English

Etymology

Anglo Saxon tīd time; akin to Old Saxon and Old Frisian tīd, Dutch tijd , German zeit, Old High German zīt, Icelandic tī, Swedish and Danish tid, and probably to Sanskrit aditi unlimited, endless, where a- is a negative prefix. Compare tidings, tidy, till (preposition), time.

Pronunciation

• tīd, /taɪd/, /taId/

Homophones

• tied

Noun

tide (tides )

1. (obsolete): Time, period or season.

   This lusty summer's tide — Geoffrey Chaucer

   And rest their weary limbs a tide — Edmund Spenser

   Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride — Edmund Spenser

   At the tide of Christ his birth — Fuller?

2. The constant change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon
3. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
4. A stream, current or flood.

   Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide. — Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, III-iv

5. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.

   There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — Shakespeare. Julius Caesar, IV-iii

6. (obsolete): Violent confluence — Francis Bacon
7. (mining): The period of twelve hours.

Derived terms

• atmospheric tide
• astronomical tide
• ebb tide
• gravitational tide
• high tide
• hurricane tide
• inferior tide
• king tide
• land tide
• low tide
• neap tide
• oceanic 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
• tide lock
• tide mark
• tide mill
• tide pole
• tide pool
• tide power
• tide predictor
• tide railroad
• tide rip
• tide rock
• tide rode
• tide runner
• tide stream
• tide table
• tide waiter
• tide water
• tide wave
• tide way
• tide wheel
• tidelands oil
• tideless
• tidesman
• tidewaiter
• tidewater
• work double tides

Translations

• Dutch: getijde n (1), tij n (1)
• French: marée f
• German: Gezeiten plural (1), Flut f (high tide), Ebbe f (low tide)
• Greek: παλίρροια , ρεύμα
• Indonesian: pasang (?)
• Interlingua: marea
• Irish: taoide f
• Japanese: 潮 (しお, shio)
• Polish: przypływ m (high), odpływ m (low), pływy pl (1)
• Russian: прили́в m
• Spanish: marea
• Volapük: taid

See also

• ebb
• flow
• neap

Etymology

Anglo Saxon tīdan to happen

Pronunciation

• tīd, /taɪd/, /taId/

Homophones

• tied

Transitive verb

1. To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.

   They are tided down the stream. — Feltham?

Intransitive verb

1. (Obsolete): To betide; to happen.

   What should us tide of this new law? — Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Derived expressions

• tide one over : to be adequate on a temporary basis.