tide flow

  • 21tide — tide1 [tīd] n. [ME, tide, time, season < OE tid, time; akin to Ger zeit < IE * dī , var. of base * da(i) , to part, divide up > TIME, Sans dāti, (he) cuts off, Gr dēmos, district, people] 1. Obs. a period of time: now only in combination …

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  • 22flow — ► VERB 1) move steadily and continuously in a current or stream. 2) move or issue forth steadily and freely: people flowed into the courtyard. 3) (often as adj. flowing) hang loosely and elegantly. 4) (of the sea or a tidal river) move towards… …

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  • 23tide|less — «TYD lihs», adjective. having no tide; without ebb and flow …

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  • 24tide|wa|ter — «TYD WT uhr, WOT », noun, adjective. –n. 1. water in rivers and streams affected by the rise and fall of the tides. 2. water that is brought by the flood tide and overflows land. 3. low lying land along a seacoast through which tides flow. 4. the …

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  • 25flow — [n] issue, abundance breeze, continuance, continuation, continuity, course, current, deluge, discharge, draft, draw, dribble, drift, ebb, effusion, electricity, emanation, flood, flux, gush, juice, leakage, movement, oozing, outflow, outpouring,… …

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  • 26tide — n flood, *flow, stream, current, flux …

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  • 27tide — [n] flow, current course, direction, drag, drift, ebb, eddy, flood, flux, movement, race, run, rush, sluice, spate, stream, tendency, torrent, trend, undercurrent, undertow, vortex, wave, whirlpool; concept 514 …

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  • 28flow — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, Brownian movement, abound, abundance, accrue from, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, air flow, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, angular motion, appropriateness, arise, arise from, ascend,… …

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  • 29tide — The ebb and flow of the sea. As affecting determination of upland boundary of shore, tide is rising and falling of water of the sea that is produced by attraction of sun and moon, uninfluenced by special winds, seasons or other circumstances, and …

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  • 30tide gate — Synonyms and related words: aboideau, air lock, direct tide, dock gate, ebb, ebb and flow, ebb tide, flood, flood tide, flood hatch, floodgate, flow, flux, flux and reflux, full tide, gate, head gate, high tide, high water, lock, lock gate, low… …

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