tide

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See also: Tide, tìde, and -tide

English

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Boats at low tide (periodic change of sea level).

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English tyde, tide, tyd, tid (time), from Old English tīd (time), from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz (time), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis (time), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (to divide). Related to time.

Noun

tide (plural tides)

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  1. The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.
    The Bristol Channel has some of the world's largest tides.
  2. The associated flow of water.
    A lot of driftwood was brought in on the tide.
  3. Any similar gravitational effect on Earth or other body.
    As well as sea tides, there are much smaller land tides.
    By far the largest tides on Europa are those caused by the gravitational attraction of Jupiter.
  4. A high-volume flow, literal or figurative; a current or flood.
    Synonyms: inflood, inflooding, inflow, inflowing, influx
    The sewer burst, and a tide of sewage poured into nearby properties.
    A tide of people crossed over the border.
    We've encountered a tide of problems.
  5. The tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
    The tide of public opinion has turned.
  6. (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
  7. (regional, archaic) A time.
    The doctor's no good this tide.
  8. (regional, archaic, in compounds) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier.
    Eventide, noontide, morrowtide, nighttide, moontide, harvesttide, wintertide, summertide, springtide, autumntide etc.
  9. (mining) The period of twelve hours.
  10. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
  11. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (obsolete) Violent confluence.
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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. (by extension, originally from the idea of being carried by the tide, now chiefly in the phrase tide over) To carry over or through a problem or difficulty.
  3. (intransitive, rare) To pour a tide or flood.
    The ocean tided most impressively.
  4. (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English tīdan (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.
    • 1779, David Dalrymple, Annals of Scotland, volume II, page 121:
      I wit not what may tide us here
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Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

tide

  1. Alternative form of tyde (time)

Etymology 2

Adjective

tide

  1. Alternative form of tydy

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Noun

tide m or f

  1. dative form of tid

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tide f

  1. dative form of tid

Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

tīde

  1. inflection of tīd:
    1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

See also

Seasons in Old English · tīde (layout · text) · category
lencten (spring) sumor (summer) hærfest (autumn) winter (winter)

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English today.

Adverb

tide

  1. today

Ternate

Pronunciation

Noun

tide

  1. the tide or tide-tide dance

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh