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Definition: EBB TIDE |
EBB TIDE1. The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide. |
| Domain | Definitions |
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) |
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| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: EBB TIDE |
| English words defined with "EBB TIDE": Current wheel ♦ Ebb and flow ♦ Falling tide, flood tide ♦ Half tide ♦ low tide, low water ♦ Tide wheel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "EBB TIDE": agitation dredging ♦ reversing current. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ebb Tide (1937) | |
Song Titles | Ebb Tide (performing artist: The Righteous Brothers) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ebb tide | 49 |
ebb tide boat | 9 |
nino the ebb tide | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 42 42      54 49 44 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01000010 01000010 00100000 01010100 01001001 01000100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E B B   T I D E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0042 0042      0054 0049 0044 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)393636254433839 |
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