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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
tide From the web:
- what tide is it right now
- what tide is best for fishing
- what tide is best for surfing
- what tide is best for striper fishing
- what tide is best for crabbing
- what tide is best for surf fishing
- what tide is a new moon
- what tide is a full moon
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