tide

Meaning

Noun

1. The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.
2. The associated flow of water.
3. Any similar gravitational effect on Earth or other body.
4. A high-volume flow, literal or figurative; a current or flood.
5. The tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
6. (obsolete) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
7. (archaic, regional) A time.
8. (archaic, in-compounds, regional) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier.
9. The period of twelve hours.
10. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
11. (obsolete) Violent confluence.

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
2. (broadly) To carry over or through a problem or difficulty.
3. (intransitive, rare) To pour a tide or flood.
4. (intransitive) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

Verb

To happen, occur.

Synonyms

current

flow

stream

wave

👋

surge

trend

ebb and flow

wash away

course

flood

high tide

period

time

⌚

wash off

tidal current

lunar time period

patch

stream of water

phase

rise

season

stage

stint

drift

struggle

submerge

change

tendency

flowing water

time period

breaker

undertow

variance

variation

vicissitude

age

water

🚰

alternation

while

body of water

epoch

fluctuation

happen

push over

low

low tide

Translations

marée

marea

Gezeiten

maré

marea

getijde

παλίρροια

tij

Tide

marea

getij

Gezeit

Pronounced as (IPA)

/taɪd/

Etymology

Cognate with Scots: tide

Cognate with Northern Frisian: tid

Cognate with Western Frisian: tiid

Cognate with Dutch: tijd

Cognate with Dutch: tij

Cognate with Afrikaans: tyd

Cognate with Low German: Tied

Cognate with Low German: Tide

Cognate with German: Zeit

Cognate with Danish: tid

Cognate with Swedish: tid

Cognate with Icelandic: tíð

Cognate with Albanian: ditë

Cognate with Classical Armenian: տի

Cognate with Northern Kurdish: dem

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis
Proto-Germanic *tīdiz
Proto-West Germanic *tīdi
Old English tīd
Middle English tyde
English tide
Inherited from Middle English tyde, from Old English tīd, from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis, from *deh₂y- + *-tis.
Related to time.