Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Relating to or affected by tides: the tidal maximum; tidal pools; tidal waters.
- adj. Dependent on or scheduled by the time of high tide: a tidal ferry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to a tide or the tides; subject to or characterized by a periodical rise and fall or ebb and flow: as, a tidal river; tidal waters; a tidal basin.
- Dependent on the tides: as, a tidal steamer (that is, a steamer the hour of whose departure is regulated by the state of the tide); tidal trains (that is, trains that run in connection with tidal steamers).
- Figuratively, a wide-spread or general manifestation of strong feeling or sentiment: as, a tidal wave of popular indignation.
Wiktionary
- adj. relating to tides
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or caused by tides
Etymologies
- From tide + -al (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid, which is only what they call a tidal islet, and, except, in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or, at the most, by wading.”
“A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid; which is only what they call a tidal islet; and except in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or at the most by wading.”
“A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid; which is only what they call a tidal islet, and except in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or at the most by wading.”
“Rep. Paul Ryan, standing, briefs fellow House Republicans on what he calls the "tidal wave" of debt the country faces.”
“Tidal heating can too, for what they call "tidal Venuses.”
“WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House stepped up attacks Sunday on what it described as a tidal wave of secret outside money pouring into Republican campaign ads ahead of November 2”
“This project has the potential to travel to destinations that are further removed from the sea to inspire and kindle the imagination, and bring the sea to people who might not have ever experienced the marvel of exploring the thriving biodiversity found in tidal waters.”
“But as long as they are caught in tidal waters, no license is required.”
“They come in tidal waves, one or two at a time, completely submerging my every day life until I break down and write something.”
“You see, a novel is like a sandwich… wait, no, that’s not right…” «
“And unlike most of their East Coast counterparts -- who commonly dredge submerged shellfish beds from boats -- Puget Sound oyster growers typically seed beds in tidal shelves right off the beaches, and walk out to tend them and harvest when the tide is down.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tidal’.
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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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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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ficciones's list
encyclopedic
imbroglio, splendour, brilliance, labyrinth, vast, precipice, ebb and flow, tidal, crevasse, resonate, redolent, prudent and 55 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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imogen's Words
coagitate, cloche, harum-scarum, foxglove, cryptolect, cant, roux, angora, duff, ulysse, schadenfreude, pepperpot and 315 more...
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Malachi_Constant's Words
triumverate, pandemic, parsnip, delineate, zamboni, parka, laser, swoop, malevolent, benevolent, fracas, tipsy and 372 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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getting started.
just trying this out.
portmanteau, tidal, alluvial, muse, mercurial, cappadocia, fire-sky, silhouette, plum, decoy, guardian, fawn and 4 more...
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coastal
tidal, strait, shore, peninsula, barnacle, wharf, shoal, pebble, halyard, kiosk, kayak, beachcomber and 5 more...
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❀ ✿ ✺ words for nature
words dealing with nature, flowers, animals, the sea, etc.
gloaming, geodesic, aeolian, gyre, loamy, honeysuckle, musk, love-lies-bleeding, thistle, etiolated, tidal, filament and 37 more...
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sailing
ballast, beam, boom, bow, bowsprit, bridge, buoy, chart, cockpit, current, davits, deck and 86 more...
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Words I like
I like these words because I think they flow and sound okay
love, writhe, pulse, live, thank you, breathe, liquify, vanish, stopper, macadamia, jaundiced, Leviathan and 61 more...
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words about water
words about forms of water, places of water, movements of water.
estuary, tributary, effluvial, alluvial, river, bay, pond, playa lake, tidal, bayou, cloud, cumulonimbus and 63 more...
Tweets
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GHibbs It sounds as though it might also be used as a singular noun. 'That river is tidal for many miles.' Oct 31, 2011