different between tide vs plenty

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?d, IPA^(key): /ta?d/
• (AAVE) IPA^(key): /ta?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d
• Homophone: tied

Etymology 1

From Middle English tide, from Old English t?d (“time, period, season, while; hour; feast-day, festal-tide; canonical hour or service”), from Proto-Germanic *t?diz (“time, period”), from Proto-Indo-European *déh?itis (“time, period”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh?y- (“to divide”). Related to time.

Noun

tide (plural tides)

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.
3. (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:

     Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde
4. (regional, archaic) A time.

5. (regional, archaic) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).

6. (mining) The period of twelve hours.
7. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
8. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
9. (obsolete) Violent confluence

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Derived terms

Translations

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.
   • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

     They are tided down the stream.

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

   The ocean tided most impressively.

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

See also

• ebb
• flow
• neap
• spring

References

The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English t?dan (“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, Diet, diet, dite, diët, edit, edit., tied

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tid, tyd

Etymology

From Old English t?d

Noun

tide

1. A time (period), season.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     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[.]

Related terms

• betide

Descendants

• English: tide
• Scots: tid, tyd, tide
• ? Scottish Gaelic: tìde

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?d/

Noun

tide m or f

1. dative form of tid

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tide f

1. dative form of tid

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti?.de/

Noun

t?de

1. inflection of t?d:
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

See also

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English today.

Adverb

tide

1. today

English

Etymology

From Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plenitatem, accusative of plenitas (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives complete, deplete, replete.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pl?nti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pl?nti/, [?pl???i], [?pl?ni]
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): [?pl???i], [?pl?ni]
• Rhymes: -?nti
• Homophone: Pliny (pin-pen merger, silent 't')

Noun

plenty (countable and uncountable, plural plenties)

1. A more-than-adequate amount.

   We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.

   • 1798, Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population:

     During this season of distress, the discouragements to marriage, and the difficulty of rearing a family are so great that population is at a stand. In the mean time the cheapness of labour, the plenty of labourers, and the necessity of an increased industry amongst them, encourage cultivators to employ more labour upon their land, to turn up fresh soil, and to manure and improve more completely what is already in tillage

Usage notes

While some dictionaries analyse this word as a noun, others analyse it as a pronoun, or as both a noun and a pronoun.

Synonyms

• abundance
• profusion

Derived terms

Translations

Pronoun

plenty

1. More than enough.

   I think six eggs should be plenty for this recipe.

Usage notes

See the notes about the noun.

Adverb

plenty (not comparable)

1. More than sufficiently.

   This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
2. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.

   She was plenty mad at him.

Translations

Determiner

plenty

1. (nonstandard) much, enough

   There'll be plenty time later for that

2. (nonstandard) many

   Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.

Adjective

plenty (comparative more plenty, superlative most plenty)

1. (obsolete) plentiful
   • 1597, Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, Scene IV:

     if reasons were as plenty as blackberries

   • There are, among the Irish, men of as much worth and honour as any among the English: nay, to speak the truth, generosity of spirit is rather more common among them. I have known some examples there, too, of good husbands; and I believe these are not very plenty in England.

   • 1836, The American Gardener's Magazine and Register, volume 2, page 279:

     Radishes are very plenty. Of cabbages a few heads of this year's crop have come to hand this week, and sold readily at quotations; […]

Translations

Related terms

• plenitude
• plentitude

References

Anagrams

• pentyl