Dictionary Entry
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
- 1preposition
Time; period; season.
- 2preposition
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.
- 3preposition
A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood.
- 4preposition
Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
- 5preposition
Violent confluence.
- 6preposition
The period of twelve hours.
- 7transitive verb
To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
- 8noun
To betide; to happen.
- 9noun
To pour a tide or flood.
- 10noun
To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
- 11noun
the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
- 12noun
something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea)
"a rising tide of popular interest"
- 13noun
there are usually two high and two low tides each day
- 14verb
be carried with the tide
- 15verb
cause to float with the tide
- 16verb
rise or move forward
"surging waves"
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