tide¹ /tīd/

1. Ebb and flow, esp of the sea twice daily, caused by the gravitational pull of the sun and moon
2. A time of ebbing, of flowing, or both
3. A sudden access or flood of feeling, etc
4. A time or season (archaic or poetic)
5. A festival (archaic or poetic)
6. Opportunity (archaic)
7. A trend
8. Sea-water (poetic)
9. A flow
10. A river, river water, or current (poetic)
11. Floodtide

Denoting a time or season (usu attached to a church festival, as in Christmas-tide, Easter-tide)

1. To carry by, or as if by, the tide
2. To effect by means of the tide

1. To run like the tides
2. To make one's way by taking advantage of the tides, to be carried by the tide (also transitive verb with it)

tīdˈal adjective

1. Of, depending on or regulated by the tide
2. Flowing and ebbing

tīdˈally adverb

tideˈless adjective

tidal basin noun

A basin or dock that fills at high tide

tidal flow noun

The regulated movement of traffic in both directions along a multi-laned road, the numbers of lanes for travel in each direction being governed by the amount of traffic travelling in that direction

tidal power noun

(the generation of electricity by harnessing) the energy of tidal flows

tidal wave noun

1. A huge wave caused by the tides
2. Improperly, a huge wave started by an earthquake and running on with its own momentum (see tsunami)
3. A widespread demonstration of public opinion, feeling, etc
4. The tidewave

tide gate noun

A gate that admits water at floodtide and retains it at ebb

tide gauge noun

An instrument for registering the state of the tide continuously

tideˈland noun (N American)

Land that is submerged at high tide

tide lock noun

A lock by which ships may pass out or in at all times of the tide

tideˈmark noun

1. A line on the shore made by the tide at the water's highest point
2. A marker indicating the highest point reached by the tide
3. A mark of the limit of washing (joc; figurative)

tideˈmill noun

A mill with a water wheel moved by tidewater

tide race noun

A swift tidal current

tide rip noun

1. Disturbed sea due to currents
2. A tidal wave

tidesˈman noun

A customs officer who waited the arrival of ships (orig coming in with the tide)

tide table noun

A table of times of high tide

tideˈwaiter noun

1. A tidesman
2. A person who waits to see how things go before acting

tideˈwaitership noun

tideˈwater noun

1. Water brought by the tide
2. River water affected by the tide (US)
3. Coastal land, seaboard (US)

tideˈwave noun

The tide regarded as a wave passing round the earth

tideˈway noun

A track followed by the tide, esp a channel through which there is a strong current or tide

tide over

To carry (someone) over, or (old) to get over (a critical or difficult period)

tide² /tīd/ (archaic)

To happen

• dimidiations
• dimin.
• diminish
• diminishable
• diminished
• diminished responsibility
• decession
• decessions
• decheances
• dechristianisation
• dechristianise
• dechristianised
• dechristianises
• dechristianising
• dechristianization
• dechristianize
• dechristianized
• dechristianizes
• dechristianizing
• deci-
• deciare
• deciares
• decibel
• decibels
• decidable