| 单词 | moon-tide |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoon-tide moon-tide n. (a) poetic the time when the moon is illuminated, night-time; (b) a tide caused by the gravitational pull of the moon on the sea. ΚΠ 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 282 In rushes folly with a full-moon tide.] 1802 Americana ii. 39 My once lov'd moon-tide shade. 1826 A. W. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville 179 Those were her shady halls at high moon-tide. 1880 Philos. Trans. 1879 (Royal Soc.) 170 465 It is not at first sight obvious how it is physically possible that the sun should exercise an influence on the moon-tide, and the moon on the sun-tide, so as..to cause tidal friction. 1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans ix. 291 The crest, or bulge, of the moon tide is at right angles to the tide wave created by the sun. < as lemmas |
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