tide

See also: Tide, tìde, and -tide

English

Boats at low tide (periodic change of sea level).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tīd, IPA^(key): /taɪd/
• (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) IPA^(key): [tʰaːd]

• Audio (US):

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): [tʰɑe̯d]
• Rhymes: -aɪd
• Homophone: tied

Etymology 1

From Middle English tyde, tide, tyd, tid (“time”), from Old English tīd (“time”), from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to time.

Cognates

Cognate with Scots tide, tyde (“moment, time, occasion, period, tide”), North Frisian tid (“time”), West Frisian tiid (“time, while”), Dutch tijd (“time”), Dutch tij, getij (“tide of the sea”), Afrikaans tyd (“time”), Low German Tied, Tiet (“time”), Low German Tide (“tide of the sea”), German Zeit (“time”), German Tide, Gezeiten (“tide of the sea”), Danish tid (“time”), Swedish tid (“time”), Icelandic tíð (“time”), Albanian ditë (“day”), Old Armenian տի (ti, “age”), Northern Kurdish dem (“time”).

Noun

tide (plural tides)

1. The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
2. A stream, current or flood.

   Synonyms: inflood, inflooding, inflow, inflowing, influx

   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 88, column 1:

     Go I charge thee, inuite them all, let in the tide / Of Knaues once more: my Cook and Ile provide.

3. (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza xxix:

     [...] and rest their weary limbs a tide.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:

     Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII‎^[1]:

     at the tide / Of Christ his birth

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     What is singular too, the spademen seem to work lazily; they will not work double-tides, even for offer of more wages, though their tide is but seven hours[.]

4. (regional, archaic) A time.

   The doctor's no good this tide.

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

   Eventide, noontide, morrowtide, nighttide, moontide, harvesttide, wintertide, summertide, springtide, autumntide etc.,.

6. (mining) The period of twelve hours.
7. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
8. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune [...]

9. (obsolete) Violent confluence
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     strong Tide

Derived terms

• a rising tide lifts all boats
• Ascensiontide
• astronomical tide
• atmospheric tide
• buck the tide
• Christmastide
• crimson tide
• critical tide level
• Eastertide
• ebb tide
• flood tide
• gravitational tide
• half-tide
• high tide
• hurricane tide
• inferior tide
• king tide
• land tide
• low tide
• meal-tide
• neap tide
• oceanic tide
• Passiontide
• pink tide
• proxigean spring tide
• red tide
• rip tide
• Rogationtide
• roll tide
• spring tide
• stem the tide
• storm tide
• summertide
• terrestrial tide
• thermal tide
• tidal
• tidal wave
• -tide
• tide crack
• tide current
• tide day
• tide dial
• tide-driven
• tide duty
• tide gate
• tide gauge
• tide harbour
• tide hour
• tide land
• tidelands oil
• tideless
• tide lock
• tidely
• tide mark
• tide mill
• Tide Mills
• tide nor time tarrieth no man
• tide pole
• tide pool
• tide power
• tide predictor
• tide railroad
• tide range
• tide rip
• tide rock
• tide rode
• tide-rode
• tide runner
• tidesman
• tide stream
• tide surveyor
• tide table
• tide waiter
• tidewater
• tide wave
• tide way
• tide wheel
• tidy
• time and tide
• time and tide stay for no man
• time and tide tarry for no man
• time and tide wait for no man
• turn the tide
• Whitsuntide
• wintertide
• work double tides

Translations

periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide,‎ ebb tide,‎ high tide,‎ low tide

• Afrikaans: gety, ty
• Arabic: مَدّ وَجَزْر (madd wa-jazr)
• Belarusian: прылі́ў m (prylíŭ) (high tide), адлі́ў m (adlíŭ) (low tide)
• Biatah Bidayuh: pasang
• Bulgarian: прили́в (bg) m (prilív) (high tide), отли́в (bg) m (otlív) (low tide)
• Catalan: marea (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 潮 (zh) (cháo), 潮汐 (zh) (cháoxī)

