tide

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2.2 Translations 1.2.3 See also 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.3.1.1 Synonyms 1.4 Anagrams 2 Middle English 2.1 Alternative forms 2.2 Noun 2.3 Verb 2.3.1 Related terms 3 Old English 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun

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[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: tīd, IPA: /taɪd/, SAMPA: /taId/
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• Rhymes: -aɪd
• Homophones: tied

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old English tīd. Cognate with Dutch tijd, German Zeit Danish, Norwegian and Swedish tid, and probably to Sanskrit अदिति (aditi), “‘unlimited, endless’”), where a- is a negative prefix. Compare tidings, tidy, till (preposition), time.

[edit] Noun

tide (plural tides)

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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.

   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.

   And rest their weary limbs a tide — Edmund Spenser

   Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride — Edmund Spenser

   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.

   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

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to 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.

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• tide one over: to be adequate on a temporary basis.

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• ebb
• flow
• neap
• spring

[edit] Etymology 2

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

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

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

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• betide, befall

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• diet
• edit
• tied

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• tiden (verb only?)

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tide

1. A time (period), season.

   This lusty summer’s tide — Geoffrey Chaucer

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tide

1. (intransitive) To befall; to happen.

   What should us tide of this new law? — Geoffrey Chaucer

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• betide

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[edit] Noun

tīde

1. accusative, genitive or dative singular of tīd
2. nominative or accusative plural of tīd