| tide | | |
| n. (event) | 1. tide | the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon. |
| ~ periodic event, recurrent event | an event that recurs at intervals. |
| ~ high tide, high water, highwater | the tide when the water is highest. |
| ~ low tide, low water | the lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide. |
| ~ ebbtide | the tide while water is flowing out. |
| ~ rising tide, flood tide, flood | the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide).; "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" |
| ~ lee tide, leeward tide | a tide that runs in the same direction as the wind is blowing.; "a leeward tide is dangerous for small boats" |
| ~ slack tide, slack water | the occurrence of relatively still water at the turn of the (low) tide. |
| ~ tidal current, tidal flow | the water current caused by the tides. |
| ~ rip current, riptide | a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore. |
| ~ undertide, undercurrent | a current below the surface of a fluid. |
| n. (event) | 2. tide | something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea).; "a rising tide of popular interest" |
| ~ variation, fluctuation | an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change. |
| n. (time) | 3. lunar time period, tide | there are usually two high and two low tides each day. |
| ~ period, period of time, time period | an amount of time.; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" |
| v. (motion) | 4. surge, tide | rise or move forward.; "surging waves" |
| ~ course, flow, run, feed | move along, of liquids.; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" |
| v. (motion) | 5. tide | cause to float with the tide. |
| ~ tide | be carried with the tide. |
| ~ float | set afloat.; "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond" |
| v. (motion) | 6. tide | be carried with the tide. |
| ~ be adrift, drift, float, blow | be in motion due to some air or water current.; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore" |
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