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Definition: Flood Tide |
Flood TideNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
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 TideSynonyms: climax (n), rising tide (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: ebbtide (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Flood Tide |
| English words defined with "flood tide": At sea ♦ climax ♦ Ebb tide. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flood tide": reversing current. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Flood Tide (1958) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Flood tide. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flood tide | 4 |
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| 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 maré montante, maré enchente, maré cheia (high tide, high water), maré ascendente (inset), enchente (flood, flux, spate). (various references) прилив (afflux, boss, flow, flux, high tide, rush, tide, tongue). (various references) plima (high tide). (various references) flujo (discharge, flood, flow, flux, issue, river), pleamar (flood, high tide), marea creciente (flood, rising tide), ascenso de la marea. (various references) flod (flood, flow, flux, high tide, river, tide, torrent). (various references) met (flow, flux, high tide, high water, the incoming tide, tide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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