High Tide

Definition: High Tide

High Tide

Noun

1. The tide when the water is highest.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Dream Interpretation

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

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Synonyms: High Tide

Completeness

Impletion; saturation, saturity; high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide; fill, load, bumper, bellyful; brimmer; sufficiency.

Height

High water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide.

Prosperity

Luck; good luck, run of luck; sunshine; fair weather, fair wind; palmy days, bright days, halcyon days; piping times, tide, flood, high tide.

River

Body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre; fresh, freshet; indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation.

Crosswords: High Tide

So if I capsize on your thighs high tide, B5 you sunk my battleship (The Bad Touch; performing artist: Bloodhound Gang)

The full moon is looking for friends at high tide (I Am Mine; performing artist: Pearl Jam)

High Tide (1947)

Won at High Tide (1912)

High Tide (1994)

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Books

• 1927: High Tide of the 1920s (reference)

• High Tide (reference)

• High Tide in Hawaii (Magic Tree House, 28) (reference)

• Mean High Tide (reference)

• Textured Soft Shapes: High Tide (reference)

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Music

• High Tide and Low Tide (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Tide gauge at high tide Photo #2 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The shoreline at high tide. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A fall high tide along a Patuxent River beach. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A mountain of oysters. Where spawning conditions are good, oysters in their natural state will attach themselves, one generation atop another, until great ridges of them exist up to high tide. However, such oysters are poor quality and of little commercial value. By spreading them out and giving them room to grow, the quality can be improved. F&W A-6151. Credit: Fisheries.

The restoration planting site at high tide. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Waiting for the tide to go out, a fyke net collection. The nets are deployed at high tide and allowed to fish during the tidal cycle, they are retrieved at low tide. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

After planting, smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora at high tide. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Cordgrass plant nearly covered at high tide. Note the periwinkle snail, Littorina irrorata, that has climbed high on the grass blade and avoided being covered by the tide. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Man-made canal through marshland at high tide in Providence Point marsh. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A view along the Moonakis River. Note the apparent level of high tide on the marsh grass. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

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Economic History

Costa Rica

Investment in beachfront property can be problematic since almost all beachfront is public property for a distance of 200 meters from the high tide mark. (references)

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Expression using "high tide": at the high tide. Additional references.

Albanian

pikë kulmore (culmination, meridian), kulm i baticës (high water), baticë (afflux, flood tide, flow, flux, influx, springtide, tide, water). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فيضان (alluvion, deluge, flood, flow, flux, high, overflow, rise, rising, spate, stream), ‏قمة المد, ‏ذروة المد البحر, ‏أوج المد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

кулминация (culmination), връхна точка на прилива, в най-високата точка на прилив, апогей (acme, apogee, crest, culmination, height, heyday, meridian, pinnacle, pride, summit, zenith). (various references)

Chinese 

高潮 (high water, upsurge), 漲潮 (rising tide). (various references)

Czech

vrchol přílivu, příliv (flood, flood tide). (various references)

Danish

flod (flood, river). (various references)

Dutch

vloed (flood, torrent, volley). (various references)

Esperanto

fluso (flood), alfluo. (various references)

Faeroese

flóð (flood). (various references)

Finnish

vuoksi (because of, flood, for, for sake of, for the sake of, high water, in behalf of, in consequence of, on account of, owing to, through). (various references)

French

marée haute (high water). (various references)

Frisian

floed (flood). (various references)

German

flut (deluge, flood, flood tide, flow, flux, gush, incoming tide, spate, storm, tidal, torrent, volley), hochwasser (flood, high water, spate). (various references)

Greek 

μέγιστο ύψος πλημμυρίδας (high water), πλημμυρíς (high water), πλήμμη (high water). (various references)

Hebrew 

�'אות �"ים, �'אות (boom, boon, flood tide, flow, flux, glory, majesty, pride, swell, swelling, tide). (various references)

Hungarian

tetőfok (climax, heyday, peak, pride, prime), kulminálás (climaxing). (various references)

Italian

alta marea (flood, high, high water, tidal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

高潮 (flood tide, surge), 満潮 (full tide, high water), 出潮 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たかしお (flood tide, surge), ま�"ちょう (full tide, high water), でしお, �"うちょう (bird of passage, blush, favourable, flood tide, flush, hard tone, headmaster, high spirits, in good shape, migratory bird, nightingale, offices of a public or governmental organization, principal, promising, satisfactory, surge). (various references)

Manx

roayrt lhieent, roayrt ec y vullagh, mullagh ny marrey, lane marrey (high water). (various references)

Norwegian

strøm (current, flood, flow, flush). (various references)

Pig Latin

ighhay idetay

Portuguese

premear, preia-mar (high water), praia-mar (high water), mar� alta, maré cheia (flood tide), maré alta (high water), fluxo (flood, flow, flux, outflow, stream). (various references)

Russian 

прилив (afflux, boss, flood tide, flow, flux, rush, tide, tongue), полная вода. (various references)

Scottish

fidean (a green islet or spit uncovered at high tide). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

plima (flood tide). (various references)

Spanish

pleamar (flood, flood tide), plemear, marea alta (high water). (various references)

Sranan

springi (flood), frudu (flood). (various references)

Swedish

högvatten (flood). (various references)

Turkish

zirve (acme, apex, apogee, cap, climax, crown, culmination, cusp, head, height, high, meridian, payoff, peak, Pike, pink, pinnacle, summit, top, vertex, zenith), suların yükselmesi, met (flood tide, flow, flux, high water, the incoming tide, tide), en yüksek nokta (skies, tiptop), doruk (acme, apex, apical, apogee, climax, crest, culmination, cusp, height, heyday, meridian, peak, pinnacle, sum, summit, top, vertex, zenith), denizin en yüksek olduğu durum. (various references)

Vietnamese 

điểm cao nhất (apogee, culmination, top-notch). (various references)

Misspellings

"High Tide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hightide. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: highted, thighed.

-2 letters: eighth, height.

-3 letters: dight, digit, eight, heigh, hight, teiid, thigh.

-4 letters: diet, dite, edit, gied, heth, hide, hied, high, tide, tied.

-5 letters: die, dig, dit, edh, eth, ged, get, ghi, gid, gie, git, heh, het, hid, hie, hit, ted, teg, the, tie.

+2 letters: hightailed.

+3 letters: highlighted.

+4 letters: diphthongize.

+5 letters: diphthongized, diphthongizes.