• Czech: příliv (cs) m (high tide), odliv (cs) m (low tide)
• Danish: tidevand (da) n
• Dutch: getijde (nl) n, tij (nl) n
• Esperanto: tajdo
• Finnish: vuorovesi (fi)
• French: marée (fr) f
• Georgian: მიქცევა-მოქცევა (mikceva-mokceva), მიქცევ-მოქცევა (mikcev-mokceva)
• German: Gezeiten (de) pl, Tide (de) f
• Greek: παλίρροια (el) f (palírroia)
• Hindi: ज्वारभाँटा (jvārbhā̃ṭā)
• Hungarian: árapály (hu)
• Icelandic: sjávarfall (is) n
• Ido: mareo (io)
• Indonesian: pasang surut (id)
• Irish: taoide f
• Italian: marea (it) f
• Japanese: 潮 (ja) (しお, shio), 潮汐 (ja) (ちょうせき, chōseki)
• Korean: 조석(潮汐) (ko) (joseok)
• Latin: aestus (la) m
• Macedonian: при́лив m (príliv) (high tide); о́длив m (ódliv) (low tide)
• Maltese: frugħ u mili tal-baħar, (slightly learned) marea f
• Maori: kōrihirihi, nga(h)ehe
• Norman: mathée f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tidevann (no) n, tidvatn (no) n

  Nynorsk: tidvatn n

• Persian: کشند (fa) (kešand)
• Polish: pływ (pl) m inan, przypływ (pl) m inan (high tide), odpływ (pl) m inan (low tide)
• Portuguese: maré (pt) m
• Romanian: maree (ro) f
• Russian: прили́в (ru) m (prilív) (high tide), отли́в (ru) m (otlív) (low tide)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плима f, прилив m (high tide); осека f, одлив m (low tide)

  Roman: plima (sh) f, priliv (sh) m (high tide); oseka (sh) f, odliv (sh) m (low tide)

• Slovak: príliv m (high tide), odliv m (low tide)
• Slovene: bibavica (sl) f, plimovanje n; plima (sl) f (high tide), oseka (sl) f (low tide)
• Spanish: marea (es)
• Swedish: tidvatten (sv) n
• Turkish: gelgit (tr)
• Ukrainian: припли́в m (pryplýv) (flood tide), відпли́в m (vidplýv) (ebb tide)
• Vietnamese: thủy triều (vi)
• Walloon: marêye f
• Welsh: llanw (cy) m, llanwau m pl
• Yámana: sači

current, stream, flood

• Bulgarian: пото́к (bg) m (potók), тече́ние (bg) n (tečénie)
• Finnish: virta (fi), virtaus (fi); tulva (fi), hyöky
• German: Strom (de) m, Strömung (de) f
• Greek: ρεύμα (el) n (révma)
• Italian: corso (it) m
• Macedonian: по́ток (mk) m (pótok), тек m (tek)
• Russian: пото́к (ru) m (potók), тече́ние (ru) n (tečénije)
• Welsh: aches m

time, notably liturgical anniversary or season

• Dutch: getijde (nl) n
• Finnish: aika (fi)
• Macedonian: вре́ме n (vréme)
• Russian: вре́мя (ru) n (vrémja)

mining: period of twelve hours

something which changes like the tides of the sea

• Finnish: vuorovesi (fi)

tendency or direction of causes, influences or events; course; current

• Finnish: virta (fi)
• French: tendance (fr) f
• German: Trend (de) m, Lauf (de) m, Gang (de) m, Tendenz (de) f
• Greek: ροπή (el) f (ropí)
• Russian: направле́ние (ru) n (napravlénije)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} pasang (id)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} marea
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} ström (sv)
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} taid

Verb

tide (third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided)

1. (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.

2. (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.

   The ocean tided most impressively.

3. (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

Derived terms

• tide over

Translations

cause to float with the tide

• Dutch: met het getij meevoeren met de vloed meevoeren
• Greek: πάω με το ρεύμα (páo me to révma)

See also

• ebb
• flow
• neap
• spring

References

The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English tīdan (“to happen”).

Verb

tide (third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.
   • 1779, David Dalrymple, Annals of Scotland‎^[2], volume II, page 121:

     I wit not what may tide us here

Synonyms

• betide, befall

Anagrams

• DIET, Diet, diet, dite, diët, edit, edit., tied

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

tide

1. Alternative form of tyde (“time”)

Etymology 2

Adjective

tide

1. Alternative form of tydy

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːd/

Noun

tide m or f

1. dative form of tid

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tide f

1. dative form of tid

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.de/

Noun

tīde

1. inflection of tīd:
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

See also

Seasons in Old English · tīde (layout · text) · category
lencten (“spring”)	sumor (“summer”)	hærfest (“autumn”)	winter (“winter”)

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English today.

Adverb

tide

1. today

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈti.de]

Noun

tide

1. the tide or tide-tide dance

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh