tide
潮汐,潮流,潮水,潮流趋势
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Definitions
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- : the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- : the inflow, outflow, or current of water at any given place resulting from the waves of tides.
- : flood tide.
- : a stream or current.
- : anything that alternately rises and falls, increases and decreases, etc.: the tide of the seasons.
- : current, tendency, or drift, as of events or ideas: the tide of international events.
- : any extreme or critical period or condition: The tide of her illness is at its height.
- : a season or period in the course of the year, day, etc.: wintertide; eventide.
- : Ecclesiastical. a period of time that includes and follows an anniversary, festival, etc.
- : Archaic. a suitable time or occasion.
- : Obsolete. an extent of time.
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tid·ed, tid·ing.
- : to flow as the tide; flow to and fro.
- : to float or drift with the tide.
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tid·ed, tid·ing.
- : to carry, as the tide does.
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- : tide over, to assist in getting over a period of difficulty or distress.to surmount; survive.
Phrases
- tide over
- stem the tide
- swim against the current (tide)
- swim with the tide
- time and tide
- turn of the tide
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Northeast Harbor and Southwest Harbor both have boat ramps at the sound’s mouth, but time your trip carefully—an outgoing tide will test your strength.
This is an effort to stem the tide of covid-related illness and death that has swept through nursing homes and assisted-living facilities — 37 percent of all covid-19 deaths as of mid-January.
With the tide rising toward stakeholder capitalism, it’s time to leverage tools of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to make intersectional gender equity a reality, to make stakeholder capitalism a reality, and to catapult our economic recovery.
“They’re moving slowly in terms of their merger and haven’t had a clear story, but the tides seem to be changing,” said the second agency executive.
It all adds up to an anti-globalization tide the world over.
But the tide was turning on this issue, an email from another constituent made clear.
Instead of decorating every face on the street, Google Glass hit a contrarian rip tide.
Objectively, they are not just riding with the tide, but helping to guide its very direction.
But before a new tide of tourists can flow from Miami to Havana, Cuba will need to build more runways.
But then, once this swelling tide has receded, what happens?
His ear, his brain, his muscles take on a new joyous activity, and the tide of life rises higher.
They climbed another dune, and came upon the great gray sea at low tide.
It seemed; it truly seemed as if the tide of blue, grey, scarlet specks was submerging the enemy's strongholds.
The blood rushed in a hot tide into the girl's pale wet face, and yet she shivered as if an arrow had pierced her heart.
We were mere atoms in a vast wave of horn and bone and flesh that bore us onward as the tide floats driftwood.