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

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.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, 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 ↗, [Act III, scene iv], page 88 ↗, column 1:

     Go I charge thee, inuite them all, let in the tide / Of Knaues once more: my Cook and Ile 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, wsource Prothalamion:

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

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 ↗, [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

• French: marée
• German: Gezeiten, Tide
• Italian: marea
• Portuguese: maré
• Russian: прили́в
• Spanish: marea

• German: Strom, Strömung
• Russian: пото́к

• Russian: вре́мя

• French: tendance
• German: Trend, Lauf, Gang, Tendenz
• Russian: направле́ние

tide (tides, present participle tiding; past and past participle tided)

1. (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.

   • 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 (tides, present participle tiding; past and past participle tided)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.

• betide, befall