different between tide vs tidge

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

Possibly a blend of tidbit and smidge.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?d?

Noun

tidge (plural tidges)

1. (informal) A very small amount.
   • 1978, Colin Tudge, "Cold turkey", New Scientist, 21-28 December 1978:

     Cucumber left for half a day, with red peppers and soy sauce and a tidge of sea salt (which tastes nice) comes through fierce and maritime as a Yangtse pirate.

   • 2007, Christian Moerk, Darling Jim, Henry Holt (2009), ?ISBN, page 39:

     Before I knew it he had taken my hand and squeezed it, just a tidge, like a gentleman would.

   • 2008, Connie Bailey, True Blue, Dreamspinner Press (2008), ?ISBN, page 178:

     “Sorry if I'm just a tidge miffed over the dirty trick he played on me.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tidge.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:modicum.

Anagrams

• idget