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Tidemark

Tidemark \Tide"mark\, n.

  1. a mark on a shore line indicating the normal level of the water at high tide, caused by the action of the flowing water; sometimes also used for the mark left at the point of the normal low tide; -- called also high water mark.

  2. [fig.] the maximum level which some activity has reached and from which it has declined; -- called also high water mark.

Wiktionary
tidemark

n. 1 a line (of seaweed or differently coloured sand etc) on the shore showing the level of high or low tide 2 (context by extension English) any mark showing the limit of some past activity 3 (context humorous English) a line of scum left on a bath tub when the water is drained away

WordNet
tidemark

n. indicator consisting of a line at the high-water or low-water limits of the tides

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Tidemark

Tidemark is a private enterprise performance management firm founded in 2010 that provides cloud-based analytics applications built for a mobile device enabled platform. Tidemark was known as Proferi when it was in stealth mode and is located in Redwood City, California. In Sept. 2013, Tidemark won the Big Data Startup Challenge and earned a spot in the Big Data 50.

Usage examples of "tidemark".

He was like a beachcomber searching the tidemark for something familiar.

She was also, it seemed, not a big believer in rinsing out the bath after use, as demonstrated by a small cluster of curly black hairs clinging to the grimy tidemark that ringed the bath.

It had a thatched roof, reeds rotting and congealing, caked in tidemark ripples of blue-green fungal growths.

The long-flung light of a westering sun began to lift its golden tidemark higher on the eastern walls of the town.

In those first moments, as warring elements collided, boundaries formed, dimensions were made and disappeared without ever quite dissolving, like the salt tidemarks on those rocks.

Her hair hung lank, her lips looked bruised, and there were tidemarks of dirt around her neck.

One of the most amazing sights in this changed city was to see George's name scrawled across the tidemarks of graffiti.

In those first moments, as warring elements collided, boundaries had formed, dimensions had been made and disappeared without ever quite dissolving, like the salt tidemarks on those rocks…” As they walked, the tariqua waved her cane.

Shirra had a table carried between tidemarks, and publicly prayed against the rover at the pitch of his voice and his broad lowland dialect.