Definition of Flood Tide in English :

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Flood Tide meaning in English

Meaning of Flood Tide in English

Pronunciation of Flood Tide in English

Flood Tide pronunciation in English

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Flood Tide

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Noun

1. climax, flood tide

the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding

Example Sentences:
'the climax of the artist's career'
'in the flood tide of his success'

2. flood, flood tide, rising tide

the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)

Example Sentences:
'a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Flood Tide

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noun
nautical
the tide when it has risen from low to high water

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Flood Tide

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the incoming or rising tide
see also ebb tide

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Flood Tide

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n.
1. The incoming or rising tide, occurring between the time when the tide is lowest and the time when the following tide is highest.
2.
a. A large or increasing amount: "Is the flood tide of scandals evidence of a flood tide of malfeasance?" (Eduardo Porter).
b. The peak or climax: "when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide" (Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan).

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