Synonyms: tide
Definition: the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
Similar words: periodic event, recurrent event
Definition: an event that recurs at intervals
Synonyms: tide
Definition: something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea)
Usage: a rising tide of popular interest
Similar words: variation, fluctuation
Definition: an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
Synonyms: tide, lunar time period
Definition: there are usually two high and two low tides each day
Similar words: time period, period, period of time
Definition: an amount of time
Usage: a time period of 30 years; hastened the period of time of his recovery; Picasso's blue period
Synonyms: tide
Definition: be carried with the tide
Similar words: drift, float, blow, be adrift
Definition: be in motion due to some air or water current
Usage: The leaves were blowing in the wind; the boat drifted on the lake; The sailboat was adrift on the open sea; the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore
Synonyms: tide
Definition: cause to float with the tide
Similar words: float
Definition: set afloat
Usage: He floated the logs down the river; The boy floated his toy boat on the pond
Definition: rise or move forward
Usage: surging waves
Similar words: flow, feed, course, run
Definition: move along, of liquids
Usage: Water flowed into the cave; the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi