Low Tide

Definition: Low Tide

Low Tide

Noun

1. The lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide.

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

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Slang in 1811

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

Synonym: Low Tide

Lowness

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

Crosswords: Low Tide

Low Tide (1925)

Landing at Low Tide (1896)

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

Books

• Dead Low Tide (reference)

• Low Tide (reference)

• Low Tide in the Desert: Nevada Stories (Western Literature Series) (reference)

• Low, Low Tide and Collected Stories (reference)

• Murder at Low Tide (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• High Tide and Low Tide (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Tide gauge at low tide Photo #1 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Low tide - rock shows where vessel struck and then sank Vessel captain claimed to be in mid-channel far from any hazards Paint, metal fragments, and rivets proved differently. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Pigeon Point Lighthouse as seen from the south at low tide on a misty day. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Sharp hard coral shoreline at low tide. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The PATHFINDER at low tide at a Dutch Harbor pier. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Gathering commercial oysters is done chiefly by dredging or tonging. However, in certain areas much harvesting was done by oystermen who gather them by hand at low tide. Credit: Fisheries.

Oyster dredge stranded at low tide. Credit: Fisheries.

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.

A close-up view of the tide gate from the Delaware River side shows the flat valves near low tide. The water is flowing out of Army Creek, the tide gates are open and debris that plugs the openings can be clearly seen. The restoration work will target modification of the flood gates to allow better passage for anadromous species. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. Pelicans rest on a shell deposit at low tide near Marsh Landing dock on the southwest side of Sapelo Island. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

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

Expression using "low tide": at low tide. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏نذالة (villainy), ‏تدني جزرالبحر, ‏جزر متدن, ‏إنحطاط (baseness, declination, degeneration, degradation, devolution, ebb, looseness, prostration, recession, retrogression), ‏دناءة (abjection, littleness, meanness, servility, sordidness). (various references)

Czech

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

Danish

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

Dutch

eb (ebb). (various references)

Esperanto

refluo, malfluso, malfluo (ebb). (various references)

Faeroese

fjøra (beach). (various references)

Finnish

luode (ebb, low water, north-west). (various references)

French

marée basse (low water). (various references)

Frisian

ebbe. (various references)

German

Ebbe (ebb, ebb tide, tide). (various references)

Greek 

ρηχία (low water), άμπωτις (ebb, ebb tide, fall of the water, falling tide, low water), άμπωτη (ebb, ebb tide 1, low water, neap tide, refluence, reflux), αναπόδιση. (various references)

Hebrew 

שפל �"מים (ebb tide), שפל (base, degeneration, ebb, humble, indolent, lousy, low, low down, lowliness, mean, mean-spirited, meek, minimum, miscreant, ornery, recession, scabby, scamp, shabby, sordid, vile). (various references)

Hungarian

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

Italian

bassa marea (low water). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

落潮 (decline), 潮干 , 干潮 (ebb tide), 低潮 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しおひ, ひきしお (ebb tide), か�"ちょう (a spy, authorities, CabinetSecretary, captain, chief abbot, chief librarian, curator, director, ebb tide, enema, government office, Han Dynasty, one's best form, superintendent, superintendent priest), らくちょう (decline, missing pages), ていちょう (captain, courteous, dullness, hospitable, inactive, low tone, polite, slack, slow, sluggish, undertone, weakness). (various references)

Manx

mooir-hraie (ebb, low water). (various references)

Pig Latin

owlay idetay

Portuguese

baixa-mar (reflux). (various references)

Romanian

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

Russian 

отлив (ebb, ebb tide, ebb-tide, low water, refluence, reflux), малая вода (low water). (various references)

Spanish

bajamar (low water), reflujo (ebb, reflux), marea baja (low water). (various references)

Sranan

fara watra. (various references)

Swedish

lågvatten (low water), ebb (ebb, Ebb tide). (various references)

Turkish

suların çekilmesi, deniz alçalması, cezir (ebb, reflux), alçalmış deniz. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: toiled, wilted.

-2 letters: dowel, dowie, dwelt, lowed, oiled, oldie, owlet, teloi, tilde, tiled, toile, toled, towed, towel, towie, wield, wiled, wited.

-3 letters: deil, deli, delt, diel, diet, diol, dite, doit, dole, dolt, dote, edit, idle, idol, lewd, lido, lied, lite, lode, loti, lowe, lwei, owed, tide, tied, tile, toed, toil, told, tole, weld.

+1 letter: outwiled.

+2 letters: dishtowel, outwilled.

+3 letters: dishtowels, outwhirled, withholder, worldliest.

+4 letters: thistledown, trickledown, withholders.

+5 letters: multitowered, overwithheld, overwithhold, thistledowns, towardliness.