flood tide (redirected from flood tides)

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.

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flood tide

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

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

Translations

flood tide n → pleamar f

flood tide n → marée montante

flood tide flood n → Flut f

flood tide n → alta marea, marea crescente