tide
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
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lifestyle
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der.
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.
Cognate with Dutch tijd (“time”), German Zeit (“time”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish tid (“time”), Faroese and Icelandic tíð (“time”).
Inflected forms:
form: tides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.
pos: noun
examples: The Bristol Channel has some of the world's largest tides.
gloss: The associated flow of water.
pos: noun
examples: A lot of driftwood was brought in on the tide.
gloss: Any similar gravitational effect on Earth or other body.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A high-volume flow, literal or figurative; a current or flood.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Go I charge thee, inuite them all, let in the tide / Of Knaues once more: my Cook and Ile provide.
gloss: The tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
pos: noun
examples: The tide of public opinion has turned.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune [...]
gloss: Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: [...] and rest their weary limbs a tide.
Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde
at the tide / Of Christ his birth
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[.]
gloss: A time.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
regional
examples: The doctor's no good this tide.
gloss: A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
in-compounds
regional
examples: Eventide, noontide, morrowtide, nighttide, moontide, harvesttide, wintertide, summertide, springtide, autumntide etc.
gloss: The period of twelve hours.
pos: noun
gloss: To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They are tided down the stream.
gloss: To carry over or through a problem or difficulty.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
gloss: To pour a tide or flood.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
examples: The ocean tided most impressively.
gloss: To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: ebb
flow
neap
spring
Derived words: Allhallowtide
a rising tide lifts all boats
Ascensiontide
astronomical tide
atmospheric tide
birthtide
buck the tide
Christmastide
countertide
crimson tide
critical tide level
Eastertide
ebb tide
evetide
flood tide
foretide
full tide
gravitational tide
half-tide
Hallowtide
high tide
hightide
hurricane tide
inferior tide
king tide
land tide
low tide
macrotide
Maytide
meal-tide
mistide
morrowtide
neap tide
nighttide
noontide
oceanic tide
opetide
Passiontide
pink tide
proxigean spring tide
red tide
riptide
rip tide
Rogationtide
roll tide
spring tide
stem the tide
storm tide
summertide
supertide
terrestrial tide
thermal tide
tidal
tidal wave
-tide
tide crack
tide current
tide day
tide dial
tide-driven
tide duty
tidefall
tideflat
tideful
tide gate
tide gauge
tide harbour
tide hour
tide land
tideland
tidelands oil
tideless
tidelike
tideline
tide lock
tidely
tide mark
tidemark
tide mill
Tide Mills
tide nor time tarrieth no man
tide pole
tide pond
tide pool
tidepool
tide power
tide predictor
tider
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
tideway
tide way
tide wheel
tideworn
tidewrack
tidology
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
undertide
Whitsuntide
wintertide
work double tides
yestertide
Yuletide
tide over
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