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Tide can be a verb or a noun.
tide used as a verb:
- To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
"They are tided down the stream. — Feltham?" - To pour a tide or flood.
"The ocean tided most impressively, even frightening" - To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
- To happen, occur.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
tide used as a noun:
- The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
- A stream, current or flood.
"Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide. — Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, III-iv" - (obsolete except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
"And rest their weary limbs a tide — Edmund Spenser" - The period of twelve hours.
- Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
- Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — Shakespeare. Julius Caesar, IV-iii" - Violent confluence — Francis Bacon
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is tide?
- Verb usage: They are tided down the stream. — Feltham?
- Verb usage: The ocean tided most impressively, even frightening
- Noun usage: Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide. — Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, III-iv
- Noun usage: And rest their weary limbs a tide — Edmund Spenser
- Noun usage: Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride — Edmund Spenser
- Noun usage: At the tide of Christ his birth — Fuller?
- Noun usage: There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — Shakespeare. Julius Caesar, IV-iii
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of tide are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of tide, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
