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tide
I. \ˈtīd\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English tyde, tide time, from Old English tīd; akin to Old Frisian & Old Saxon tīd time, Old High German zīt, Old Norse tīthr time, Greek daiesthai to distribute, divide, Sanskrit dayate he apportions, dāti he cuts, divides, mows; basic meaning: to divide
1.
a. obsolete : a space of time : while, period
b. archaic : a particular point in time : a definite moment : occasion
c. : fit or opportune time : opportunity
d.
(1) : an ecclesiastical anniversary or religious festival
(2) : holiday; also : a holiday season as distinguished from the specific day on which the holiday is celebrated
(3) Britain : a fair or merrymaking on a parish feast day
e. : a space of time (as between two high tides or during the height of a flood tide) at sea when the water level permits a particular activity to be carried out
2.
a.
(1) : the alternate rising and falling of the surface of the ocean and of gulfs, bays, estuaries, and other water bodies connected with the ocean that occurs twice a day over most of the earth and is caused by the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon occurring unequally on different parts of the earth — see direct tide, ebb tide, flood tide, neap tide, opposite tide, spring tide
(2) : a similar but less marked rising and falling of an inland body of water
(3) : earth tide
(4) : atmospheric tide
b.
(1) : flood tide
< the ship departed on the tide >
(2) : a specific instance of tide
< there was a tide at 9:53 p.m. >
c. : the mass of water moving in a tide
< sand castles covered by the tide >
also : tidemark
< animals living between the tides >
3.
a. : something that may turn, rise and fall, or decrease or increase like the tides of the sea
< a waning tide of popular interest >
b. : an extreme condition usually of excellence or badness
< how our fortunes ever got to such a tide >
4. : mobile water: as
a. : a flowing stream : current
b. : the waters of the ocean
c. : flood waters : the overflow of a flooding stream
Synonyms: see flow
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
intransitive verb
1. : to flow as or in a tide : surge to and fro : pour forth
2.
a. : to drift with the tide especially in navigating a ship into or out of an anchorage, harbor, or river
b. : to become carried : drift as if with a tide — usually used with on or onward or over
< tiding on toward an uncertain fate >
transitive verb
1. : to transport or cause to float with or as if with the tide
< the sea tiding debris back to shore >
2. : to proceed along (one's way) by taking advantage of tides
III. intransitive verb
Etymology: Middle English tiden, from Old English tīdan; akin to Old Frisian tīdia to proceed to, Middle Dutch tiden to go, come, Middle Low German tīden to hurry, strive, Old Norse tītha to long for, wish, tīthr time — more at tide I
archaic : betide, happen, befall |