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Word: tide
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A stream, current or flood.
- chronology (''obsolete except in liturgy'') Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
- mining The period of twelve hours.
- obsolete Violent Francis Bacon
- Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
- Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
- The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
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Verb:
- nautical To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
- obsolete To happen, occur.
- intransitive To pour a tide or flood.
- transitive To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
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