English word senses marked with topical category "Tides"

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Total 38 word senses

• ebb (Verb) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
• ebb and flow (Verb) To alternately ebb and flow, as:; To recede and advance.
• ebb and flow (Verb) To alternately ebb and flow, as:; To wax and wane.
• ebb tide (Noun) The period between high tide and the next low tide in which the sea is receding.
• flood tide (Noun) The period between low tide and the next high tide in which the sea is rising.
• galactic cannibalism (Noun) The process by which a large galaxy, through tidal gravitational interactions with a companion, merges with that companion, resulting in a larger, often irregular galaxy.
• high tide (Noun) The natural tide at its highest level for a particular tidal cycle at a certain place.
• high tide (Noun) The time of day when the sea has risen to its highest level.
• high tide (Noun) A climax, culminating point or phase.
• intertidal (Noun) An intertidal zone or an organism that inhabits such a zone
• intertidal zone (Noun) The part of a shore between high water and low water, especially the beach exposed at maximum ebb spring tides.
• king tide (Noun) An unusually high spring tide that occurs during full moon in the summer and winter months (when the earth is at perihelion and the earth, moon and sun are aligned).
• littoral zone (Noun) The intertidal zone
• low tide (Noun) The time of day when the sea has receded to its lowest level.
• neap (Adjective) Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is the least difference between high tide and low tide.
• neap tide (Noun) The tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide.
• proxigean spring tide (Noun) An unusually high high tide that occurs when the Moon is at its closest point in its orbit to the Earth and in its new or full moon phase
• salt marsh (Noun) A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.
• salting (Noun) The celebration of the Eton montem.
• spring (Noun) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly; The rising of the sea at high tide.
• spring tide (Noun) The tide which occurs when the moon is new or full; the effects of the Sun and moon being reinforced so that this tide is of maximum range.
• tidal (Adjective) Relating to tides.
• tidal bore (Noun) A wave, in the form of a wall of water, formed by an incoming tide funnelling into an estuary.
• tidal current (Noun) The flow of water caused by the rise and fall of the tide.
• tidal energy (Noun) The energy contained in a tide flowing in or out of an estuary or similar enclosed place, especially that part of the energy that can be converted to electricity.
• tidal flat (Noun) The bed of a tidal river, estuary, or shallow sea such as the Wadden Sea which is uncovered at low tide.
• tidal force (Noun) Any of various gravitational forces acting on a body caused by variation in the distance between it and a source of a gravitational field; such forces due to the Moon are responsible for tides.
• tidal lock (Noun) Alternative form of tidal locking
• tidal locking (Noun) The locking of the rotation of a satellite (moon or planet) to its orbit, such that one side always faces the body around which it is orbiting.
• tidal power (Noun) Tidal energy.
• tidal wave (Noun) A large and sudden rise and fall in the tide.
• tidal wave (Noun) A large, sudden, and disastrous wave of water caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean; a tsunami. (See Usage notes below.)
• tidal wave (Noun) A large, sudden inundation of water from the storm surge, or waves of that surge; a sudden surge of river water.
• tidal wave (Noun) A sudden and powerful surge.
• tidal wave (Noun) A crest of ocean water; a wave.
• tidal wave (Noun) A crest of ocean water resulting from tidal forces.
• tidally locked (Adjective) Having undergone tidal locking.
• tide (Noun) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.

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