What's the difference between tide and time?

Tide


Definition:

  • (prep.) Time; period; season.
  • (prep.) The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. Hence, when the sun and moon are in conjunction or opposition, as at new moon and full moon, their action is such as to produce a greater than the usual tide, called the spring tide, as represented in the cut. When the moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the neap tide.
  • (prep.) A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood.
  • (prep.) Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
  • (prep.) Violent confluence.
  • (prep.) The period of twelve hours.
  • (v. t.) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
  • (n.) To betide; to happen.
  • (n.) To pour a tide or flood.
  • (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "So we do what we can to keep the red tide from drowning us.
  • (2) For the moment, the priority is managing this endless human tide.
  • (3) Government ministers and officials are distressed that the home secretary's resignation has failed to stem the tide of fresh allegation and counter allegation between the protaganists and a number of potentially damaging questions still hang over the visa affair.
  • (4) First, the argument that balanced budgets and economic growth inevitably lead to a fairer society because “all boats rise on a rising tide”.
  • (5) The home side dominated the opening quarter of an hour as Argentina struggled to find their feet but the tide turned when Di Maria curled a right-footed shot past Claudio Bravo for the equaliser 10 minutes later.
  • (6) Updated at 12.27pm GMT 11.46am GMT There's debate at Chesil Beach over when exactly high tide is, writes Steven Morris.
  • (7) It soon became a standard text for aspiring Young Conservatives and Bow Groupers in the days before the Thatcherite tide had engulfed even those institutions.
  • (8) In the debate, Sturgeon clearly signalled she was open to working with Ed Miliband, at one point saying: “I agree with Ed.” She challenged the Labour leader to join her in seeking an end austerity and said the SNP was his “ally” in trying to roll back a tide of privatisation in the NHS.
  • (9) Governments must defeat a rising tide of protectionism to prevent a further slowdown in global growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said.
  • (10) Tony Abbott has tried to stem the tide of discontent within his own party ranks, defending his decision to award a knighthood to Prince Philip and saying the government is “strong and effective” under his leadership.
  • (11) Apparently the sea wall is a favourite base for extravagant jumps into the water, but not at low tide.
  • (12) While those "close relation[s]" are not supposed to be passed on for watchlisting absent other "derogatory information", their data may be retained within TIDE for unspecified "analytic purposes".
  • (13) Tamerlan Tsarnaev was entered into a central database of potential terrorists, the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (Tide), that is maintained by the National Counterterrorism Center.
  • (14) Donald Trump is fairly progressive about gay people but when you look at Mike Pence and the Republican party, the religious undertone threatens to roll back the tide of progress.
  • (15) The lack of obvious motive baffled commentators who said the British director of Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Beverly Hills Cop II appeared to have it all: success, wealth, respect, a wife and two young children.
  • (16) We have not turned the tide on the ease with which money can be shifted out of developing countries.” There are lots of ways to get money out of a country undetected but the easiest is through trade misinvoicing, which is the overpricing of imports and the underpricing of exports – and accounts for 77% of all illicit financial flows.
  • (17) We are up against a very strong king tide so some of the floodwater will take time to recede.” New Zealand prime minister Bill English addressed the situation on social media on Saturday.
  • (18) Outbreaks of airborne respiratory irritation in populations exposed to red tides may be the most common public health problem associated with red tides.
  • (19) While it is still ridiculous to suggest that Boko Haram will be defeated in six weeks, and still far too early to conclude that the tide has turned against the Islamist group, it is reasonable to think that the international intervention may free up some Nigerian military resources in time for the rescheduled election; and, more importantly, keep Boko Haram occupied while voting takes place.
  • (20) But hard lobbying from the South African government and its regional partners turned the tide for Dlamini-Zuma.

Time


Definition:

  • (n.) Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
  • (n.) A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be.
  • (n.) The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times.
  • (n.) The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.
  • (n.) A proper time; a season; an opportunity.
  • (n.) Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.
  • (n.) Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen.
  • (n.) The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.
  • (n.) Tense.
  • (n.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.
  • (v. t.) To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.
  • (v. t.) To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
  • (v. t.) To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.
  • (v. t.) To measure, as in music or harmony.
  • (v. i.) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
  • (v. i.) To pass time; to delay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
  • (2) Neuromedin B (C50 6 x 10(-12) M) was 3 times less potent than bombesin-14.
  • (3) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
  • (4) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
  • (5) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
  • (6) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (7) The proportion of motile spermatozoa decreased with time at the same rate when samples were prepared in either HEPES or phosphate buffers.
  • (8) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
  • (9) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
  • (10) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
  • (11) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
  • (12) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (13) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (14) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
  • (15) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
  • (16) ), the concentration of AMPO in the hypothalamus was 5.4 times the concentration at 20 h after one injection.
  • (17) Trifluoroacetylated rabbit serum albumin was 5 times more reactive with these antibodies and thus more antigenic than the homologous acetylated moiety confirming the importance of the trifluoromethyl moiety as an epitope in the immunogen in vivo.
  • (18) The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years.
  • (19) Lp(a) also complexes to plasmin-fibrinogen digests, and binding increases in proportion to the time of plasmin-induced fibrinogen degradation.
  • (20) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.