flood tide

flood tide

(flŭd′tīd′)

n.

1. The incoming or rising tide, occurring between the time when the tide is lowest and the time when the following tide is highest.

2.

a. A large or increasing amount: "Is the flood tide of scandals evidence of a flood tide of malfeasance?" (Eduardo Porter).

b. The peak or climax: "when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide" (Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan).

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flood′ tide`

n.

the inflow of the tide; rising tide.

[1710–20]

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flood tide

(flŭd)

The period between low tide and high tide, during which water flows toward the shore. Compare ebb tide. See more at tide.

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	flood tide - 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" climax juncture, occasion - an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions"
	2.	flood tide - the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare rising tide, flood tide - the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon ebbtide - the tide while water is flowing out

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Translations

flood tide

n → alta marea, marea crescente

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