tide

See also Tide, and tìde

English

Wikipedia

Boats at low tide (periodic change of sea level).

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -aɪd
• Homophone: tied

Etymology 1

From Middle English tide, from Old English tīd (“time, period, season, while; hour; feast-day, festal-tide; canonical hour or service”), from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz (“time, period”), from Proto-Indo-European *dīti- (“time, period”), from Proto-Indo-European *dī- (“time”). Cognate with Scots tide, tyde (“moment, time, occasion, period, tide”), North Frisian tid (“time”), West Frisian tiid (“time, while”), Dutch tijd (“time”), Low German Tied (“time”), Low German Tide (“tide of the sea”), German Zeit (“time”), Swedish tid (“time”), Icelandic tíð (“time”), Albanian ditë (“day”), Old Armenian տի (ti, “age”), Kurdish dem (“time”). Related to time.

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

• Belarusian: прыліў (be) (prylíŭ) m (high tide), адліў (be) (adlíŭ) m (low tide)
• Bulgarian: прилив (bg) (prilív) m (high tide), отлив (bg) (otlív) m (low tide)
• Catalan: marea (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 潮 (cmn) (cháo), 潮汐 (cmn) (cháoxī)

• Czech: příliv (cs) m (high tide), odliv (cs) 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, Tide (de) f
• Greek: παλίρροια (el) (palírroia) f
• Irish: taoide (ga) f
• Italian: marea (it) f
• Japanese: 潮 (ja) (しお, shio), 潮汐 (ja) (ちょうせき, chōseki)
• Jèrriais: mathée f
• Korean: 조석 (ko) (joseok) (潮汐 (ko))

• Latin: aestus (la) m
• Macedonian: плима (mk) (plíma) f, прилив (mk) (príliv) m (high tide), осека (mk) (óseka) f, одлив (mk) (ódliv) m (low tide)
• Polish: pływ (pl) m, przypływ (pl) m (high tide), odpływ (pl) m (low tide)
• Portuguese: maré (pt) m
• Romanian: maree (ro) f
• Russian: прили́в (ru) (prilív) m (high tide), отли́в (ru) (otlív) m (low tide)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плима (sh) f, прилив (sh) m (high tide); осека (sh) f, одлив (sh) m (low tide)

  Roman: plima (sh) f, priliv (sh) m (high tide); oseka (sh) f, odliv (sh) m (low tide)

• Slovak: príliv (sk) m (high tide), odliv (sk) m (low tide)
• Slovene: bibavica (sl) f, plimovanje (sl) n; plima (sl) f (high tide), oseka (sl) f (low tide)
• Spanish: marea (es)
• Turkish: gelgit (tr)
• Ukrainian: прилив (uk) (prylýv) m (high tide), відлив (uk) (vidlýv) m (low tide)
• Vietnamese: thủy triều (vi)
• Welsh: llanw (cy) m

current, stream, flood

• Finnish: virta (fi), virtaus (fi); tulva (fi), hyöky (fi)

time, notably liturgical anniversary or season

• Dutch: getijde (nl) n
• Finnish: aika (fi)

• Russian: время (ru) (vrémja) n

mining: period of twelve hours

something which changes like the tides of the sea

• Finnish: vuorovesi (fi)

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

• Finnish: virta (fi)
• French: tendance (fr) f

• Greek: ροπή (el) (ropí) f
• Russian: направление (ru) (napravlénije) n

high tide — see high tide

low tide — see low tide

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Translations to be checked

• Greek: ρεύμα (el) (révma) n, χείμαρρος (el) (cheímarros) m
• Indonesian: pasang
• Interlingua: marea

• Russian: течение (ru) (tečénije) n
• Swedish: ström (sv)
• 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.
   • Feltham

     They are tided down the stream.

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

• Greek: πάω με το ρεύμα (el) (páo me to révma)

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.
2. What should us tide of this new law? — Chaucer.

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