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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'tide' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions tide noun  The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon A stream, current or flood. Let in the of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide. — Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, III-iv (obsolete) Time, period or season. This lusty summer's — Geoffrey Chaucer And rest their weary limbs a — Edmund Spenser Which, at the appointed , Each one did make his bride — Edmund Spenser At the tide of Christ his birth " Fuller? Something which changes like the tides of the sea. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current. There is a in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — Shakespeare. Julius Caesar, IV-iii (obsolete) Violent confluence — Francis Bacon (context, mining) The period of twelve hours. Translations:  Dutch: getijde , tij French: marée German: Gezeiten plural Spanish: marea (trans-bottom) (trans-top, a current or stream in sea or tidal river) verb (tid, ing) (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream. They are tided down the stream. — Feltham? (context, intransitive, obsolete) To betide; to happen. What should us tide of this new law? — Geoffrey Chaucer (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood. (context, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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