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Definition tide

Etymology 1

From Middle English tide, from Old English t?d (�time, period, season, while; hour; feast-day, festal-tide; canonical hour or service�), from Proto-Germanic *t?diz (�time, period�), from Proto-Indo-European *d�h?itis (�time, period�), from Proto-Indo-European *deh?y- (�to divide�). Cognate with Scots tide, tyde (�moment, time, occasion, period, tide�), North Frisian tid (�time�), West Frisian tiid (�time, while�), Dutch tijd (�time�), Dutch tij, getij (�tide of the sea�), Low German Tied, Tiet (�time�), Low German Tide (�tide of the sea�), German Zeit (�time�), Danish tid (�time�), Swedish tid (�time�), Icelandic t�� (�time�), Albanian dit� (�day�), Old Armenian ?? (ti, �age�), Kurdish dem (�time�). 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.
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

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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English t?dan (�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.

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