tide
1. the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon (Freq. 5)
• Derivationally related forms:
tidal
• Hypernyms:
periodic event, recurrent event
• Hyponyms:
high tide, high water, highwater, low tide, low water,
ebbtide, flood tide, flood, rising tide, leeward tide, lee tide,
slack water, slack tide
• Part Meronyms:
tidal flow, tidal current, riptide, rip current, undertide, undercurrent
2. something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea) (Freq. 1)
- a rising tide of popular interest
• Hypernyms:
variation, fluctuation
3. there are usually two high and two low tides each day
• Syn:
lunar time period
• Hypernyms:
time period, period of time, period
1. rise or move forward
- surging waves
• Syn:
surge
• Ant:
ebb
• Derivationally related forms:
surge (for: surge)
• Hypernyms:
run, flow, feed, course
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
2. cause to float with the tide
• See Also:
tide over
• Hypernyms:
float
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
3. be carried with the tide
• Hypernyms:
float, drift, be adrift, blow
• Verb Frames:
- Something is ----ing PP
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