tidenoun
uk/taɪd/us/taɪd/tide noun (SEA)
B2 [ C ] the rise and fall of the sea that happens twice every day:
high/low tide
The tide is out/in.
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- Most people are completely clueless about tide directions and weather conditions.
- The tide comes in very quickly here and you can soon find yourself stranded.
- Is the tide coming in or going out?
- You can only see the beach when the tide is out.
- The boat was swept out to sea by the tide.
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Floods, tides & currents
- backwash
- change
- come
- current
- ebb
- ebb tide
- eddy
- flooded
- flooding
- floodplain
- high water mark
- inundate
- low-water mark
- neap tide
- overfall
- undertow
- water
- waterlogged
- watermark
- whirlpool
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tide noun (CHANGE)
[ S ] literary a noticeable change in a situation or increase in a particular type of behaviour:
We must look for ways of stemming (= stopping) the rising tide of protest.
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Change and changes
- a change is as good as a rest idiom
- adjustment
- alteration
- blip
- changeover
- drift
- ebb
- fluctuate
- gradation
- metamorphosis
- modulate
- paradigm shift
- perversion
- punctuated equilibrium
- sea change
- shake-up
- speciation
- step change
- transfigure
- twist
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Idiom(s)
go/swim against the tide
go/swim with the tide