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, 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 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.

   Synonyms: inflood, inflooding, inflow, inflowing, influx
3. (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
4. (regional, archaic) A time.

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

6. (mining) The period of twelve hours.
7. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
8. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
9. (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. (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.

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

Translations

See also

• ebb
• flow
• neap
• spring

References

The Dictionary of the Scots Language

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