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Tide \Tide\, noun [AS. t[imac]d time; akin to OS. & OFries. t[imac]d, D. tijd, G. zeit, OHG. z[imac]t, Icel. t[imac]?, Sw. & Dan. tid, and probably to Skr. aditi unlimited, endless, where a- is a negative prefix. [root]58. Cf. {Tidings}, {Tidy}, {Till}, preposition , {Time}.]

1. Time; period; season. [Obsoles.] "This lusty summer's tide." --Chaucer.

And rest their weary limbs a tide. --Spenser.


At the tide of Christ his birth. --Fuller.



3. A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood. "Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide." --Shak.




6. (Mining) The period of twelve hours.


{Inferior tide}. See under {Inferior}, adjective

{To work double tides}. See under {Work}, verb (used with an object)

{Tide day}, the interval between the occurrences of two consecutive maxima of the resultant wave at the same place. Its length varies as the components of sun and moon waves approach to, or recede from, one another. A retardation from this cause is called the lagging of the tide, while the acceleration of the recurrence of high water is termed the priming of the tide. See {Lag of the tide}, under 2d {Lag}.

{Tide dial}, a dial to exhibit the state of the tides at any time.



{Tide lock}, a lock situated between an inclosed basin, or a canal, and the tide water of a harbor or river, when they are on different levels, so that craft can pass either way at all times of the tide; -- called also {guard lock}.

{Tide mill}. (a) A mill operated by the tidal currents. (b) A mill for clearing lands from tide water.

{Tide rip}, a body of water made rough by the conflict of opposing tides or currents.

{Tide table}, a table giving the time of the rise and fall of the tide at any place.

{Tide water}, water affected by the flow of the tide; hence, broadly, the seaboard.

{Tide wave}, or {Tidal wave}, the swell of water as the tide moves. That of the ocean is called primitive; that of bays or channels derivative. See also {tidal wave} in the vocabulary. --Whewell.

{Tide wheel}, a water wheel so constructed as to be moved by the ebb or flow of the tide.


Tide \Tide\ (t[imac]d), verb (used with an object) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.

They are tided down the stream. --Feltham.


Tide \Tide\, verb (used without an object) [AS. t[imac]dan to happen. See {Tide}, noun]

1. To betide; to happen. [Obs.]

What should us tide of this new law? --Chaucer.

2. To pour a tide or flood.

3. (Naut.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.






3: there are usually two high and two low tides each day [syn: {tide}, {lunar time period}]


1: rise or move forward; "surging waves" [syn: {tide}, {surge}] [ant: {ebb}, {ebb away}, {ebb down}, {ebb off}, {ebb out}]

2: cause to float with the tide

3: be carried with the tide




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