tide

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tīd, IPA^(key): /taɪd/
• (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) IPA^(key): [tʰaːd]
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): [tʰɑe̯d]
• Rhymes: -aɪd
• Homophone: tied

Etymology 1

From Middle English tyde, tide, tyd, tid (“time”), from Old English tīd (“time”), from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to time.

Noun

tide (plural tides)

1. The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.

2. The associated flow of water.

3. Any similar gravitational effect on Earth or other body.

4. A high-volume flow, literal or figurative; a current or flood.

   Synonyms: inflood, inflooding, inflow, inflowing, influx
5. The tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
6. (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
7. (regional, archaic) A time.

8. (regional, archaic, in compounds) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier.

9. (mining) The period of twelve hours.
10. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
11. (obsolete) Violent confluence.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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.
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.

4. (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

Translations

See also

• ebb
• flow
• neap
• spring

References

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

Etymology 2

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

Verb

tide (third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.

Synonyms

• betide, befall

Anagrams

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

tide

1. Alternative form of tyde (“time”)

Etymology 2

Adjective

tide

1. Alternative form of tydy

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːd/

Noun

tide m or f

1. dative form of tid

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tide f

1. dative form of tid

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.de/

Noun

tīde

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

See also

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English today.

Adverb

tide

1. today

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈti.de]

Noun

tide

1. the tide or tide-tide dance

References

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