TIDE

Meaning of TIDE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

flood tide

high tide

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High tide is at seven in the morning.

low tide

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You can walk across to the island at low tide.

neap tide

spring tide

stem the tide/flow/flood of sth

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The measures are meant to stem the tide of illegal immigration.

tide pool

turned the tide

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The victory turned the tide of the war in North Africa.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

high

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The seas around California are today warmer than at any time since 1957 and there are record high tides .

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When he comes down, it is like high tide along the shore-all the wet muddy places sparkle with life and motion.

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At high tides , sections of the line are submerged, whilst the sea scours away the track bed.

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That day, a high tide and strong winds brought flooding to coasts fringing the Firth of Clyde.

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Police in Essex and Kent issued flood warnings for yesterday afternoon's high tide and further problems were expected later.

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This commonly occurs at high tide .

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He had been walking on the riverbank observing a high tide .

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When there's a high tide they get sea water in their sitting rooms!

incoming

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The noise of the incoming tide had interrupted their games on the sand further out in the estuary.

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They write themselves, the way an incoming tide seeks its own level.

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But once she was alone with her knitting depression crept up on Leonora like an incoming tide .

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It was swamped by the incoming tide and sank at about 5am yesterday.

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She guessed they'd come about twenty yards inland; she could still hear the sigh and fall of the incoming tide .

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The striking of the half hour alerted me to the incoming tide of darkness.

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When the track splits at a sign warning of incoming tides , take the left fork towards the shore.

low

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At Lyness, the Thorsvoe noses in on the low tide .

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It hit us at lower tide .

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She imagined the castle, at low tide , grey, black, then silver in the changing light.

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The stench of low tide hung over the entire area, from the river all the way over to the Five Points.

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Near to them is Lindisfarne or Holy Isle which can only be reached by way of a causeway at low tide .

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It was always low tide in the Five Points.

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At low tide it is sometimes just possible to cross the channel without swimming.

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A count at low tide tallies nearly 800 rocks, reefs, islands and other features poking above the surface.

political

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But things change quickly at Ferrari and, in 1990, he found himself swimming against the political tide .

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With the bishops also back in the House of Lords, the political tide had now turned very markedly against the Puritans.

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But the political tide seemed to be flowing in a different direction.

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Plenty of work here for thinkers who can catch the political tide .

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But by then the political tide had shifted firmly against it.

rising

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If not, there will have been a real loss, which will no doubt add to the rising tide of semi-literacy.

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Is that snow wind's whine the same travelling still, the rising wind and tide reaching your body buried in sand?

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Otherwise every traffic jam will gradually vanish beneath a rising tide of its own foamy output.

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The steps were green with mould where the rising tide lapped against them.

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Trams stood marooned as they were engulfed by a rising tide of workers demanding a hearing.

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In fact, without his realizing it a rising tide of change was lapping around his ankles.

strong

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Avoid strong tides , offshore winds, poor visibility or sailing in the dark.

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Well, there was a strong el tide this summer.

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Local storms at sea and strong equinoctial tides may affect whale migration routes that pass close to the coast.

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It tugged at the coils of my hair as if it wanted to see them floating on its strong gray tides .

■ NOUN

ebb

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And she couldn't bear the thought of being sucked back into the ebb tide of loneliness again either.

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It was ebb tide and the current was in their favour.

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Flounders were plentiful, with many undersize fish caught on the ebb tide .

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But Grace wouldn't need them to go out to sea on the ebb tide .

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He had missed the ebb tide .

spring

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While the Conference met, high spring tides were oozing through the paving of the Piazza San Marco.

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Outside, the mob surged around me, retiring and returning like a spring tide .

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The highest of the spring tides might wash up all around the houseboat but it would never float again.

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They were helped by a Spring tide which caused extensive flooding and rendered all the fords impassable.

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A month later in the high spring tides , his body was washed up in Cadgwith Cove.

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But next day we were ready to take advantage of the high spring tide and fly.

turn

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Should the current tide turn , we will think about it with great pleasure and renewed confidence.

■ VERB

catch

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The enforced lie-in was welcome; we caught the tide and enjoyed a short, rough crossing to Taransay.

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Plenty of work here for thinkers who can catch the political tide .

