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tide

Pronunciation: /taɪd/

The English word “tide” has 14 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.
  2. The associated flow of water.
  3. Any similar gravitational effect on Earth or other body.
  4. A high-volume flow, literal or figurative; a current or flood.
  5. The tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
  6. Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
  7. A time.
  8. A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier.
  9. The period of twelve hours.

verb

  1. To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
  2. To carry over or through a problem or difficulty.
  3. To pour a tide or flood.
  4. To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
  5. To happen, occur.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English tyde, from Old English tīd, from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis, from *deh₂y- + *-tis. Related to time. Cognate with Dutch tijd (“time”), German Zeit (“time”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish tid (“time”), Faroese and Icelandic tíð (“time”).

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