Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tide

3 senses of tide

Sense 1
tide -- (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)
       => periodic event, recurrent event -- (an event that recurs at intervals)

Sense 2
tide -- (something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea); "a rising tide of popular interest")
       => variation, fluctuation -- (an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change)

Sense 3
tide, lunar time period -- (there are usually two high and two low tides each day)
       => time period, period of time, period -- (an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period")

Antonyms of verb tide

1 of 3 senses of tide

Sense 1
tide, surge -- (rise or move forward; "surging waves")
       Antonym of ebb (Sense 1)
      => ebb, ebb away, ebb down, ebb out, ebb off -- (flow back or recede; "the tides ebbed at noon")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb tide

3 senses of tide

Sense 1
tide, surge -- (rise or move forward; "surging waves")
       => run, flow, feed, course -- (move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi")

Sense 2
tide -- (cause to float with the tide)
       => float -- (set afloat; "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond")
          Phrasal Verb-> tide over#1

Sense 3
tide -- (be carried with the tide)
       => float, drift, be adrift, blow -- (be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore")