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EBB TIDE

Definition: EBB TIDE

EBB TIDE

1. The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: EBB TIDE

DomainDefinitions

Geography

The period between high and low water ; tide during period between high water and following low water ; tidal current moving away from land or down a tidal stream ; Reflux of the tide; the receding of sea water ; the actual falling of the tide from high water to the next low water. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms within Context: EBB TIDE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dryness

Noun: dryness. Adjective: siccity, aridity, drought, ebb tide, low water.

Insufficiency

Emptiness, poorness; Adjective:; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb tide; low water; " a beggarly account of empty boxes "; indigence; insolvency; (nonpayment).

Lowness

Low water; low tide, ebb tide, neap tide, spring tide.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: EBB TIDE

English words defined with "EBB TIDE": Current wheelEbb and flowFalling tide, flood tideHalf tidelow tide, low waterTide wheel. (references)
Specialty definitions using "EBB TIDE": agitation dredgingreversing current. (references)

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Modern Usage: EBB TIDE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Ebb Tide (1937)

Song Titles

Ebb Tide (performing artist: The Righteous Brothers)

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

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Commercial Usage: EBB TIDE

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EBB TIDE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ebb tide

49

ebb tide boat

9

nino the ebb tide

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: EBB TIDE

Language Translations for "EBB TIDE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Zbaticë (ebb, reflux). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فترةإنحسار, ‏جزرالبحر (ebb), ‏جزر البحر (tide). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Отлив. (various references)

   

Czech

  

odliv (ebb, low tide). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ebbe (ebb, fall of the water, falling tide, low tide, low water), faldende vande (ebb, fall of the water, falling tide), faldende tidevand (ebb, falling tide). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

eb (ebb, European Movement, falling tide, low tide, low water), vallend water (ebb, falling tide, subsiding water). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pakovesi (ebb, falling tide, low tide), luode (ebb, falling tide, low tide, low water, north-west, recession), laskuvesi (ebb, falling tide, low water, recession), laskeva vesi (ebb, falling tide). (various references)

   

French

  

reflux (ebb), perdant (ebb), période de déclin, marée descendante (ebb), marée descend, jusant (ebb), baissée (ebb). (various references)

   

German

  

Ebbe (ebb, falling tide, low tide, low water, recession, tide). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατιούσα παλίρροια (ebb, falling tide), άμπωτις (ebb, fall of the water, falling tide, low tide, low water). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שפל "מים (low tide). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Apály (ebb, ebb-tide, low tide, low water, neap). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

air pasang. (various references)

   

Italian

  

riflusso di marea (ebb, falling tide), riflusso (backflow, backwash, ebb, falling tide, low tide, reflux), marea calante (ebb, falling tide), discesa dell'acqua (ebb, fall of the water, falling tide). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

衰微 (decadence, decline). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たいちょう (commanding officer, leaving one's office, length of an animal, physical condition, waning fortunes), すいたい (decadence, decay, decline, declining, drunkenness, intoxication, presided over by, waning, weaken, weakening), すいび (decadence, decline), しおま, ひきしお (low tide), さ'しお, か"ちょう (a spy, authorities, CabinetSecretary, captain, chief abbot, chief librarian, curator, director, enema, government office, Han Dynasty, low tide, one's best form, superintendent, superintendent priest). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lieh-hraie (half ebb tide, half-tide). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ebbay idetay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

maré-baixa (ebb, falling tide, low tide). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

Reflux (ebb, low tide, low water, retard of the tide, retreat). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Отлив. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oseka (reflux). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

marea menguante (ebb, falling tide). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ebb (ebb, falling tide, low tide). (various references)

   

Thai

  

กระแสน้ำลง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kötüye gitme (a change for the worse, deterioration), denizin çekilmesi, düşüş (collapse, comedown, cutback, decline, decrease, downgrade, drop, ebb, eclipse, fall, falling, purler, recession, recessional, reduction, scale down, sinking, spill, tumble), cezir hali. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: EBB TIDE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-e-i-t"

-1 letter: betide.

-2 letters: bidet, debit, ebbed, ebbet.

-3 letters: beet, bide, bite, debt, deet, diet, dite, edit, eide, teed, tide, tied.

-4 letters: bed, bee, bet, bib, bid, bit, deb, dee, dib, die, dit, ebb, ted, tee, tie.

-5 letters: be, bi, de, ed, et, id, it, ti.

 Words containing the letters "b-b-d-e-e-i-t"
 

+1 letter: gibbeted.

 

+2 letters: gibbetted.

 

+4 letters: abbreviated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EBB TIDE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 42 42      54 49 44 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01000010 01000010 00100000 01010100 01001001 01000100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#66 &#66 &#32 &#84 &#73 &#68 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0042 0042      0054 0049 0044 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

393636254433839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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