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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tidal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tidal current (=caused by the movement of the tides)
▪ Tidal currents make the seas around the islands very rough.
a tidal wave (=a very large ocean wave that flows over the land and destroys things)
▪ The winds and a tidal wave killed 45 people.
tidal wave
▪ a tidal wave of crime
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
current
▪ The environmental organisation detected radionuclides in zooplankton from the tidal currents which flush Mururoa's lagoon.
▪ This twice daily peristalsis creates tidal currents every six hours, pushing sea water first north, then south.
▪ It is very rarely still because of the strong tidal currents.
▪ With the reversal of tidal currents deltas can be built up at both ends of the strait.
flat
▪ From this apprenticeship to nature on tidal flats, I knew the strength of the environment in controlling cycles of marine life.
forces
▪ Ultimately there is a direct contest between internal gravity and the tidal forces.
▪ Any orbital eccentricity produced by the collapse must have been subsequently removed by tidal forces.
▪ As such a singularity is approached, some physical quantities diverge and all observers feel unbounded tidal forces.
▪ Another clue is tidal forces and the atmosphere.
▪ Its relationship both to the Gaussian curvature of two-dimensional surfaces and to tidal forces is discussed.
▪ Thus, tidal forces can lead to synchronous rotation.
▪ Moreover, as their separation increases, tidal forces will also cause m to slow down to maintain its synchronous rotation.
▪ There is therefore a fundamental link between the curvature of space-time and the existence of classical tidal forces.
power
▪ Biofuels and wind power are regarded as the most promising technologies, along with small scale hydro and tidal power.
▪ Also, tidal power generators must be designed to withstand severe wave action and the corrosive effects of seawater.
▪ In furtherance of that, may I urge him to bend his considerable energies towards the development of solar and tidal power?
▪ The Department of Energy study of wave power did likewise, as did the report of Government tidal power study group.
▪ There are also plans for a major tidal power system on the Severn Estuary and research is continuing into wave power systems.
▪ Their movements are therefore highly predictable, which gives tidal power a distinct advantage over many other renewable energy forms.
range
▪ However, deltas can be built in areas of larger tidal range provided that conditions 3 and 4 above are met.
▪ Thus the optimum conditions for coastal terrace development would seem to be areas with small tidal ranges.
wave
▪ She is suddenly engulfed by a tidal wave of self-loathing.
▪ Atmospheric explosions will at best generate rather feeble tidal waves.
▪ Just over half an hour later, the tidal wave swept up to the Over bridge on the outskirts of Gloucester.
▪ Were this asteroid to hit an ocean, it would create massive tidal waves that would roar far inland on all continents.
▪ On the other hand, thirteen percent hardly constituted the tidal wave of popular support that de Gaulle was looking for.
▪ Her almost flat nose tended to widen at the nostrils, flaring over a tidal wave of a mouth.
▪ The stunned production team were dealing with the tidal wave as best they could when an awful realization dawned.
▪ One might as well try to measure how many grains of sand will be moved by a tidal wave.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Helena, but no one was on the beach on the side facing the tidal wave when it arrived.
▪ Her almost flat nose tended to widen at the nostrils, flaring over a tidal wave of a mouth.
▪ In furtherance of that, may I urge him to bend his considerable energies towards the development of solar and tidal power?
▪ Studio heads and directors ignore the long list of artistic failures and succumb to the tidal pull.
▪ The tidal lagoon would provide alternative feeding grounds for birds displaced from the bay by the impounded lake.
▪ The stunned production team were dealing with the tidal wave as best they could when an awful realization dawned.
▪ There is a tidal wave of youth crime, and the Government have not begun to answer it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tidal

Tidal \Tid"al\, a. Of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares. --Longfellow. Tidal air (Physiol.), the air which passes in and out of the lungs in ordinary breathing. It varies from twenty to thirty cubic inches. Tidal basin, a dock that is filled at the rising of the tide. Tidal wave.

  1. See Tide wave, under Tide. Cf. 4th Bore.

  2. A vast, swift wave caused by an earthquake or some extraordinary combination of natural causes. It rises far above high-water mark and is often very destructive upon low-lying coasts.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tidal

1807, a hybrid formation from tide (n.) + Latin-derived suffix -al (1). A tidal wave (1819) properly is high water caused by movements of the tides; erroneous use for "tsunami, great ocean wave caused by an earthquake, etc." is recorded from 1868.

Wiktionary
tidal

a. relating to tides

WordNet
tidal

adj. of or relating to or caused by tides; "tidal wave"

Wikipedia
Tidal (disambiguation)

Tidal is the adjectival form of the word tide.

Tidal may also refer to:

  • Tidal (album), a 1996 album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple
  • Tidal (king), a king involved in the Battle of the Vale of Siddim
  • Tidal (livecoding), a live coding environment for music
  • Tidal (service), a music streaming service
  • Tidal, Manitoba, location of the Tidal railway station, Canada
Tidal (king)

Tidal (תִדְעָל), king of Goyim, is a monarch mentioned in Genesis 14:1.

