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Flood Tide

Definition: Flood Tide

Flood Tide

Noun

1. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding: "the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success".

2. The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide).

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


Specialty Definition: Flood Tide

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

The actual rising of the water from low water to the next high water. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonyms: Flood Tide

Synonyms: climax (n), rising tide (n). (additional references)
Antonym: ebbtide (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Flood 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.

Height

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

Increase

Noun: increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension; dilatation; (expansion); increment, accretion; accession; development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent; exaggeration exacerbation; spread; (dispersion); flood tide; gain, produce, product, profit.

Water

Deluge. (water in motion); high water, flood tide.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Flood Tide

English words defined with "flood tide": At seaclimaxEbb tide. (references)
Specialty definitions using "flood tide": reversing current. (references)

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Modern Usage: Flood Tide

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Flood Tide (1958)

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Commercial Usage: Flood Tide

DomainTitle

Books

  • Flood Tide (reference)

  • Flood Tide (Merovingen Nights, No 6) (reference)

  • Flood tide : opening the windows of heaven (reference)

  • Flood Tide [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  • Flood Tide of Empire: Spain and the Pacific Northwest, 1543-1819 (Yale Western Americana Series, 24) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: Flood Tide

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Flood tide. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Flood 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

flood tide

4
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Modern Translation: Flood Tide

Language Translations for "flood tide"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

baticë (afflux, flow, flux, high tide, influx, springtide, tide, water). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

прилив (afflux, flood, flow, flux, inflow, inset, onrush, rush, waft). (various references)

   

Czech

  

příliv (flood, high tide). (various references)

   

Danish

  

flod (flood, high tide, river), stigende tidevand (flood, rising tide). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vloedtij (rising tide), vloedstroom (flood, rising tide), vloed (flood, high tide, torrent, volley), rijzend tij (flood, rising tide). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vuoksi (because of, flood, for, for sake of, for the sake of, high tide, high water, in behalf of, in consequence of, on account of, owing to, through), nousuvesi (flood, rising tide), nouseva vesi (rising tide), korkeanveden aika (rising tide). (various references)

   

French

  

flux (flood, flow, flush, flux), flot (flood, fluid), marée montante (flood), marée haute (flood). (various references)

   

German

  

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

   

Greek 

  

πλημμυρίς (flood, rising tide), πλημμυρίδα (flood, rising tide). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

'אות (boom, boon, flow, flux, glory, high tide, majesty, pride, swell, swelling, tide). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

dagály (affected pathos, flood, flow, full sea, high tide, high water, Riptide, rise of the tide, tide). (various references)

   

Italian

  

flusso di marea,marea montante, flusso (flow, flux, rush), marea montante (flood, rising tide). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

高潮 (high tide, surge). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

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

   

Manx

  

roayrt (oncoming tide, spring tide), mooir lhieeney (flowing tide), lhieeney marrey, lhieeney (billow, blow up, charge, charge as battery, cover in, fill, fill in, fill out, flow, fuel, inset, load, make, make of tide, pad, rise, saturate, spasm, wax, wax as moon). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oodflay idetay

   

Portuguese

  

maré montante, maré enchente, maré cheia (high tide, high water), maré ascendente (inset), enchente (flood, flux, spate). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

прилив (afflux, boss, flow, flux, high tide, rush, tide, tongue). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

plima (high tide). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

flujo (discharge, flood, flow, flux, issue, river), pleamar (flood, high tide), marea creciente (flood, rising tide), ascenso de la marea. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

flod (flood, flow, flux, high tide, river, tide, torrent). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

met (flow, flux, high tide, high water, the incoming tide, tide). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Flood Tide

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-f-i-l-o-o-t"

-2 letters: deltoid, flooded, folioed, footled.

-3 letters: dildoe, doiled, doited, doodle, doolie, fiddle, flited, flooie, foetid, foiled, folded, foodie, fooled, footed, footie, footle, lifted, lofted, looted, oolite, toddle, toiled, toledo, tooled.

-4 letters: delft, dildo, diode, doled, doted, felid, fetid, field, filed, filet, flied, flite, flood, folio, idled, looed, looie, oiled, oldie, ootid, teloi, tided, tilde.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-f-i-l-o-o-t"
 

+3 letters: floodlighted.

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INDEX

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


  

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