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tidal wave

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tidal wavenoun

    an overwhelming manifestation of some emotion or phenomenon

    "a tidal wave of nausea"; "the flood of letters hit him with the force of a tidal wave"; "a tidal wave of crime"

  2. tidal wavenoun

    an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide

  3. tidal wavenoun

    a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun

Wiktionary

  1. tidal wavenoun

    A large and sudden rise and fall in the tide.

  2. tidal wavenoun

    A large, sudden, and disastrous wave of water caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean; a tsunami. (See Usage notes below.)

  3. tidal wavenoun

    A sudden and powerful surge.

  4. tidal wavenoun

    A crest of ocean water; a wave.

  5. tidal wavenoun

    A crest of ocean water resulting from tidal forces.

Wikipedia

  1. Tidal Wave

    Tidal Wave is the third single by British DJ and record producer Sub Focus to be released from his second studio album Torus. The song features vocals from Alpines. The song peaked at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart and number four on the UK Dance Chart, making it his highest-charting single until "Endorphins" and "Turn Back Time", which both peaked at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart. It is still his highest-charting single on the UK Dance Chart and his biggest-selling single.

ChatGPT

  1. tidal wave

    A tidal wave is a large ocean wave, especially one caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption (commonly known as a tsunami). However, the term is often misused to refer to everyday, regular sea waves. It was historically used to refer to a tide-like wave occurring in rivers and other enclosed bodies of water and not related to sea tides.

Wikidata

  1. Tidal Wave

    Tidal Wave is the name of a fictional character from Transformers: Armada and Transformers: Energon. He is a Decepticon, and at one point of the Energon series, he was rebuilt as Mirage. His Japanese name is Shockwave, and later, Shockfleet.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. tidal wave

    The wave caused by the combined action of the sun and moon: its greatest influence is felt some time after the moon has passed the meridian of any place.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tidal wave in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tidal wave in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of tidal wave in a Sentence

  1. Alex Moffat:

    And now they want the honorable justice to recuse Brian Kilmeade. I mean, you're allowed to speak your mind, yes, and I don't want any trouble. I take my duty as the Yoko Ono of Supreme Court very seriously. All I want is the tidal wave of biblical vengeance to wash away the Joe Biden crime family all the way to Gitmo and then we release the kraken.

  2. Matt Moore:

    President Obama won two terms due to his overwhelming success among young and minority voters, in 2016 and beyond, our party faces a demographic tidal wave unless we get ahead of it.

  3. Willie Euper:

    At about 5:30 this morning, we heard a big boom on the side of our house, then all of a sudden it came in like a tidal wave, they told us about the big flood coming and everybody was kind of skeptical cause Ive been out here for 11 years and Ive never seen this.

  4. Rick Hutcheon:

    It's emotion, it's sentiment, and the market is getting pushed back and forth, let the tidal wave, the tsunami play itself out and then we'll figure out what's going on.

  5. Byron Callan:

    It will be more about ripples than a tidal wave.


Translations for tidal wave

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  • при́ливна вълна́Bulgarian
  • přílivová vlnaCzech
  • llanwdonWelsh
  • tsunami, flodbølgeDanish
  • Flutwelle, TsunamiGerman
  • παλιρροϊκό κύμαGreek
  • maremotoSpanish
  • vuorovesiaalto, tulva, tsunami, aalto, tulvavuoksi, hyökyaalto, hyökyFinnish
  • tsunami, raz-de-maréeFrench
  • muirbhrúcht, súnámaí, tonn tuileIrish
  • cunami, fellángolás, nagy érzelmi hullám, szökőárHungarian
  • maremoto, marea, tsunami, onda di mareaItalian
  • 津波, 潮波, 大動揺, 大変動Japanese
  • 해일, 쓰나미Korean
  • paisuma vilnis, cunamiLatvian
  • vloedgolf, golf, tsunamiDutch
  • tidevannsbølge, flodbølge, tsunamiNorwegian
  • maremoto, onda de maré, onda, tsunamiPortuguese
  • цуна́ми, прили́вная волна́, океани́ческая волна́, прили́вRussian
  • tidvattensvåg, flodvåg, tsunami, tidvattenvågSwedish
  • கடல் அலைTamil
  • టైడల్ వేవ్Telugu
  • 浪潮Chinese

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