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tide English

Meaning tide meaning

What does tide mean?
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tide Noun

— The tide is the regular rising and falling of sea levels caused by the moon. After getting the ship stuck on sand, the crew had to wait until high tide so it would refloat. — A tide may be something that rises and falls as if it were the sea. The politicians knew that one day the tide of public opinion would agree with them. — Tide is a period of time or a season; usually used with another word. She always looked forward to Whitsuntide.

tide

— noun the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon — noun something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea) a rising tide of popular interest — noun there are usually two high and two low tides each day — verb be carried with the tide — verb cause to float with the tide — verb (= surge) rise or move forward surging waves

Synonyms tide synonyms

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tide English » English

current flow stream wave trend surge ebb and flow wash off wash away time tidal current period lunar time period high tide flood course while water vicissitude variation variance undertow time period tendency submerge struggle stream of water stint stage season rise push over phase patch low tide low happen fluctuation flowing water epoch drift change breaker body of water alternation age

Topics tide topics

What do people use tide to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Tide

Conjugation tide conjugation

How do you conjugate tide?

tide · verb

Examples tide examples

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Simple sentences

People don't like to swim against the tide.
High tide is at 3 p.m. today.
He is swimming against the tide.
The tide has turned.
You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
We can't leave our tents on the beach where they are now. If we do, they'll be under water during high tide.
We have a low tide approximately every six hours.
The tide normally leaves the beach walkers only a narrow strip of sand they can walk on without getting their feet wet.
The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!
The tide destroyed the sand castle.
Tom's sand castle was destroyed by the tide.
The flood tide destroyed the sandcastle.
Our boat drifted to shore on the tide.
Time and tide wait for no man.
The tide of public opinion is turning against sexism.
He tried to swim against the tide.
I walked along the beach when the tide ebbed.
Let's wait till high tide.
The tide is low in the morning now.
Every tide has its ebb.
Slow and steady wins the race, but time and tide wait for no man.
I'm hungry so I'm going to make a snack to tide me over until dinner.

Movie subtitles

Here's a few yuan to tide you over.
But if it takes a little longer than we figure. I want to know if you and your associates. would be in a position to sort of tide us over.
Stick with us, and you'll come in on the tide.
King Philip will sail with the tide.
The tide is full. We must sail.
Came the turn of the tide and SempIe, he died.
What you probably feel is the melancholy of happiness that mood that comes over all of us when we realize that even love can't remain at flood tide forever.
So to those of these men. whose last resting place is beneath the sea they loved. we pay our humble tribute. as we cast these wreaths and flowers. upon the waters of their outgoing tide.
A car falling cliffs or that the tide carries you with your friend Jim while you talk quietly on the beach?
We were held up by the tide, and I lay all night on the deck. thinking of you and the years and years ahead without you.
Of course, that boat's been underwater for over a year, and the tide's been knocking her against the ridge, but it seemed to me the 'oles looked as if she'd made 'em from the inside.
And on the next tide, she sails.
I can take the tide out in an hour.
You can take the tide out tonight?
If the tide is full and the wind is with us, we'll sail.
The tide is full and the wind is with us.
We sail on the tide.
Aye, he went out with the tide, as you may say, Davy.
That one insane clash turned the tide in our favor.
Came the turn of the tide, Semple died.
We sail in the morning with the tide.
I believe the tide has turned against us.
But I'll swim against that tide just as far as you will, Cantrell.
The tide's going out now, but it'll be high water again before dark.
We'll have to run for it as soon as the tide's low enough.
A choice coach over the cliffs? Or perhaps you'd sooner be caught by the tide with our friend Jem here on a nice, comfortable, cosy part of the beach.
But we must keep in mind the tide of the times.
Or perhaps you'd sooner be caught by the tide with our friend Jem here on a nice, comfortable, cosy part of the beach. That's it.
Of course, that boat's been underwater for over a year, and the tide's been knocking her against the ridge.
Based on the Coast Guard tide reports.
Here's something to tide you over.
Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be washed off the next tide.
There'll be a fog, and the tide will turn after midnight.
The tide was out, so he went down.
When the tide's running, whirlpools form and you can hear the roar for miles.
It held until the tide turned.
If I can get it started before the tide turns, we've got a chance.
Tide's still with us.

News and current affairs

Now, it seems that the tide has turned against him.
Their active leadership, and that of others, is needed now more than ever to turn the tide.
A democratic tide seems to be sweeping across the Arab world.
After all, there can be no reliance on domestic consumption or private investment to turn the tide.
But a sovereign Scottish government might try to negotiate an exemption to this rule - and, in so doing, join the tide of other European countries seeking a way out of the great blunder that Europe's monetary union has turned out to be.
While it may seem hard to imagine that the speculative tide might ever turn against China, exchange-rate pressures can turn in an instant.
China's new leadership must address this rising tide of disaffection when calculating the pace with which to move ahead with WTO compliance.
But revolutionary breakthroughs in medicine were starting to turn the tide on these killers, and Indonesia's doctors were celebrated as heroes.
Is the democratic tide reversing?
Perhaps the moral and intellectual tide will be reversed, and America will remain exceptional for the reasons that Tocqueville identified two centuries ago.
The tide of disarmament is rising, yet the CD is in danger of sinking.
This rising tide of illiberalism makes avoiding a break-up of the eurozone or the EU ever more vital.
But, as the rising tide of tax evasion suggests, these mechanisms amount only to a cat game of and mouse problem - and the mice, it seems, are winning.
No amount of American intervention will turn the tide against bigotry and ignorance.
Will the tide truly turn, propelling the world towards nuclear disarmament and a future free of nuclear weapons?
A mistake in a presidential debate can turn the tide of public opinion overnight, as happened to President Gerald Ford in his debate with Jimmy Carter in 1976.
And only then could the US stem the rising tide of import penetration by foreign producers.
After all, it was fighters from Hezbollah, Iran's Lebanese proxy, who turned the tide of battle decisively against the opposition this past summer.
The tide of crisis, it seemed, had begun to turn, particularly after the German Constitutional Court upheld the European Stability Mechanism, Europe's bailout fund.
Meanwhile, Iran's unstoppable rush to develop nuclear weapons could prove to be a monument to the international community's failure to stem the atomic tide in the region.
The United States, as a major Middle East power, and Europe also have an interest in stemming the tide of nuclear proliferation that now threatens the Middle East.
But the last decade of the twentieth century was also indelibly stained by ethnic cleansing in ex-Yugoslavia and genocide in Rwanda, and during the current decade the tide has seemed to turn against the rights cause.

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