Definitions for tide

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tide tide

Spelling: [tahyd]

IPA: /taɪd/

Tide is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in tide (deit).

Definitions for tide

noun

1. the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
2. the inflow, outflow, or current of water at any given place resulting from the waves of tides.
3. flood tide.
4. a stream or current.
5. anything that alternately rises and falls, increases and decreases, etc.:
6. current, tendency, or drift, as of events or ideas:
7. any extreme or critical period or condition:
8. a season or period in the course of the year, day, etc. (now used chiefly in combination):
9. Ecclesiastical. a period of time that includes and follows an anniversary, festival, etc.
10. Archaic. a suitable time or occasion.
11. Obsolete. an extent of time.

Idioms

1. turn the tide, to reverse the course of events, especially from one extreme to another:

Verb phrases

1. tide over, to assist in getting over a period of difficulty or distress. to surmount (a difficulty, obstacle, etc.); survive.

verb (used with object)

1. to carry, as the tide does.

verb (used without object)

1. to flow as the tide; flow to and fro.
2. to float or drift with the tide.
3. to happen or befall.

Origin of tide

before 900; Middle English (noun); Old English tīd time, hour; cognate with Dutch tijd, German Zeit, Old Norse tīth; akin to time

Examples for tide

But the tide was turning on this issue, an email from another constituent made clear.

Exhausted in mind and body, she could not long endure this tide of recollection.

Republican legislatures are looking for any way to stem the tide, and religious exemptions are one way to do that.

But soon the tide returns, and once more I hear the roistering of the waves.

Or, if I'd only got tied up in some way for a few weeks—something I could tide over.

But now came a tide of other news, and almost all of it was stale stuff to him.

There is one stream which I dread my inability to stem—it is the tide of Popular Opinion.

That cycle of intelligence-gathering and capturing or killing fighters helped turn the tide of combat operations.

Objectively, they are not just riding with the tide, but helping to guide its very direction.

In June only the three days were available, because of tide and moon: the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh.