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单词 night-tide
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night-tiden.

Brit. /ˈnʌɪttʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈnaɪtˌtaɪd/
Forms: see night n. and tide n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: night n., tide n.
Etymology: < night n. + tide n. Compare Middle Low German nachttīt, Middle High German nahtzīt (German Nachtzeit), Old Swedish nattatidh (Swedish nattetid), Danish nattetid.
1. The time of night; night-time. Now archaic.
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the world > time > day and night > night > [noun]
nighteOE
nightertalec1300
darkc1400
nightertimec1425
night-timec1430
night-tidea1500
night-season1530
darkmans?1536
Nox1567
moonshine1652
darkie?1738
the watches of the night1826
nite1928
bat-flight1934
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 860 Sche wolde..Upon hire goddes grace abide, To serven him the nyhtes tide.]
a1500 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Chetham) l. 3819 As Sabere slepud a nyght tide, Hym thought, he sye Beues ride.
1562 T. Sternhold et al. Whole Bk. Psalmes lxiii. 146 When as in bed, I think on thee, and eke all the night tide For vnder couert of thy winges, thou art my ioyfull guyde.
1700 C. Cibber King Richard III iv. 39 And, hark thee, in the night-tide throw 'em down The Thames; once in, they'll find the way to th'bottom.
a1849 E. A. Poe Annabel Lee in Coll. Wks. (1969) I. 477 All the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling..my bride.
1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. xii. 224 Ill too are the winds of the night-tide.
1914 H. D. Shawcross Nature & Idealist 37 Come back with me again to the star-lit night-tide, when the winter snow lies weirdly.
1922 E. H. Hickey Devotional Poems 75 The Spirit commended to God..And the sun gone away from the heaven and the night-tide come back.
2. A tide of the sea occurring at night.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun]
counter-tide1570
night-tide1600
day tidea1615
cross tide1675
ocean tide1771
1600 N. Breton Strange Fortunes Two Excellent Princes 41 Finding a shippe ready to put to sea for that countrey, [they] stole awaie in a night tide, and with a merrie Gale soone gat to the shore.
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 54 But then, when the night-Tide begins to flow, the Current turns, and runs Westward all night.
1759 C. Saunders Let. 5 Sept. in R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. (1790) II. 374 To proceed, with the first fair wind and night-tide, above the town of Quebec.
1777 Philos. Trans. 1776 (Royal Soc.) 66 448 A notion..that the night-tide rises higher than the day-tide.
1807 C. Smith Beachy Head 8 The night tide Bears a dark vessel on, whose hull and sails Mark her a coaster.
1853 J. Stevenson tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. 575 The night-tide of the ocean had drifted in a beam of wood.
1880 Scribner's Monthly Aug. 492/2 The night-tides he finds differ from the day—the flood at night being much stronger than at other times.
1936 Ecology 17 167 Spawned during the day, as they are, the eggs are washed by the night tide less than twelve hours later.
1988 R. Pickernell Yanto's Summer (BNC) 22 That was a pretty big un' for a night tide, I heard it was a twenty seven footer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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