tide
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Boats at low tide (periodic change of sea level).
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: tīd, IPA(key): /taɪd/
- (Southern American English, AAVE) IPA(key):
Audio (US) (file) - (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -aɪd
- Homophone: tied
Etymology 1
From Middle English tyde, tide, tyd, tid, from Old English tīd (“time”), from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to time.
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots tide, tyde (“moment, time, occasion, period, tide”), North Frisian tid (“time”), West Frisian tiid (“time, while”), Dutch tijd (“time”), Dutch tij, getij (“tide of the sea”), Afrikaans tyd (“time”), Low German Tied, Tiet (“time”), Low German Tide (“tide of the sea”), German Zeit (“time”), Danish tid (“time”), Swedish tid (“time”), Icelandic tíð (“time”), Albanian ditë (“day”), Old Armenian տի (ti, “age”), Northern Kurdish dem (“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.
- Synonyms: inflood, inflooding, inflow, inflowing, influx
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 88, column 1:
- Go I charge thee, inuite them all, let in the tide / Of Knaues once more: my Cook and Ile provide.
- (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza xxix:
- [...] and rest their weary limbs a tide.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:
- Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII:
- at the tide / Of Christ his birth
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- 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[.]
- (regional, archaic) A time.
- The doctor's no good this tide.
- (regional, archaic) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
- Eventide, noontide, morrowtide, nighttide, moon-tide, harvest-tide, wintertide, summertide, springtide, autumn-tide etc.,.
- (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.
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune [...]
- (obsolete) Violent confluence
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, , London: W Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
- strong Tide
Derived terms
- a rising tide lifts all boats
- Ascensiontide
- astronomical tide
- atmospheric tide
- buck the tide
- Christmastide
- crimson tide
- critical tide level
- Eastertide
- ebb tide
- flood tide
- gravitational tide
- half-tide
- high tide
- hurricane tide
- inferior tide
- king tide
- land tide
- low tide
- meal-tide
- neap tide
- oceanic tide
- Passiontide
- pink tide
- proxigean spring tide
- red tide
- rip tide
- Rogationtide
- roll tide
- spring tide
- stem the tide
- stem the tide
- storm tide
- summertide
- terrestrial tide
- thermal tide
- tidal
- tidal wave
- -tide
- tide crack
- tide current
- tide day
- tide dial
- tide-driven
- tide duty
- tide gate
- tide gauge
- tide harbour
- tide hour
- tide land
- tidelands oil
- tideless
- tide lock
- tidely
- tide mark
- tide mill
- Tide Mills
- tide nor time tarrieth no man
- tide pole
- tide pool
- tide power
- tide predictor
- tide railroad
- tide range
- tide rip
- tide rock
- tide rode
- tide-rode
- tide runner
- tidesman
- tide stream
- tide surveyor
- tide table
- tide waiter
- tidewater
- tide wave
- tide way
- tide wheel
- tidy
- time and tide
- time and tide stay for no man
- time and tide tarry for no man
- time and tide wait for no man
- turn the tide
- Whitsuntide
- wintertide
- work double tides
Translations
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current, stream, flood
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time, notably liturgical anniversary or season
mining: period of twelve hours
tendency or direction of causes, influences or events; course; current
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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.
- (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
Translations
cause to float with the tide
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See also
References
The Dictionary of the Scots Language
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)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.
Synonyms
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
tide
- Alternative form of tyde (“time”)
Etymology 2
Adjective
tide
- Alternative form of tydy
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Noun
tide m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
tide f
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
tīde
- inflection of tīd:
See also
| Seasons in Old English · tīde (layout · text) · category | |||
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| lencten (“spring”) | sumor (“summer”) | hærfest (“autumn”) | winter (“winter”) |
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
Adverb
tide
Ternate
Pronunciation
Noun
tide
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh