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FALLING TIDE

Definition: FALLING TIDE

FALLING TIDE

1. The ebb tide.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: FALLING 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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Modern Translations: FALLING TIDE

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

Danish

  

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

   

Dutch

  

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

   

Finnish

  

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

   

French

  

reflux, perdant, marée descendante, jusant, baissée. (various references)

   

German

  

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

   

Greek 

  

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

   

Italian

  

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

   

Pig Latin

  

allingfay idetay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

vazante (ebb, ebb tide, recession), maré-baixa (ebb, ebb tide, low tide), maré descendente (ebb, ebb tide), maré de vazante (ebb, ebb tide). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reflujo (backflow, ebb, ebb tide, low tide, recession, reflux), marea saliente (ebb, ebb tide), marea menguante (ebb, ebb tide), marea descendente (ebb, ebb tide), marea bajante (ebb, ebb tide). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tidvattnets fallande fas (ebb, ebb tide), ebb (ebb, Ebb tide, low tide), den fallande fasens lägsta nivå (ebb, ebb tide). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FALLING TIDE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-g-i-i-l-l-n-t"

-2 letters: deflating, detailing, fellating, filleting, flatlined.

-3 letters: antilife, defiling, delating, dialling, dilating, diligent, fielding, fileting, filiated, finagled, finialed, flailing, flatline, flatling, gliadine, ideating, inflated, tefillin.

-4 letters: aligned, atingle, dealing, defiant, dialing, dieting, digital, editing, elating, eliding, failing, fainted, falling, fatling, felling, felting, filiate, filling, finagle, flailed, flanged, flinted, fliting, gallein, gallied, gelatin, gellant, genital, gillied, gillnet, gliadin, glinted, ignited, inedita, infidel, infield, inflate, intagli, ladling, leading, leafing, lifting, ligated, lignite, lilting, tailing, tallied, tangled, telling, tillage, tilling, tingled.

-5 letters: afield, aiding, aiglet, ailing, alined, allied, angled, dangle, dating, defang, denial, dental, dentil, detail, detain, dieing, dilate, dingle, eating, engild, entail, fadein, fading, failed, faille, fallen, fanged, fating, fetial, feting, fidget, filial, filing, filled, fillet, finale, finial, finite, flange, flited, gained, gaited, galled, gallet, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, gifted, gilled, gillie, idling, ignite, illite, indite, infall, ingate, inlaid, lading, lagend, lentil, lienal, lifted, ligand, ligate, lilied, lilted, linage, lineal, lintel, nailed, nidget, nielli, nilgai, nilled, tailed, taille, tanged, tangle, telial, tenail, tiding, tieing, tiling, tilled, tineal, tineid, tinged, tingle.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-g-i-i-l-l-n-t"
 

+3 letters: defibrillating.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FALLING TIDE


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

46 41 4C 4C 49 4E 47      54 49 44 45

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

    

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

01000110 01000001 01001100 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010100 01001001 01000100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#65 &#76 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#84 &#73 &#68 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0041 004C 004C 0049 004E 0047      0054 0049 0044 0045

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

40354646434841254433839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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