# tide
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: tīd, IPA: /taɪd/
* (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) IPA: [tʰaːd]
* Audio (US):(file)
* (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: [tʰɑe̯d]
* Rhymes: -aɪd
* Homophone: tied

### Etymology 1

From Middle English tyde, tide, tyd, tid (“time”), from Old English tīd (“time”), from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to time.
Cognate with Scots tide, tyde (“tide”), North Frisian tid (“time”), West Frisian tyd, tiid (“time, while”), Dutch tijd (“time”), Dutch tij, getij (“tide of the sea”), Afrikaans tyd (“time”), Low German Tied, Tiet (“time”), Low German Tide (“tide of the sea”), German Zeit (“time”), German Tide, Gezeiten (“tide of the sea”), Danish tid (“time”), Swedish tid (“time”), Icelandic tíð (“time”), Albanian ditë (“day”), Old Armenian տի (ti, “age”), Northern Kurdish dem (“time”).

#### Noun

tide (plural tides)
* The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.
    The Bristol Channel has some of the world's largest tides.
* The associated flow of water.
    A lot of driftwood was brought in on the tide.
* Any similar gravitational effect on Earth or other body.
    As well as sea tides, there are much smaller land tides.
    By far the largest tides on Europa are those caused by the gravitational attraction of Jupiter.
* A high-volume flow, literal or figurative; a current or flood.
    Synonyms: inflood, inflooding, inflow, inflowing, influx
    The sewer burst, and a tide of sewage poured into nearby properties.
    A tide of people crossed over the border.
    We've encountered a tide of problems.
** c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 88, column 1:Go I charge thee, inuite them all, let in the tide / Of Knaues once more: my Cook and Ile provide.
* The tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
    The tide of public opinion has turned.
** 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune [...]
* (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza xxix:[...] and rest their weary limbs a tide.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde
** 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII‎:at the tide / Of Christ his birth
** 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):What is singular too, the spademen seem to work lazily; they will not work double-tides, even for offer of more wages, though their tide is but seven hours[.]
* (regional, archaic) A time.
    The doctor's no good this tide.
* (regional, archaic, in compounds) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier.
    Eventide, noontide, morrowtide, nighttide, moontide, harvesttide, wintertide, summertide, springtide, autumntide etc.
* (mining) The period of twelve hours.
* (Can we verify this sense?) Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
* (obsolete) Violent confluence
** 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:strong Tide

##### Derived terms

* a rising tide lifts all boats
* Ascensiontide
* astronomical tide
* atmospheric tide
* buck the tide
* Christmastide
* crimson tide
* critical tide level
* Eastertide
* ebb tide
* flood tide
* full tide
* gravitational tide
* half-tide
* high tide
* hurricane tide
* inferior tide
* king tide
* land tide
* low tide
* meal-tide
* neap tide
* oceanic tide
* Passiontide
* pink tide
* proxigean spring tide
* red tide
* rip tide
* Rogationtide
* roll tide
* spring tide
* stem the tide
* storm tide
* summertide
* terrestrial tide
* thermal tide
* tidal
* tidal wave
* -tide
* tide crack
* tide current
* tide day
* tide dial
* tide-driven
* tide duty
* tide gate
* tide gauge
* tide harbour
* tide hour
* tide land
* tidelands oil
* tideless
* tide lock
* tidely
* tide mark
* tide mill
* Tide Mills
* tide nor time tarrieth no man
* tide of change
* tide pole
* tide pool
* tide power
* tide predictor
* tide railroad
* tide range
* tide rip
* tide rock
* tide rode
* tide-rode
* tide runner
* tidesman
* tide stream
* tide surveyor
* tide table
* tide waiter
* tidewater
* tide wave
* tide way
* tide wheel
* tidy
* time and tide
* time and tide stay for no man
* time and tide tarry for no man
* time and tide wait for no man
* turn the tide
* Whitsuntide
* wintertide
* work double tides

##### Translations

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#### Verb

tide (third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided)
* (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
** 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:They are tided down the stream.
* (by extension, originally from the idea of being carried by the tide, now chiefly in the phrase tide over) To carry over or through a problem or difficulty.
* (intransitive, rare) To pour a tide or flood.
    The ocean tided most impressively.
* (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

##### Derived terms

* tide over

##### Translations
#### See also

* ebb
* flow
* neap
* spring

#### References

* The Dictionary of the Scots Language
* “tide”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English tīdan (“to happen”).

#### Verb

tide (third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided)
* (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.
** 1779, David Dalrymple, Annals of Scotland‎, volume II, page 121:I wit not what may tide us here

##### Synonyms

* betide, befall

### Anagrams

* DIET, Diet, diet, dite, diët, , edit., tied

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

tide
* Alternative form of tyde (“time”)

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

tide
* Alternative form of tydy

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tiːd/

### Noun

tide m or f
* dative form of tid

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

tide f
* dative form of tid

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtiː.de/

### Noun

tīde
* inflection of tīd:
** accusative/genitive/dative singular
** nominative/accusative plural

#### See also

Seasons in Old English · tīde (layout · text) · category :
| lencten (“spring”) | sumor (“summer”) | hærfest (“autumn”) | winter (“winter”) |

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English today.

### Adverb

tide
* today

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈti.de]

### Noun

tide
* the tide or tide-tide dance

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh