noun · verb · 20 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Sound
Pronunciation
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tīd
/taɪd/
[thaːd]Southern US, African-American Vernacular
US:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
Australian, New-Zealand:[thɑe̯d]
rhymes with -aɪd
homophone: tied
CMU ARPABET:T AY1 D
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
The Bristol Channel has some of the world's largest tides.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
The associated flow of water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
A lot of driftwood was brought in on the tide.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
Any similar gravitational effect on Earth or other body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
As well as sea tides, there are much smaller land tides.
By far the largest tides on Europa are those caused by the gravitational attraction of Jupiter.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
A high-volume flow, literal or figurative; a current or flood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
The sewer burst, and a tide of sewage poured into nearby properties.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
10
verb
Meaning 10
To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
11
verb
Meaning 11
To carry over or through a problem or difficulty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
12
verb
Meaning 12
To pour a tide or flood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, rare
Examples
The ocean tided most impressively.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
13
verb
Meaning 13
To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
14
verb
Meaning 14
To happen, occur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
15
noun
Meaning 15
the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: periodic event, recurrent event
Narrower terms: high tide, high water, highwater, low tide, low water, ebbtide, flood tide, flood, rising tide, leeward tide, lee tide, slack water, slack tide
16
noun
Meaning 16
something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
a rising tide of popular interest
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: variation, fluctuation
17
noun
Meaning 17
there are usually two high and two low tides each day
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lunar time period
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: time period, period of time, period
18
verb
Meaning 18
be carried with the tide
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: float, drift, be adrift, blow
19
verb
Meaning 19
cause to float with the tide
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: float
20
verb
Meaning 20
rise or move forward
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
surging waves
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: surge
Antonyms: ebb
Broader terms: run, flow, feed, course
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh2-der. Proto-Indo-European *deh2y- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *déh2itis Proto-Germanic *tīdiz Proto-West Germanic *tīdi Old English tīd Middle English tyde English tide Inherited from Middle English tyde, from Old English tīd, from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh2itis, from *deh2y- + *-tis. Related to time. Cognate with Dutch tijd (“time”), German Zeit (“time”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish tid (“time”), Faroese and Icelandic tíð (“time”).
From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English tīdan (“to happen”).
Across languages
Translations
108 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Afrikaans:
gety
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Afrikaans:
ty
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Arabic:
مَدّ وَجَزْر
(madd wa-jazr)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Azerbaijani:
qabarma-çəkilmə
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Belarusian:
прылі́ў
(prylíw)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Belarusian:
адлі́ў
(adlíw)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Biatah Bidayuh:
pasang
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Bulgarian:
прили́в
(prilív)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Bulgarian:
отли́в
(otlív)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Catalan:
marea
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Chinese Mandarin:
潮
(cháo)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Chinese Mandarin:
潮汐
(cháoxī)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Cornish:
mortid
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Czech:
příliv
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Czech:
odliv
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Danish:
tidevand
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Dutch:
getijde
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Dutch:
tij
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Esperanto:
tajdo
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Finnish:
vuorovesi
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
French:
marée
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Georgian:
მიქცევა-მოქცევა
(mikceva-mokceva)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Georgian:
მიქცევ-მოქცევა
(mikcev-mokceva)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
German:
Gezeiten
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
German:
Tide
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Greek:
παλίρροια
(palírroia)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Hindi:
ज्वारभाँटा
(jvārbhā̃ṭā)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Hungarian:
árapály
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Icelandic:
sjávarfall
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Ido:
mareo
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Indonesian:
pasang surut
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Irish:
taoide
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Italian:
marea
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Japanese:
潮
(shio)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Japanese:
潮汐
(chōseki)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Korean:
조석
(joseok)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Latin:
aestus
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Macedonian:
при́лив
(príliv)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Macedonian:
о́длив
(ódliv)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Maltese:
frugħ u mili tal-baħar
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Maltese:
marea
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Māori:
kōrihirihi
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Māori:
nga(h)ehe
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Norman:
mathée
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Norwegian Bokmål:
tidevann
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Norwegian Bokmål:
tidvatn
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Norwegian Nynorsk:
tidvatn
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Persian:
کشند
(kešand)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Polish:
pływ
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Polish:
przypływ
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Polish:
odpływ
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Portuguese:
maré
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Romanian:
maree
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Russian:
прили́в
(prilív)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Russian:
отли́в
(otlív)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Samoan:
tai
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Serbo-Croatian:
плима
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Serbo-Croatian:
прилив
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Serbo-Croatian:
осека
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Serbo-Croatian:
одлив
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Serbo-Croatian:
plima
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Serbo-Croatian:
priliv
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Serbo-Croatian:
oseka
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Serbo-Croatian:
odliv
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Slovak:
príliv
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Slovak:
odliv
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Slovene:
bibavica
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Slovene:
plimovanje
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Slovene:
plima
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Slovene:
oseka
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Spanish:
marea
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Swedish:
tidvatten
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Turkish:
gelgit
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Ukrainian:
припли́в
(pryplýv)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Ukrainian:
відпли́в
(vidplýv)
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Vietnamese:
thủy triều
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Walloon:
marêye
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Welsh:
llanw
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
Yámana:
sači
— periodic change of sea level — see also flood tide, ebb tide, high tide, low tide
