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flood tide

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flood tide also flood·tide (fldtd)
n.
1. The incoming or rising tide; the period between low water and the succeeding high water.
2. A climax or high point: a flood tide of fears.

flood tide
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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Noun1.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"
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
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
Translations
flood tide nalta marea, marea crescente
flood tide nalta marea, marea crescente


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It was flood tide when Daniel Quilp sat himself down in the ferry to cross to the opposite shore.
 
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