tide
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Is tide a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.Examples: "[...] and rest their weary limbs a tide."; "Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde"; "at the tide / Of Christ his birth"obsolete
2. (regional, archaic) A time.Examples: "The doctor's no good this tide."archaicregional
3. (regional, archaic, in compounds) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier.Examples: "Eventide, noontide, morrowtide, nighttide, moontide, harvesttide, wintertide, summertide, springtide, autumntide etc."archaicin-compoundsregional
4. (mining) The period of twelve hours.
5. (obsolete) Violent confluence.Examples: "strong Tide"obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.Examples: "They are tided down the stream."transitive
2. (by extension, originally from the idea of being carried by the tide, now chiefly in the phrase tide over) To carry over or through a problem or difficulty.broadly
3. (intransitive, rare) To pour a tide or flood.Examples: "The ocean tided most impressively."intransitiverare
4. (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.intransitive
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.Examples: "I wit not what may tide us here"Synonyms: betide, befallintransitiveobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary