high tide
/'hai'taid/
Definition
Noun 1. The tide when the water is highest: The periodic rise of sea level to its maximum elevation, occurring approximately twice a day due to the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. 2. (Figurative) A peak or climax: The point of greatest intensity, abundance, or success in a situation.
Usage
- Literal (Oceanography): Refers to the specific time or state when the tidal water reaches its highest level on the shore.
- Figurative: Used to describe the peak or most active period of any cyclical or wave-like phenomenon.
Examples
- Literal:
- We planned our beach walk for low tide, avoiding the high tide.
- The pier is completely submerged during high tide.
- Figurative:
- The company's profits reached their high tide in the late 1990s.
- During the high tide of the festival, the streets were packed with people.
Advanced Usage
- "The high tide of (something)": Used to specify the peak period of a particular trend, movement, or feeling.
- The novel was written at the high tide of the Romantic movement.
Variants and Related Words
- High water (noun): A synonym for high tide, often used in technical or formal contexts.
- The flood defenses are designed to withstand high water.
- Spring tide (noun): A tide just after a new or full moon, when there is the greatest difference between high and low water. (A specific type of especially high tide).
- Neap tide (noun): A tide just after the first or third quarters of the moon when there is the least difference between high and low water. (The opposite of a spring tide).
Synonyms
- Flood tide: The incoming tide, leading to high tide.
- Peak: (Figurative) The highest point.
- Culmination: (Figurative) The climax or point of greatest achievement.
Antonyms
- Low tide (noun): The tide when the water is lowest.
- Ebb tide (noun): The period when the tide is receding from high to low tide.
- Nadir: (Figurative) The lowest point.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- To turn the tide: To reverse the trend or course of events.
- The new evidence turned the tide in the court case.
- The tide is high: A phrase indicating that a situation has reached a peak, often of difficulty or opportunity.
- With public opinion against him, the political tide is high.
Noun
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the tide when the water is highest
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