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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flood tide
noun
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▪ A bridge had been carried away in Castle Street, so likely there had been a flood tide at the time.
▪ Around them, other craft were also taking advantage of the flood tide to enter harbour.
▪ In North Yorkshire, there was only one rogue wave in the county's traditional flood tide of Conservative support.
▪ It was there the journey became even more hazardous and disjointed as they encountered a flood tide of humanity streaming towards them.
▪ The same flood tide that had brought such a good harvest of tiles heaped a mass of driftwood on to the Reach.
▪ Trent heard the scratching of branches against the bridge-deck as the wind drove Golden Girl inland on the flood tide.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flood tide

Flood \Flood\ (fl[u^]d), n. [OE. flod a flowing, stream, flood, AS. fl[=o]d; akin to D. vloed, OS. fl[=o]d, OHG. fluot, G. flut, Icel. fl[=o][eth], Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth. fl[=o]dus; from the root of E. flow. [root]80. See Flow, v. i.]

  1. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.

    A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood.
    --Milton.

  2. The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.

    There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
    --Shak.

  3. A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.

  4. Menstrual disharge; menses.
    --Harvey.

    Flood anchor (Naut.), the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.

    Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood.

    Flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.

    Flood mark, the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.

    Flood tide, the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide.

    The Flood, the deluge in the days of Noah.

Wiktionary
flood tide

n. 1 The period between low tide and the next high tide in which the sea is rising. 2 (lb en by extension) The highest point of something; a climax.

WordNet
flood tide

  1. n. 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" [syn: climax]

  2. the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) [syn: rising tide] [ant: ebbtide]

Wikipedia
Flood tide (disambiguation)

Flood tide is the rising tide of an ocean, the opposite of ebb tide

It may also refer to:

  • Flood Tide (novel), a novel by Clive Cussler
  • Flood Tide (film), a 1958 film
  • Flood Tide, an anthology of short fiction in the Merovingen Nights science fiction series
Flood Tide (novel)

Flood Tide is an adventure novel by Clive Cussler. This is the 14th book featuring the author’s primary protagonist, Dirk Pitt. He must rescue illegal immigrants from a Chinese tycoon and locate the bones of the Peking Man, the famous lost example of Homo erectus. This book also introduces Juan Cabrillo and some of the Corporation of the future Oregon Files series of books.

Flood Tide (film)

Flood Tide is a 1958 American film drama starring George Nader and Cornell Borchers.

Flood Tide (1934 film)

Flood Tide is a 1934 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring George Carney, Janice Adair and Minnie Rayner. It was made at Twickenham Studios as a quota quickie for release by RKO Pictures.

The sets were designed by James A. Carter, the regular Twickenham art director.

Usage examples of "flood tide".

There was a patch of turbulent white water on the north side of this majestic entrance strait, but beyond that it was clear sailing, and the flood tide helping to usher them in.

And so he wove a Working even while strangers shouldered into him from the right and the left, even while he had to pull Jenseny close against him to keep the flood tide of humanity from sweeping her away, even while he had to watch for Hesseth's coiffed head and make sure that it, too, was within safe distance.

Other torches bobbed, a flood tide of monks rushing to investigate the commotion.

She couldn't even look at him without getting wobbly kneed, and sometimes the way she felt about him welled up in her like a flood tide, pleasure and pain so sharply mingled that she would almost moan aloud.

No, that was not strictly true, for the French could stem the flood tide with a fair wind —.

No, that was not strictly true, for the French could stem the flood tide with a fair wind - with this chill easterly wind blowing.

No, that was not strictly true, for the French could stem the flood tide with a fair wind with this chill easterly wind blowing.