tide

• enPR: tīd, IPA^(key): /taɪd/
• (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) IPA^(key): [tʰaːd]

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): [tʰɑe̯d]
• Rhymes: -aɪd
• Homophone: tied

Inherited from Middle English tyde, from Old English tīd, from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis, from *deh₂y- + *-tis. Related to time.

tide (plural tides)

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.

   • c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 88, column 1:

     Go I charge thee, inuite them all, let in the tide / Of Knaues once more: my Cook and Ile provide.

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

   The tide of public opinion has turned.

   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune [...]

6. (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^[1]:

     at the tide / Of Christ his birth

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (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[.]

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.
    • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

      strong Tide

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.

• tide over

• ebb
• flow
• neap
• spring

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• “tide”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English tīdan (“to happen”).

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^[2], volume II, page 121:

     I wit not what may tide us here

• betide, befall

• DIET, Diet, diet, dite, diët, edit, edit., tied

tide

1. alternative form of tyde (“time”)

tide

1. alternative form of tydy

• IPA^(key): /tiːd/

tide m or f

1. dative form of tid

tide f

1. dative form of tid

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.de/

tīde

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

From English today.

tide

1. today

• IPA^(key): [ˈti.de]

tide

1. the tide or tide-tide dance

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