tide

tide is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as preposition, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Time; period; season. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 5 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. preposition. Time; period; season.
2. preposition. The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. Hence, when the sun and moon are in conjunction or opposition, as at new moon and full moon, their action is such as to produce a greater than the usual tide, called the spring tide, as represented in the cut. When the moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the neap tide.
3. preposition. A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood.
4. preposition. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
5. preposition. Violent confluence.
6. preposition. The period of twelve hours.
7. transitive verb. To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
8. noun. To betide; to happen.
9. noun. To pour a tide or flood.
10. noun. To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
11. noun. the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
12. noun. something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea)

    "a rising tide of popular interest"

13. noun. there are usually two high and two low tides each day
14. verb. be carried with the tide
15. verb. cause to float with the tide
16. verb. rise or move forward

    "surging waves"

    Synonyms: surge

Synonyms

surge

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tide:

deti, diet, dite, edit, tied

Common word forms

tided, tides, tidely, tiding, tideful, tideless

Words from these letters

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