Tide

Pronunciation

• enPR: tÄ«d, IPA: /taɪd/
• AAVE IPA: /taːd/
• Rhymes: -aɪd
• Homophones: tied

From Middle English tide, from Old English tīd ("time, period, season, while; hour; feast-day, festal-tide; canonical hour or service"), from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz ("time, period"), from Proto-Indo-European *dīti- ("time, period"), from Proto-Indo-European *dī- ("time"). Cognate with Scots tide, tyde ("moment, time, occasion, period, tide"), North Frisian tid ("time"), West Frisian tiid ("time, while"), Dutch tijd ("time"), Low German Tied ("time"), Tiet, Low German Tide ("tide of the sea"), German Zeit ("time"), Danish tid ("time"), Swedish tid ("time"), Icelandic tíð ("time"), Albanian ditë ("day"), Old Armenian տի (ti, "age"), Kurdish dem ("time"). Related to time.

Full definition of 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.unknown date Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide. — Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, III-iv
3. (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.unknown date And rest their weary limbs a tide — Edmund Spenserunknown date Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride — Edmund Spenserunknown date ''At the tide of Christ his birth — Fuller
4. (mining) 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.unknown date There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — Shakespeare. Julius Caesar, IV-iii
7. (obsolete) Violent confluence — Francis Bacon

Derived terms

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
• Feltham''They are tided down the stream.
2. (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.''The ocean tided most impressively, even frightening
3. (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

Derived terms

• tide over

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

Verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.
2. What should us tide of this new law? — Chaucer.

Synonyms

• betide, befall

Anagrams

• diet
• edit
• tied