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As the particles catch Lucifer's magnetic field, it is extended into space like a fishing net caught by the tide .

flow

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But the political tide seemed to be flowing in a different direction.

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They felt the tide would continue flowing their way.

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The tide was flowing strongly his way.

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How majestically he stands on one foot in the roiling surf as the tide flows in.

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He was in the office each day but the tide of work flowed around him.

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There is no doubt about the direction in which the intellectual tide is flowing .

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The sun will rise; the tides will flow .

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When the tide flows out, the current often flows straight out to sea washing any distressed windsurfer with it.

rise

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It rises with the tide , only no one's so daft as to stay and see how high.

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The 10, 000 welfare families are just the latest recruits in the rising tide of local poverty.

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Crime, unemployment and homelessness add to the rising tide of despair.

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A rising economic tide lifts not just spending but spirits, while a receding tide depresses people.

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It is said on the river that a Thames barge, once she has risen with the tide , never sinks completely.

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Everything was affected by the rising tide including the growth of moderate, pragmatic Socialism.

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Increasingly easy access to credit and lax credit checking procedures by lenders has contributed to the rising tide of debt.

stem

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Through this conservative normativist theory Dicey attempted to stem the tide of government growth in a collectivist direction.

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Even the great Chicago fire of 1871 could not stem the tide .

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Barnes managed to stem the tide a little by giving Liverpool a genuine attacking outlet.

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This illustrates the type of practical public health action that could be taken to stem the tide of obesity.

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By the closing rounds he was reduced to throwing wild haymakers in a desperate attempt to stem the tide .

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Only one way to stem the tide for Ireland: take out Figo.

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Both the Senate and the administration seemed powerless to stem the tide of hysteria.

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But even visions of breastfeeding could not stem the tide this time.

sweep

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For others it implied that the centuries-old problems of poverty and inequality had been swept away in the tide of prosperity.

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And he turned resolutely away and was swept with the tide down the tunnel to the plane.

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Then he learnt that she was the man's daughter, and frivolous thoughts were swept away on a tide of sympathy.

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He is sweeping along on a tide of revisionism.

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We are being swept away on a tide of picaresque Euromovies.

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Philip was as reluctant as Henry, but the two Kings were now swept along by the tide of public opinion.

swimming

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In promoting recycling as the best answer to waste disposal, environmentalists are therefore swimming against the tides of the market.

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A few lawmakers are swimming against the tide .

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But things change quickly at Ferrari and, in 1990, he found himself swimming against the political tide .

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There was no point in swimming against the tide .

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Carey bobbed like jetsam, always awkward even though Ellwood was swimming with the tide .

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We find ourselves swimming against the tide .

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The Treasury was swimming against the tide . 2.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

strong wind/current/tide

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A strong wind was now blowing and there was a loud crack of thunder.

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Disadvantages: Lack of volume, thus difficult to sail in all but strong winds.

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Firefighters must contend with steep canyons and the strong winds, not to mention hot and dry conditions.

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In very strong winds the critical place for ground handling is at the tail.

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Rip A strong current, commonly experienced on surf beaches.

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The same materials, thrown into the Martian atmosphere by strong winds, give the Martian sky a pinkish color.

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There was a strong wind blowing from the north.

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Toward late afternoon, a strong wind came up and the sky clouded over.

swim against the tide/current etc

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Light given out by distant galaxies has to swim against the tide of expansion to get to us.

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There s no point in you tryin to swim against the tide now, is there?

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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Driftwood on the beach was brought in by the tide .

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It is unclear who will pay for the tide of refugees flowing into the country.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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At high tides, sections of the line are submerged, whilst the sea scours away the track bed.

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Even the great Chicago fire of 1871 could not stem the tide .

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She couldn't resist the challenge of swimming back over the tide when the boys suggested it.

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Sometimes when the afternoon tide of heat reached its high mark, we would go over to the hotel.

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The tide turned when Tamerlane invaded their territory and in 1398 successfully raided Delhi, and sacked it without mercy.

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The young, the old, the frail are all sucked into its sweeping tide .

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They have repeatedly looked for a connection between crustal tides and earthquakes over the past few decades, but to no avail.

II. verb