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tide
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)
- The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
- A stream, current or flood.
- (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
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:
- (regional, archaic) A time.
- (regional, archaic) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
- (mining) The period of twelve hours.
- Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
- Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
- (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)
- (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.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
- (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.
- The ocean tided most impressively.
- (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)
- (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
- 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[.]
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
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
- dative form of tid
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
tide f
- dative form of tid
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ti?.de/
Noun
t?de
- inflection of t?d:
- accusative/genitive/dative singular
- nominative/accusative plural
See also
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
From English today.
Adverb
tide
- today
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plethora
English
Etymology
From Late Latin pl?th?ra, from Ancient Greek ??????? (pl?th?r?, “fullness, satiety”), from ????? (pl?th?, “to be full”) +? -? (-?, nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pl??th?r?, pl??dh?r?, pl?thô?r?, IPA(key): /?pl?????/, /?pl?ð???/, /pl???????/
- (General American) enPR: pl??th?r?, IPA(key): /?pl?????/
- Rhymes: -????
Noun
plethora (plural plethorae or plethoras)
- (usually followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
- 1817, Francis Jeffrey, review of Lalla Rookh, in the Edinburgh Review
- He labours under a plethora of wit and imagination.
- 1849, Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage
- I pushed my seat right up before the most insolent gazer, a short fat man, with a plethora of cravat round his neck, and fixing my gaze on his, gave him more gazes than he sent.
- 1927, H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature (The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction)
- Meanwhile other hands had not been idle, so that above the dreary plethora of trash like Marquis von Grosse's Horrid Mysteries..., there arose many memorable weird works both in English and German.
- 1986, Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, Randy Newman, ¡Three Amigos! (film)
- Jefe: We have many beautiful piñatas for your birthday celebration, each one filled with little surprises!
- El Guapo: How many piñatas?
- Jefe: Many piñatas, many!
- El Guapo: Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of piñatas?
- Jefe: A what?
- El Guapo: A plethora.
- Jefe: Oh yes, El Guapo. You have a plethora.
- El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora?
- Jefe: Why, El Guapo?
- El Guapo: Well, you just told me that I had a plethora, and I would just like to know if you know what it means to have a plethora. I would not like to think that someone would tell someone else he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora.
- Jefe: El Guapo, I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education, but could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me?
- 1817, Francis Jeffrey, review of Lalla Rookh, in the Edinburgh Review
- (medicine) Chronic excess of blood in the skin, usually in the face.
Synonyms
- (excess, abundance): glut, myriad, surfeit, superfluity, slew
Related terms
- plethoric
Translations
See also
- myriad
References
- “plethora” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Pronounced: /?pl???r?/, /pl?????r?/.
Anagrams
- Althorpe, traphole, tropheal
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (pl?th?r?, “fullness, satiety”), from ????? (pl?th?, “to be full”) +? -? (-?, nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
(Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ple?to.ra/, [pl??t?????]
Noun
pl?th?ra f (genitive pl?th?rae); first declension
- (Late Latin) plethora
Inflection
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- ? English: plethora
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