Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The incoming or rising tide; the period between low water and the succeeding high water.
- n. A climax or high point: a flood tide of fears.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The rising tide. See flood, n., 4, and tide.
Wiktionary
- n. the period between low tide and the next high tide in which the sea is rising
- n. by extension the highest point of something; a climax
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the rising tide; -- opposed to
ebb tide .
WordNet 3.0
- n. the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
- n. the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Examples
“Before the flood tide of evil came upon this young and happy household, however, another sad event swept over the Vanross family and left its weight of woe upon the weakening faith and hope of Hortense.”
“Here we lay in hiding all day, and on the following night, swept on by a flood tide and a fresh wind, we crossed San Pablo Bay in two hours and ran up Petaluma Creek.”
“The carton spilled its contents and the flood tide of cash reached Finlay’s polished shoes.”
“The first of the flood tide was setting in, when we ran below where we thought the line was stretched and dropped over a fishing-boat anchor.”
“But he had a flood tide of advertising—and until the very end, we overflew Ohio as we shuttled from California to New Jersey, with brief pit stops in other states.”
“In the evening we came to, at the south end of St. Simons, having been hindred by the flood tide making against us.”
“The old Anglo-Roman families—my father’s being first among them—banded together and held off the invaders for a while, but the flood tide that washed up against Britain could not long be repulsed.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flood tide’.
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Times and Tides
Words pertaining to the oceans' tides; words describing seasons or portions of time that contain the searchable string *tide.
*tide, no-tide, tidewater, amphidromic, tide, tidal, cotidal, noontide, Yuletide, eventide, Whitsuntide, Passiontide and 99 more...
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Written on Water
An eclectic list of words pertaining to and describing water.
"...I am the faithful husband of the rain,
I love the water of wells and springs
and the taste of roofs in the...water, rain, cistern, thirst, dead-water, eddy-water, surge, flood, ebb, fluid, flow, liquor amnii and 202 more...
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ENVI - Collocations DEFG
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
dactylis glomerata, daily allowance, daily contact zone, daily cycle of tides, daily intake level, daily mortality rate, daily office and ..., daily peak, daily range in va..., daily runoff regu..., daily SO2 levels, dairy cattle and 5213 more...
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The Waves
In the water. See also waves-and-waveforms.
comber, groundswell, wavelet, tidal wave, billow, breaker, seiche, mirobia, rolling wave, surge, swell, bow-wave and 40 more...
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