tide

• enPR: tīd, IPA^(key): /taɪd/
• (AAVE) IPA^(key): /taːd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd
• Homophone: tied

From Middle English tide, from Old English tīd (“time, period, season, while; hour; feast-day, festal-tide; canonical hour or service”), from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz (“time, period”), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis (“time, period”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Cognate with Scots tide, tyde (“moment, time, occasion, period, tide”), North Frisian tid (“time”), West Frisian tiid (“time, while”), Dutch tijd (“time”), Dutch tij, getij (“tide of the sea”), Low German Tied, Tiet (“time”), Low German Tide (“tide of the sea”), German Zeit (“time”), Danish tid (“time”), Swedish tid (“time”), Icelandic tíð (“time”), Albanian ditë (“day”), Old Armenian տի (ti, “age”), Kurdish dem (“time”). Related to time.

tide (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.
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens, Act III scene iv

     Let in the tide / Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.

3. (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 1, canto II, stanza xxix:

     and rest their weary limbs a tide.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:

     Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII‎:

     at the tide / Of Christ his birth

4. (regional, archaic) A time.

   The doctor's no good this tide.

5. (regional, archaic) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).

   Eventide, noontide, morrowtide, nighttide, moon-tide, harvest-tide, wintertide, summertide, springtide, autumn-tide etc.,.

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.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):

     , Act IV scene iii

     There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune

9. (obsolete) Violent confluence

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

tide (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.
   • Feltham

     They are tided down the stream.

2. (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.

   The ocean tided most impressively.

3. (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

• tide over

• ebb
• flow
• neap
• spring

The Dictionary of the Scots Language

From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English tīdan (“to happen”).

tide (third-person singular simple present tides, present participle tiding, simple past and past participle tided)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.
   • 1779, David Dalrymple, Annals of Scotland‎, volume II, page 121:

     I wit not what may tide us here

• betide, befall

• DIET, Diet, diet, dite, diët, edit, edit., tied

• tid, tyd

tide

1. A time (period), season.

   This lusty summer’s tide — Geoffrey Chaucer

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     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[.]

• betide

tide m or f

1. dative form of tid

tide f

1. dative form of tid

tīde

1. plural of tīd
2. accusative singular of tīd
3. genitive singular of tīd
4. dative singular of tīd
5. accusative plural of tīd

From English today.

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