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Definitioner
Substantiv
- 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.
- (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
- (mining) The period of twelve hours.
- Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
- Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
- (obsolete) Violent confluence — Francis Bacon
Verb
- (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.
- (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.
- What should us tide of this new law? — Chaucer.
- (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
Exempel
- Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide. — Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, III-iv
- And rest their weary limbs a tide — Edmund Spenser
- Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride — Edmund Spenser
- At the tide of Christ his birth — Fuller
- There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — Shakespeare. Julius Caesar, IV-iii
- They are tided down the stream.
- The ocean tided most impressively, even frightening
- Easter-tide, Christmas-tide.
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