Word Finder - tide

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The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.

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A stream, current or flood.

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(chronology, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.

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A time.

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The doctor's no good this tide.

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A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).

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Eventide, noontide, morrowtide, nighttide, moon-tide, harvest-tide, wintertide, summertide, springtide, autumn-tide etc.,.

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The period of twelve hours.

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Something which changes like the tides of the sea.

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Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.

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Violent confluence

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To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.

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To pour a tide or flood.

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The ocean tided most impressively.

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To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

If the tide had been going out, he'd be in the Atlantic by now.

But even then the tide was turning.

The word is someone did in Wassermann over on the Eastern Shore and the tide carried him out in the middle of the Chesapeake.

This is not me fighting against the tide of history but being swept along with it.

His heartbeat was as steady as the tide, his strength needed when hers was fading.

With the rise and fall of the tide the discharge pipes are flushed at the bottom.

He probably floated out on the tide.

In the sense of "flowing water," the word is applied to the inflow of the tide, as opposed to "ebb."

The harbours are accessib,le at all stages of the tide.

For a time the tide of feeling ran strongly in his favour.

While inequalities still exist around the world for women, the tide of history is flowing inexorably in favor of women's rights.

The tide rises and falls about 4 ft.

Tide races and tide rips are evident in Cardigan Bay.

It is separated on the south from the island of Shikoku by the Naruto channel, through which, in certain conditions of the tide, a remarkable torrential current is set up. The island is celebrated for its exquisite scenery, and also for the fact that it is traditionally reputed to have been the first of the Japanese islands created by the deities Izanagi and Izanami.

This success turned the tide of war against Don Carlos, who vainly attempted a raid towards Madrid.

Parking 1/2 mile away - access difficult, only workable at low tide.

Metternich had declared that the one thing which had not entered into his calculations was a Liberal pope, only that was an impossibility; still he was much disturbed by Piuss attitude, and tried to stem the revolutionary tide by frightening the princes.

The beauty and gorgeous imagery of his art works bore away the public from the first, in spite of their heretical dogmatism and their too frequent extravagance of rhetoric. But his later economic and social pieces, such as Unto this Last, Time and Tide, Sesame and Lilies, are composed in the purest and most lucid of English styles.

He never forgot "the sea-fight far away, How it thundered o'er the tide, And the dead captains as they lay In their graves o'erlooking the tranquil bay, Where they in battle died."

This emperor had, in the years 717 and 718, hurled back the tide of Arab conquest which threatened to engulf Byzantium, and had also shown himself an able statesman and legislator.

Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return.

At low tide the river is at neck height and the area remote from the village.

Jersey City when first incorporated was a small sandy peninsula (an island at high tide) known as Paulus Hook, directly opposite the lower end of Manhattan Island.

The new sultan's reign marked, if not the beginning, at least the high tide Aba-ui-Aziz, o f that course of improvident and unrestrained 1861-1876.

Here help was expected to arrive from England, and the tide might yet have turned, for the Russian armies were gathering in the east.

It was in no small degree due to his stanch and unwavering leadership that the Church was saved from the peril of being overwhelmed by the rising tide of the pagan revival which swept over Asia during the first half of the 2nd century, and it was his unfaltering allegiance to the Apostolic faith that secured the defeat of the many forms of heresy which threatened to destroy the Church from within.

The tide generally rises 20 ft., with great velocity.

The tide of strict construction was setting in strongly in his state, and he was borne along with the flood.

The slight Pacific tide was running in with a gentle ripple.

The harbour is accessible, owing to extensive dredging, to vessels drawing 19 ft., at high tide; and Dunedin is the headquarters of the coasting services of the Union Steamship Co.

The rising tide of poverty in the UK, immigration and asylum seekers show how the local and global are interconnected.

Essentially the water would be drawn from the ebb tide of the Thames, which is about two thirds less salty than the sea.

A correction for level of tide was in many cases necessary, and was artmer Mountai Siege artillery sights.

The classical reaction was now in full tide; Winckelmann was writing, Raphael Mengs.

In 1815 Napoleon was not supported by a united and unanimous France; the country was weakened by internal dissensions at the very moment when it was needful to put every man in line to meet the rising tide of invasion surging against the long curving eastern frontier.

It is by far the most important river in the state, for, owing to the sinking of the land, which has admitted the tide as far as Troy, it is navigable for 151 m.

In August 1756 Montcalm took Oswego from the English and destroyed it, and in 1757 he captured Fort William Henry; but in the latter year the elder Pitt assumed control of affairs in England, and his aggressive, clear-sighted policy turned the tide of war in England's favour.

When he reached manhood the French Renaissance was at high water, and the turn of the tide was beginning.

The latter, a zealous Roman Catholic, had vainly tried to stem the tide of the Reformation in his dominions; Henry, on the other hand, was an equally devoted Protestant.

About 1840 a strong tide of immigration from Germany set in, continuing steadily for a half-century.

In 1888 the tide of persecution turned, and several chiefs embraced Christianity, and on Crowther's return from another visit to England, the large iron church known as "St Stephen's cathedral" was opened.

There is a sand-bar at the entrance to the river, but at the lowest state of the tide there are 26 ft.

The tide of the new movement had reached its height about 1800.

The branches as well as the upper parts of the main streams flow through broad and shallow valleys; the middle courses of the main streams wind their way through reed-covered marshes, the water ebbing and flowing with the tide; in their lower courses they become estuarine and the water flows between low banks.

It was at this moment that Bragg was in the full tide of his temporary success in Tennessee and Kentucky, and, after his great victory of Second Bull Run, Lee naturally invaded Maryland, which, it was assumed, had not forgotten its Southern sympathies.

It began on the Day of Pentecost, but continued in full tide almost to the end of the 1st century, and, even when it began to subside, it did so quite gradually.

Often, as has been said, the atoll is divided into a number of islets, but in some smaller atolls the ring is complete, and the sea-water gains access beneath the surface of the reef to the lagoon within, where it is sometimes seen to spout up at the rise of the tide.

Now for a while the tide of discovery slackened.

Lynn Harbour has an area of 30 acres and an average depth at low tide of io ft.

Claude Acquaviva, the fifth general, held office from 1581 to 1615, a time almost coinciding with the high tide of the successful reaction, chiefly due to the Jesuits.