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SPRING TIDE

Definition: SPRING TIDE

SPRING TIDE

1. The tide which happens at, or soon after, the new and the full moon, and which rises higher than common tides. See Tide .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: SPRING TIDE

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

Tide of increased range which occurs about every two weeks when the moon is new or full(sysygy). Source: European Union. (references)

Food & Agriculture

A tide of maximum range. It is the result of the additive action of the moon and sun. It takes place twice in a lunar month, when the moon is in conjunction or opposition, that is, at new and full moon. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Spring Tide The tide that springs or leaps or swells up. These full tides occur at the new and full moon, when the attraction of both sun and moon act in a direct line. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: SPRING TIDE

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

Completeness

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

Greatness

Great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap; (assemblage); stock; (store); peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance; (sufficiency).

Height

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

Lowness

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

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: SPRING TIDE

English words defined with "SPRING TIDE": Neaped. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SPRING TIDE

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Image Slideshow: SPRING TIDE

Illustrations:
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Expression: SPRING TIDE

Expression using "SPRING TIDE": equinoctial spring tide. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SPRING 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

spring tide

16

neap spring tide

6

china mikasa spring tide

5

neap spring tide tide

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

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Modern Translation: SPRING TIDE

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

Arabic 

  

‏جزر (ebb, insularity). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

пролетен сезон (springtime). (various references)

   

Danish

  

springtidevande, springflod (bore, eagre, sysygy tide). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

springvloed, springtij (high water spring tide, sysygy tide), giertij (sysygy tide). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tulvavuoksi (bore, sysygy tide), korkea vuoksi (sysygy tide). (various references)

   

French

  

marée de vive eau. (various references)

   

German

  

Springflut (tsunami). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συζυγική παλίρροια (sysygy tide), πλημμυρίδα και άμπωτη, παλίρροια συζυγιών (sysygy tide), παλíρροια συζυγιών, παλíρροια ζώντων υδάτων, εαρινή παλίρροια. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szökõár (tidal wave). (various references)

   

Italian

  

marea sizigiale (sysygy tide), marea equinoziale, marea di sizigie, grande marea (sysygy tide). (various references)

   

Manx

  

roayrt (flood tide, oncoming tide), raip-roayrt. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ingspray idetay

   

Portuguese

  

maré grande, maré de sizigias, maré de sizigia:maré viva (sysygy tide), maré de sizígia, maré de lua, maré de águas vivas (sysygy tide), maré de guas vivas. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

maree puternicã, apele primãverii. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сизигийный прилив. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

marea viva (sysygy tide). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

springflod. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), denizin aşırı kabarması, coşku (ebullition, ecstasy, effervescence, elation, enthusiasm, excitement, exuberance, exuberancy, furor, furore, glow, gush, rave, rhapsody, temperament, yeast), şiddetli met hareketi. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

весняна пора, весняна повінь, піднесення (ascension, climb, effervescence, effervescency, exaltation, lift, lifting, pathos, presentation, sublimation, upturn, wave). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

con nước lên. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SPRING TIDE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: springtide.

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-i-n-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: despiting, presiding, priesting, respiting.

-2 letters: desiring, dingiest, disinter, gripiest, igniters, inditers, inspired, intrepid, nitrides, pristine, residing, resiting, ridgiest, ringside, riptides, speiring, spiering, spirited, spirting, springed, sprinted, stingier, striding, stringed, striping, tiderips.

-3 letters: dieting, dingers, dingier, dingies, dipnets, dirties, ditsier, editing, engirds, gipsied, ignited, igniter, ignites, inditer, indites, insider, inspire, nidgets, nitride, nitrids, peising.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-i-n-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: springtides.

 

+2 letters: distempering, predestining, predigesting, predigestion, redepositing.

 

+3 letters: disrespecting, pharyngitides, predigestions.

 

+4 letters: fieldstripping, predesignating, predestinating, superintending, underpaintings.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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