different between tide vs sequence

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 sequence, borrowed from French sequence (“a sequence of cards, answering verses”), from Late Latin sequentia (“a following”), from Latin sequens (“following”), from sequi (“to follow”); see sequent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?kw?ns/

Noun

sequence (countable and uncountable, plural sequences)

1. A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series
2. (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.

   Complete the listed tasks in sequence.

3. A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
4. A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
5. (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
6. (now rare) A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 12-13:

     he found no words to convey the impressions he had received; then he gave way to the anger always the sequence of the antagonism of opinion between them.

7. A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
8. (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.

Usage notes

• (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse sequence with series.

Synonyms

• (a set of things next to each other in a set order): See Thesaurus:sequence

Hypernyms

• (mathematics): function

Hyponyms

• presequence
• (computing): escape sequence

Meronyms

• (mathematics): term

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

sequence (third-person singular simple present sequences, present participle sequencing, simple past and past participle sequenced)

1. (transitive) to arrange in an order
2. (transitive, biochemistry) to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in a nucleic acid
3. (transitive) to produce (music) with a sequencer

Translations

References

Further reading

• sequence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sequence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.