The word goyim in Biblical Hebrew can be translated as "nations" or "peoples" or "ethnic groups" (in modern Hebrew it means "Gentiles") although Bible commentaries suggest that that in this verse it may instead be a reference to the region of Gutium. Tidal was one of the four kings that fought Abraham in the Battle of Siddim.

Tidal (album)

Tidal is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, released in the United States on July 23, 1996, by Work Records and Columbia Records ( Sony Music). According to Nielsen SoundScan, it was certified 3x platinum by the RIAA in December 1997.

Tidal produced six singles: " Shadowboxer", "Slow Like Honey", " Sleep to Dream", "The First Taste", " Criminal" and "Never Is a Promise". "Criminal", the album's most popular single, won a 1998 Grammy Award for " Best Female Rock Vocal Performance" and was named the single of 1997 in a poll of Rolling Stone readers. The music video for "The First Taste" never aired in the U.S.

The 2005 album I've Got My Own Hell to Raise by Bettye LaVette is titled after a lyric in "Sleep to Dream", and includes a cover of that song.

Tidal (service)

Tidal (stylized as TIDAL, also known as TIDALHiFi) is a subscription-based music streaming service that combines lossless audio and high definition music videos with curated editorial. The service has over 25 million tracks and 85,000 music videos. Tidal claims to pay the highest percentage of royalties to music artists and songwriters within the music streaming market. Tidal offers two digital music streaming services: Tidal Premium (lossy quality) and Tidal HiFi (lossless CD quality - FLAC-based 16-Bit/44.1 kHz). Tidal was launched in 2014 by Norwegian/ Swedish public company Aspiro. It has distribution agreements with all of the three major labels, in addition to many indies. In the first quarter of 2015, the parent company Aspiro was acquired by Project Panther Ltd., which was dissolved on August 2, 2016 which was owned by Shawn "Jay Z" Carter.

Following the acquisition of Aspiro by Jay Z in March 2015, a mass-marketing campaign was introduced to relaunch Tidal. Multiple music artists changed their social media profiles design blue, and posted the phrase "#TIDALforAll" on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. A press conference took place on March 30, 2015, introducing sixteen music artists to the stage, including Jay Z, who were all co-owners and stakeholders in Tidal. The service was promoted as being the first artist-owned streaming service. Each artist publicly signed a declaration, which opened with: "Throughout history, every movement began with a few individuals banding together with a shared vision – a vision to change the status quo."

The relaunch of Tidal with the new artist-owned model were mostly panned by publications and fellow musicians alike. Some praised the impressive high fidelity, lossless audio quality, and the higher subscription fees which would result in higher royalties to the artists and songwriters, whilst others felt the high subscription fees and exclusive Tidal content from the artists involved could result in an increase of music piracy. As of March 2015, the service itself claims to have over 580,000 paying users after being integrated with its sister service, WiMP, as well as 17,000 using the high fidelity service. Tidal currently operates in 31 countries. As of July 2016, Tidal now has 4.2 million paying subscribers.

Usage examples of "tidal".

The tidal regularity of cerebral chemical flows, the cyclonic violence latent in the adrenergic current of the autonomic nervous system, the delicate mysteries of the sweep of oxygen atoms from pneumonic membrane into the bloodstream.

For the last few hundred yards the amtracs had been crawling over the shallow tidal flats, churning the coral mud under their heavy treads and rising farther and farther out of the lagoon.

Half an hour later, when they reached the tidal limits of the river, some ten miles inland, Aragon slowed down so that they could watch the water more closely.

Everything was carried down to the beack, just below the tidal mark, and piled there to be loaded.

As before, a massive wave of clairvoyant impressions surged off the walls of that structure and rushed toward me with dismaying power and substance-occult substance but deadly nonetheless, as real to me as a murderous tidal wave.

Hence that heavily guarded headquarters at Cleaver Hall his base for Tidal Wave to submerge the island.

The Escapist was laid, lashed and manacled, in the paths of threshing machines, pagan juggernauts, tidal waves, and swarms of giant prehistoric bees revived by the evil science of the Iron Chain.

Currents of fae flowed through the city in half a dozen directions, each carefully labeled as to its tenor and tidal discrepancies.

Some distance behind Boba Fett, the larger cylinder encasing the elder Nullada slowly righted itself, like a planetary oceangoing vessel that had been swamped by a tidal wave.

Just a gentle brush of his lips on hers, but it woke a tidal surge of physical memories and, she suspected, was registered and mentally recorded in the minds of every single Silver Gulch inhabitant present.

Yama asked Tibor how he had escaped Prefect Corin, and the hierodule explained that he had still been struggling with the Prefect when the tidal wave had smashed into the floating garden, knocking it from the air and washing the two men into the river.

What violent emotion was this which was flooding her, sweeping away all landmarks, covering, as by one great inrolling tidal wave, all the familiar country of her heart?

Charles Ward - all these engulfed the doctor in a tidal wave of horror as he looked at that dry greenish powder outspread in the pedestalled leaden kylix on the floor.

Charles Ward--all these engulfed the doctor in a tidal wave of horror as he looked at that dry greenish powder outspread in the pedestalled leaden kylix on the floor.

It seemed to Linch that using Riot was like trying to harness a cyclone or ride a tidal wave, that Lady Wexford was dangerous to be near.