Definition of "tide"

tide¹

/taɪd/

noun
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.
  Quotations
  Go I charge thee, inuite them all, let in the tide / Of Knaues once more: my Cook and Ile provide.
  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, [Act III, scene iv], page 88, column 1
3. (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
  Quotations
  [...] and rest their weary limbs a tide.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza xxix
  Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde
  1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion
  at the tide / Of Christ his birth
  1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII‎
  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[.]
  1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, (please specify the book or page number)
4. (regional, archaic) A time.
5. (regional, archaic) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
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.
  Quotations
  There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune [...]
  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, [Act IV, scene iii]
9. (obsolete) Violent confluence
  Quotations
  strong Tide
  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
verb
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.
  Quotations
  They are tided down the stream.
  1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
2. (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.
3. (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

tide²

/taɪd/

verb
third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided
1. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.
  Quotations
  I wit not what may tide us here
  1779, David Dalrymple, Annals of Scotland‎, volume II, page 121

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