EBB AND FLOW

Definition: EBB AND FLOW

EBB AND FLOW

1. The alternate ebb and flood of the tide; often used figuratively. This alternation between unhealthy activity and depression, this ebb and flow of the industrial. --A. T. Hadley.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Evolution

Fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker; wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and down, bob up and down; AdVerb: pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go; vacillate; teeter.

Alternation; coming and going; Verb: ebb and flow, flux and reflux, ups and down.

Crosswords: EBB AND FLOW

That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky)

Life in Ebb and Flow (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Marriage in Motion: The Natural Ebb and Flow of Lasting Relationships (reference)

• Kosmos: the Eternal Ebb and Flow of Matter and Force Yielding Life Infinite and Eternal as to Time and Space (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Front elevation. Photograph by John P. O'Neill, March 3, 1937. (Reproduction Number: HABS, ARIZ,10-TUCSO.V,3-5) The Mission of San Xavier del Bac is generally considered one of the most beautiful of the Spanish missions in the United States. In 1797 the church was constructed of adobe on a site that had been a mission since the beginning of the 1700s. It is shown here following restoration work completed in the early 1900's. The history of the mission mirrors the ebb and flow of the Spanish presence in the southwest. Credit: Library of Congress.

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There was a kind of vague ebb and flow in his brain

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Economic History

Belgium

Geographically and culturally, Belgium is at the crossroads of Europe, and during the past 2,000 years has witnessed a constant ebb and flow of different races and cultures. (references)

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Albanian

baticë-zbaticë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مد و جزر (tide). (various references)

Bulgarian 

прилив и отлив (tide). (various references)

Czech

odliv a příliv. (various references)

Finnish

vuoksi ja luode (tide), luode ja vuoksi. (various references)

French

monter et baisser, flux monter et descendre. (various references)

German

ebbe und flut (tide, tides), auf und ab (back and forth, heave, reciprocation, seesaw, to and fro, undulation, up and down). (various references)

Hebrew 

�'אות ושפל (tide). (various references)

Hungarian

apály és dagály (tide). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

浮沈 (floating and sinking, rise and fall, ups and downs). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょうちょう (ministries and government offices, prosperity and decay, rise and fall, small intestine, symbol, the authorities, ups and downs), ま�"か�", さしひき (balance, deduction, rise and fall, subtraction), ふち�" (floating and sinking, rise and fall, ups and downs), か�"ま�" (dull, slow, sluggish), いっし�"いったい (fluctuating, now advancing and now retreating, seesawing), みちひき, みちひ. (various references)

Pig Latin

ebbay anday owflay.(various references)

Russian 

превратности судьбы (ups and downs, whirligig of time). (various references)

Spanish

flujo y reflujo. (various references)

Swedish

ebb och flod (tide). (various references)

Turkish

met cezir (flux and reflux, tide), gelgit (flux and reflux, tide, tides). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: bondable.

-3 letters: dowable, nobbled, ownable, wabbled, wobbled.

-4 letters: albedo, bawled, blawed, blonde, blowed, bowled, dabble, doable, enfold, fabled, fawned, flawed, flowed, foaled, fobbed, fondle, fowled, loafed, loaned, lobbed, nabbed, nobble, wabble, wandle, wobble, wolfed.

-5 letters: abode, adobe, adown, alone, anode, anole, awned, babel, baled, baned, beano, below, blade, bland, blawn, blend, blond, blown, boned.