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TIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tide mean? 

TIDE (noun)
  The noun TIDE has 3 senses:

1. the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moonplay

2. something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea)play

3. there are usually two high and two low tides each dayplay

  Familiarity information: TIDE used as a noun is uncommon.


TIDE (verb)
  The verb TIDE has 3 senses:

1. rise or move forwardplay

2. cause to float with the tideplay

3. be carried with the tideplay

  Familiarity information: TIDE used as a verb is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


TIDE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("tide" is a kind of...):

periodic event; recurrent event (an event that recurs at intervals)

Meronyms (parts of "tide"):

tidal current; tidal flow (the water current caused by the tides)

rip current; riptide (a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore)

undercurrent; undertide (a current below the surface of a fluid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tide"):

high tide; high water; highwater (the tide when the water is highest)

low tide; low water (the lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide)

ebbtide (the tide while water is flowing out)

flood; flood tide; rising tide (the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide))

lee tide; leeward tide (a tide that runs in the same direction as the wind is blowing)

slack tide; slack water (the occurrence of relatively still water at the turn of the (low) tide)

Derivation:

tidal (of or relating to or caused by tides)

tide (be carried with the tide)

tide (cause to float with the tide)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

a rising tide of popular interest

Hypernyms ("tide" is a kind of...):

fluctuation; variation (an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change)

Derivation:

tide (rise or move forward)


Sense 3

Meaning:

There are usually two high and two low tides each day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

lunar time period; tide

Hypernyms ("tide" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)


TIDE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they tide  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it tides  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: tided  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: tided  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: tiding  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Rise or move forward

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

surge; tide

Context example:

surging waves

Hypernyms (to "tide" is one way to...):

course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Antonym:

ebb (flow back or recede)

Derivation:

tide (something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea))


Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to float with the tide

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "tide" is one way to...):

float (set afloat)

Cause:

tide (be carried with the tide)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Also:

tide over (suffice for a period between two points)

Derivation:

tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Be carried with the tide

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "tide" is one way to...):

be adrift; blow; drift; float (be in motion due to some air or water current)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)


 Context examples 


My eyes were dim and so were Mr. Peggotty's; but I repeated in a whisper, “With the tide?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Why, by the powers,” cried Long John, “if we do, we'll miss the morning tide!”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was no wind, the tide was high, and the schooner floated.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Its current orbit is not expected to generate significant tides, so any ancient underground ocean may be frozen by now.

(Cracks in Pluto's moon could indicate it once had an underground ocean, NASA)

Ebb tide in appetite to-day. Cannot eat, cannot rest, so diary instead.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It's like the tide, Jo, when it turns, it goes slowly, but it can't be stopped.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They are working double tides in the yards, but I do not know when the ships will be ready.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Harmful algae blooms often come in the form of "red tides," so called because of the reddish tint they lend ocean waters.

(Scientists discover genetic basis for how harmful algae blooms become toxic, National Science Foundation)

Spring tides mean one thing for alligators: more food.

(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)



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