we find a food shop. But here's a little something to tide you over for a bit. This is to tide them over for a period, unless they get work. To tide him over financially, he took a job with a radio station, and found that he had a natural flair for the microphone and he soon hosted his own show on Talk Radio. ‘My husband took redundancy last year and that helped tide us over,’ she said. Synonyms sustain, keep someone going, keep someone's head above water, see someone through Origin Old English tīd ‘time, period, era’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tijd and German Zeit, also to time. The sense relating to the sea dates from late Middle English. noun.1 phr.v.
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