Definition of tide

"tide" in the noun sense

1. tide

the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon

2. tide

something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea

"a rising tide of popular interest"

3. tide, lunar time period

there are usually two high and two low tides each day

"tide" in the verb sense

1. tide, surge

rise or move forward

"surging waves"

2. tide

cause to float with the tide

3. tide

be carried with the tide

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Quotations for tide

Love has a tide. [ Helen Hunt ]

Every tide will have an ebb. [ Proverb ]

Pity swells the tide of love. [ Young ]

Time and tide tarry for no man. [ Proverb ]

No man can tether time or tide. [ Robert Burns ]

Time and tide will stop for no man. [ Proverb ]

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Rapt with zeal, pathetic, bold, and strong,
Roll'd the full tide of eloquence along. [ Falconer ]

What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. [ William Shakespeare ]

Sunbeams pour alike their glorious tide
To light up worlds or wake an insect's mirth. [ Keble ]

Ah many a storm love can safely outride,
But a secret at home is like rocks under tide. [ Dinah Muloch Craik ]

The ebb will fetch off what the tide brings in. [ Proverb ]

There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries:
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures. [ William Shakespeare ]

Over the river they beckon to me,
Loved ones who've crossed to the farther side;
The gleam of their snowy robes I see.
But their voices are drowned in the dashing tide. [ Nancy A. W. Priest ]

You may row your heart out, if the wind and tide set against you. [ Proverb ]

Pour the full tide of eloquence along, serenely pure, and yet divinely strong. [ Pope ]

What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind find tide. [ Shakespeare ]

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting for ever in one direction. [ Lowell ]

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him? [ Tillotson ]

Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it, and the record is gone. Example is engraven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost. [ William Ellery Channing ]

A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow. [ Smollett ]

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him. [ William Shakespeare ]

The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our dearest Brother, has brought human affection to its highest tide on the day of that Brother's birth. If God so loved us, how can we help loving one another? [ Maltbie Babcock ]

tide in Scrabble®

The word tide is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters tide:

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tide in Words With Friends™

The word tide is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

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Words containing the sequence tide

Word Growth involving tide

Shorter words in tide

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Longer words containing tide

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