tide
See also: Tide, tìde, and -tide
English
Boats at low tide (periodic change of sea level).
Pronunciation
- enPR: tīd, IPA(key): /taɪd/
- (AAVE) IPA(key): /taːd/
Audio (US) (file) - 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.
Cognates:
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”), Afrikaans tyd (“time”), Low German Tied, Tiet (“time”), 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”), Northern Kurdish dem (“time”).
Noun
tide (plural tides)
- The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
- A stream, current or flood.
- Synonyms: inflood, inflooding, inflow, inflowing, influx
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iv], page 88, column 1:
- Go I charge thee, inuite them all, let in the tide / Of Knaues once more: my Cook and Ile provide.
- (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza xxix:
- [...] and rest their weary limbs a tide.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion
- Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII:
- at the tide / Of Christ his birth
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, OCLC 1026761782, (please specify the book or page number):
- What is singular too, the spademen seem to work lazily; they will not work double-tides, even for offer of more wages, though their tide is but seven hours[.]
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- (regional, archaic) A time.
- The doctor's no good this tide.
- (regional, archaic) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
- Eventide, noontide, morrowtide, nighttide, moon-tide, harvest-tide, wintertide, summertide, springtide, autumn-tide etc.,.
- (mining) The period of twelve hours.
- Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
- Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune [...]
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- (obsolete) Violent confluence
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, OCLC 1086746628:
- strong Tide
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Derived terms
Terms derived from tide (noun)
- -tide
- Ascensiontide
- astronomical tide
- atmospheric tide
- Christmastide
- Eastertide
- ebb tide
- gravitational tide
- high tide
- hurricane tide
- inferior tide
- king tide
- land tide
- low tide
- neap tide
- oceanic tide
- Passiontide
- red tide
- rip tide
- Rogationtide
- spring tide
- storm tide
- summertide
- terrestrial tide
- thermal tide
- tidal
- tidal wave
- tide day
- tide crack
- tide current
- tide dial
- tide-driven
- tide duty
- tide gate
- tide gauge
- tide harbour, tide harbor
- tide hour
- tide land
- tidelands oil
- tideless
- tide lock
- tidely
- tide mark
- tide mill
- Tide Mills
- tide pole
- tide pool
- tide power
- tide predictor
- tide railroad
- tide rip
- tide rock
- tide rode
- tide runner
- tidesman
- tide stream
- tide table
- tide waiter, tidewaiter
- tidewater, tide water
- tide wave
- tide way
- tide wheel
- tidy
- Whitsuntide
- wintertide
- work double tides
Translations
periodic change of sea level
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current, stream, flood
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time, notably liturgical anniversary or season
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mining: period of twelve hours
something which changes like the tides of the sea
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tendency or direction of causes, influences or events; course; current
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high tide — see high tide
low tide — see low tide
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Verb
tide (third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided)
- (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
- They are tided down the stream.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
- (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.
- The ocean tided most impressively.
- (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
cause to float with the tide
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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)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.
- 1779, David Dalrymple, Annals of Scotland, volume II, page 121:
- I wit not what may tide us here
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Synonyms
- betide, befall
Anagrams
- DIET, Diet, diet, dite, diët, edit, edit., tied
Middle English
Noun
tide
- Alternative form of tyde (“time”)
Adjective
tide
- Alternative form of tydy
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tiːd/
Noun
tide m or f
- dative form of tid
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
tide f
- dative form of tid
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtiː.de/
Noun
tīde
- inflection of tīd:
- accusative/genitive/dative singular
- nominative/accusative plural
See also
| Seasons in Old English · tīde (layout · text) · category | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| lencten (“spring”) | sumor (“summer”) | hærfest (“autumn”) | winter (“winter”) |
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
From English today.
Adverb
tide
- today
Ternate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈti.de]
Noun
tide
- 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