Tide

Noun

 * 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)  Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
 * 4)  The period of twelve hours.
 * 5) Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
 * 6) Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
 * 7)  Violent confluence &mdash; Francis Bacon

Verb

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

Adjectives for Tide
undulating; brimming; ebbing; insurging; aerial; eventful; boundless (plural); multitudinous (plural); human; restless; falling; arrested; waveless; silent; terrible; mysterious; tossing; joyous; sidereal; ancient; surging; chafing; reactionary; capricious; passionate; forward-flowing; sultry; confused; overwhelming; subsiding; tumultuous; headlong; swollen; rippling; green-blue; conflicting; theologic; over-running; hastening; primal; refluent; glassy; brimful; rising; whelming; billowing; retiring; fickle; pellucid; foaming; interminable; incoming; trackless; latent; lulling; adverse; patriotic; sucking; angry; roving; golden; hurrying; flooding; perennial; contrary; westering; crystal;  turbid;  dusty-gray; misty; river; silvery; summer; deep-breathing; sliding; treacherous; rhythmic.

Verbs for Tide
battle with—; breast—; drift with—; harness—; oppose—; stem—; swim with—; yield to—; —crawls out; —deluges; —ebbs; —fluctuates; —inundates; —invades; — moans; —overtakes; —recedes; —regresses; —retires; —retreats; —roars; —swamps; —swells; —throbs; —wanes; —washes; — withdraws.

Thesaurus
rush, salt sea, salt water, sea, set, solar tide, space, space-time, spate, spring tide, stream, surge, tense, term, thalassa, thalassometer, the bounding main, the brine, the briny, the briny deep, the deep, the deep sea, the future, the past, the present, the seven seas, the vasty deep, tidal amplitude, tidal current, tidal current chart, tidal flow, tidal range, tide chart, tide gate, tide gauge, tide race, tide rip, tidewater, tideway, time, timebinding, trend, undercurrent, undertow, water flow, while, affluence, afflux, affluxion, big drink, blue water, chronology, concourse, confluence, conflux, continuity, course, crosscurrent, current, defluxion, direct tide, downflow, downpour, drift, driftage, drink, duration, duree, ebb, ebb and flow, ebb tide, flood, flood tide, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, flux and reflux, full tide, gush, high sea, high seas, high tide, high water, hydrosphere, inflow, lastingness, low tide, low water, lunar tide, main, main sea, mill run, millrace, neap, neap tide, ocean, ocean depths, ocean main, ocean sea, onrush, onward course, opposite tide, outflow, period, psychological time, race, refluence, reflux, rip, riptide, run,

Etymology 1
tide:, from tid: 'time, while', from  (compare West Frisian tiid:, Dutch tijd:, German Zeit:, Swedish tid:), from  (compare Welsh dydd 'day', Albanian ditë 'day', Ancient Greek δαίεσθαι:, δαΐζω: 'to divide, distribute', Old Armenian տի:, Sanskrit dīti 'brightness; time' ). Compare tidings:, tidy:, till: (preposition). Related to time, tin.

Etymology 2
From tiden, tide, from  tidan:.

Synonyms

 * betide, befall

Derived terms

 * tide over
 * astronomical tide
 * atmospheric tide
 * ebb tide
 * gravitational tide
 * high tide
 * hurricane tide
 * inferior tide
 * king tide
 * land tide
 * low tide
 * neap tide
 * oceanic tide
 * red tide
 * rip tide
 * spring tide
 * storm tide
 * terrestrial tide
 * thermal tide
 * tidal
 * tidal wave
 * tide day
 * tide crack
 * tide current


 * tide dial
 * tide-driven
 * tide duty
 * tide gate
 * tide gauge
 * tide harbour, tide harbor
 * tide hour
 * tide land
 * tidelands oil
 * tideless
 * tide lock
 * tide mark
 * tide mill
 * tide pole
 * tide pool
 * tide power
 * tide predictor
 * tide railroad
 * tide rip
 * tide rock
 * tide rode
 * tide runner
 * tidesman
 * tide stream
 * tide table
 * tide waiter, tidewaiter
 * tidewater, tide water
 * tide wave
 * tide way
 * tide wheel
 * tidy
 * work double tides
 * Ascensiontide
 * Christmastide
 * Eastertide
 * Passiontide
 * Rogationtide
 * Whitsuntide

Noun

 * Catalan: marea
 * Czech: příliv, odliv
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: παλίρροια
 * Irish:
 * Italian: marea


 * Japanese: 潮 (しお, shio)
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: плима,,  , одлев
 * Polish: pływ, przypływ, odpływ
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: (high tide): plima, priliv , (low tide): oseka , odliv
 * Spanish:


 * Greek: ρεύμα


 * Dutch:


 * French: tendance

Verb

 * Dutch: met het getij/de vloed meevoeren

Anagrams

 * diet
 * edit
 * tied

Noun

 * 1) A time (period), season.
 * This lusty summer’s tide &mdash; Geoffrey Chaucer

Alternative forms

 * tid, tyd

Related terms

 * betide