The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ebb tide \Ebb" tide`\ The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide.
Wiktionary
n. The period between high tide and the next low tide in which the sea is recede.
Wikipedia
"Ebb Tide" is a popular song, written in 1953 by the lyricist Carl Sigman and composer Robert Maxwell. An instrumental version by organist Kenneth W. Griffin was played in the fifth season premiere of the TV drama Mad Men.
The song's build up is to illustrate the ocean waves coming in and out to and from the shores, due to the ebb tides.
The first three notes are identical to the first three notes of the Erroll Garner song " Misty" (1954).
This song is not to be confused with the title song from the movie Ebb Tide (1937), which is a composition by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger.
"Ebb Tide" is the first episode of the second season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon, from a story by Simon and Ed Burns, and was directed by Ed Bianchi. It originally aired on June 1, 2003.
Ebb tide means the period between high tide and low tide during which water flows away from the shore. The receding or outgoing tide. The period between high water and the succeeding low water.
The following all drew their name from the above meaning:
- Ebb Tide (1922 film)
- Ebb Tide (1932 film)
- Ebb Tide (1937 film)
- "Ebb Tide" (song), a 1953 song written by Carl Sigman and Robert Maxwell
- "Ebb Tide" (The Wire)
- The Ebb-Tide, a novel
- Ebb Tide (ship)
- Nino and the Ebb Tides, a doo-wop group from New York, also known as The Ebb Tides.
Ebb Tide is a 1932 British drama film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Chili Bouchier, Joan Barry, George Barraud, and Merle Oberon.
Ebb Tide is a 1937 American Technicolor drama film directed by James P. Hogan and starring Oskar Homolka, Frances Farmer and Ray Milland. Much of the film is set in the South Seas and is based on the novel The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.
A remake of the 1922 Paramount silent film Ebb Tide .
Later filmed in 1947 as Adventure Island produced by William H. Pine.
Ebb Tide ( 1922) is an American silent adventure film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by George Melford, and based on the novel The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson and his step-son Lloyd Osbourne. The story had been filmed before in 1915 by the Selig Polyscope Company.
The film would be filmed again in 1937 and in 1947 as Adventure Island. Melford's production is now considered a lost film.
Ebb Tide was an American vessel. She was the first vessel designed and built especially for supply materials and stores to offshore drilling platforms.
In 1955 Alden J. “Doc” Laborde, not satisfied with performance of ex-navy amphibious assault barges, used to do this job, worked out new concept of vessel, propelled by two powerful engines with bridge very forward and long open deck on aft (Ship was 119 feet long with open deck length 90 feet).
Ebb Tide went into service in 1956 and became the first boat of Tidewater Company, which later grown to world-wide ship-owner.
Vessels designed with those principles are most popular among platform supply vessels till today.
Usage examples of "ebb tide".
New Home for Ebb Tide, False Dawn in Aztlan and a Chain of Bull Maggots on the Neck of the Fat Spic from Riverbank.
The flies, airship, railroad, docks, and walks, all of Lightfoot seemed to be receding from his touch, as if caught up by an all-encompassing ebb tide.
Comfortable time for them to up anchor and get under weigh, and make the passage of the Goulet with a fair wind and ebb tide.
It would also turn out to be an act of such monumental perversity not even that gentle presence of Ebb Tide could change my sudden and savage decision that the Treacherous bastard should have his nuts ripped off with a plastic fork -- and then fed like big meat grapes to my peacocks.
With what still remained of the ebb tide behind them it would only be a few seconds before they ought to sight Atropos.