tide

See also Tide, and tìde

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• enPR: tīd, IPA: /taɪd/, SAMPA: /taId/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd
• Homophone: tied

Etymology 1

Middle English tide, from Old English tīd 'time, while', from Proto-Germanic *tīðiz (compare West Frisian tiid, Dutch tijd, German Zeit, Swedish tid), from Proto-Indo-European *dīti- (compare Welsh dydd 'day', Albanian ditë 'day', Ancient Greek δαίεσθαι (daíesthai), δαΐζω (daḯzō) 'to divide, distribute', Old Armenian տի (ti, “age”), Sanskrit dīti 'brightness; time',), Kurdish dem 'time'. Compare tidings, tidy, till (preposition). Related to time, tin.

Noun

tide (plural tides)

Wikipedia

1. The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
2. A stream, current or flood.

   (Can we date this quote?) Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide. — Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, III-iv

3. (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.

   (Can we date this quote?) And rest their weary limbs a tide — Edmund Spenser

   (Can we date this quote?) Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride — Edmund Spenser

   (Can we date this quote?) At the tide of Christ his birth — Fuller

4. (mining) The period of twelve hours.
5. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
6. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.

   (Can we date this quote?) There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — Shakespeare. Julius Caesar, IV-iii

7. (obsolete) Violent confluence — Francis Bacon

Derived terms

terms derived from tide (noun)

astronomical tide atmospheric tide ebb tide gravitational tide high tide hurricane tide inferior tide king tide land tide low tide neap tide oceanic tide red tide rip tide spring tide storm tide terrestrial tide thermal tide tidal tidal wave tide day tide crack tide current

tide dial tide-driven tide duty tide gate tide gauge tide harbour, tide harbor tide hour tide land tidelands oil tideless tide lock tide mark tide mill tide pole tide pool tide power tide predictor tide railroad tide rip tide rock tide rode tide runner tidesman tide stream tide table tide waiter, tidewaiter tidewater, tide water tide wave tide way tide wheel tidy work double tides Ascensiontide Christmastide Eastertide Passiontide Rogationtide Whitsuntide

Translations

periodic change of sea level

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: marea (ca) f. Czech: příliv m. (high tide), odliv m. (low tide) Dutch: getijde (nl) n., tij (nl) n. Finnish: vuorovesi (fi) French: marée (fr) f. Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Gezeiten (de) pl. Greek: παλίρροια (el) (palírroia) f. Irish: taoide (ga) f. Italian: marea (it) f. Japanese: 潮 (しお, shio)

Korean: please add this translation if you can Latin: aestus (la) m. Macedonian: (high tide) плима (mk) (plíma) f., прилив (mk) (príliv) m., (low tide) осека (mk) (óseka) f., одлев (mk) (ódliv) m. Polish: pływ (pl) m., przypływ (pl) m. (high), odpływ (pl) m. (low) Portuguese: maré (pt) m. Romanian: maree (ro) f. Russian: прили́в (ru) m. Serbian: (high tide): plima f., priliv m., (low tide): oseka f., odliv m. Spanish: marea (es) Turkish: please add this translation if you can

a current or stream in sea or tidal river

Greek: ρεύμα (el) (reúma) n. Swedish: ström (sv)

time, notably liturgical anniversary or season

Dutch: getijde (nl) n.

tendency or direction of causes, influences or events; course; current

French: tendance (fr) f.

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Indonesian: pasang Interlingua: marea

Volapük: taid

Verb

tide (third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided)

1. (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.

   They are tided down the stream. — Feltham?

2. (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.

   The ocean tided most impressively, even frightening

3. (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

cause to float with the tide

Dutch: met het getij/de vloed meevoeren

See also

• ebb
• flow
• neap
• spring

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)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.

Synonyms

• betide, befall

Anagrams

• diet
• edit
• tied

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• tid, tyd

Noun

tide

1. A time (period), season.

   This lusty summer’s tide — Geoffrey Chaucer

Related terms

• betide

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Old English

Noun

tīde

1. Plural form of tīd.
2. accusative singular of tīd
3. genitive singular of tīd
4. dative singular of tīd
5. accusative plural of tīd