Definition/Meaning of tide

• English - Noun: tide (plural tides) The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun. The Bristol Channel has some of the world's largest tides . The associated flow of water. A lot of driftwood was brought in on the tide . We can cross to the island when the tide is out, but it won't move out until around five o'clock. Any similar gravitational effect…
• English - 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. (broadly, in the phrase tide over) To carry over or through a problem or difficulty. (intransitive, rare)…
• English - Anagrams: diet edit tied
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. Inherited from Middle English tide , from Old English tīd , from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dih₂tís, from *déh₂itis, from *deh₂y- + *-tis. Related to time . Cognate with Dutch tijd (“time”), German Zeit (“time”), Danish , Norwegian Bokmål , Norwegian Nynorsk , and Swedish tid (“time”), Faroese and Icelandic tíð (“time”).…
• English - Pronunciation: (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /taɪd/ (British, Southern, Standard) IPA: /tɑjd/ (Australia, New Zealand) IPA: [tɑed] (Scotland) IPA: /tʌɪd/ (Northumbria) IPA: /tɛɪd/ IPA: [tʰaːd] Rhymes: -aɪd Homophone: tied (except in Scotland and Northumbria) Homophone: tied (except in Scotland and Northumbria) Homophone: tied (except in Scotland and Northumbria)