| 单词 | mid-tide |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmid-tide mid-tide adj. and n. (a) adj. situated or occurring between high- and low-water marks; (b) n. the tide midway between high tide and low tide; the time of this; the level or height midway between high- and low-water marks. ΚΠ 1852 J. Wiggins Pract. Embanking Lands 86 Between the mid-tide level and the low-water level of neaps. 1855 Rep. Explor. & Surv. Route for Railroad Mississippi River to Pacific Ocean (U.S. War Dept.) V. ii. 238 The comparison of this observation with the stationary barometer at Benicia, gives, as the altitude of the station, forty-six feet above mid-tide. 1871 A. C. Swinburne Songs before Sunrise 237 A thousand spear-heads..Wave as with swing of the sea When the mid tide sways at its height. 1894 Catholic World July 485 Reaching an altitude of 8,333 feet above the midtide level of the Gulf of Mexico. 1969 A. Wheeler Fishes Brit. Isles & N.-W. Europe 505/1 Montagu's sea snail is a more littoral species, found on the shore up to mid-tide level. 1996 Amer. Scientist Mar. 154/1 The storm surge..arrived at mid-tide. < as lemmas |
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