Synonyms: rising tide, flood, flood tide
Definition: the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
Usage: a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune -Shakespeare
Similar words: tide
Definition: the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
Synonyms: flood tide, climax
Definition: the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Usage: the climax of the artist's career; in the flood tide of his success
Similar words: occasion, juncture
Definition: an event that occurs at a critical time
Usage: at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave; it was needed only on special occasions