tide

  1. Noun.  The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
  2. Noun.  A stream, current or flood.
  3. Noun.  (context, chronology) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
  4. Noun.  (mining) The period of twelve hours.
  5. Noun.  Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
  6. Noun.  Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
  7. Noun.  (obsolete) Violent confluence — Francis Bacon.
  8. Verb.  (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
  9. Verb.  (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.
  10. Verb.  (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
  11. Verb.  (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.

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