tide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tīd
ipa: /taɪd/
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular
ipa: [tʰaːd]
ipa: [tʰɑe̯d]
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: tied
Forms: form: tides
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis
Proto-Germanic *tīdiz
Proto-West Germanic *tīdi
Old English tīd
Middle English tyde
English tide
Inherited from Middle English tyde, from Old English tīd, from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis, from *deh₂y- + *-tis.
 Related to time.
Senses: examples: text: The Bristol Channel has some of the world's largest tides.
glosses: The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.
examples: text: A lot of driftwood was brought in on the tide.
glosses: The associated flow of water.
examples: text: As well as sea tides, there are much smaller land tides.
text: By far the largest tides on Europa are those caused by the gravitational attraction of Jupiter.
glosses: Any similar gravitational effect on Earth or other body.
examples: text: The sewer burst, and a tide of sewage poured into nearby properties.
text: A tide of people crossed over the border.
text: We've encountered a tide of problems.
text: Go I charge thee, inuite them all, let in the tide / Of Knaues once more: my Cook and Ile provide.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), 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:
synonyms: inflood
inflooding
inflow
inflowing
influx
glosses: A high-volume flow, literal or figurative; a current or flood.
examples: text: The tide of public opinion has turned.
text: There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune [...]
ref: 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]:
glosses: The tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
examples: text: [...] and rest their weary limbs a tide.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza xxix:
text: Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:
text: at the tide / Of Christ his birth
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII:
text: 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[.]
ref: 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):
topics: chronology
hobbies
horology
lifestyle
qualifier: except in liturgy
glosses: Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
examples: text: The doctor's no good this tide.
glosses: A time.
examples: text: Eventide, noontide, morrowtide, nighttide, moontide, harvesttide, wintertide, summertide, springtide, autumntide etc.
glosses: A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The period of twelve hours.
glosses: Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
examples: text: strong Tide
ref: 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:
glosses: Violent confluence.
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 pole
tide pool
tide power
tide predictor
tiderace
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