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flood tide

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. climax, flood tidenoun

    the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding

    "the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success"

  2. flood tide, flood, rising tidenoun

    the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)

    "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare

Wiktionary

  1. flood tidenoun

    the period between low tide and the next high tide in which the sea is rising

  2. flood tidenoun

    the highest point of something; a climax

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  1. flood tide

    A flood tide is a period of time in each tidal cycle where the sea level rises or is coming in, due to the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. It is the part of tide between low water and the next high water, often leading to the highest level of water. It is the opposite of ebb tide.

Wikidata

  1. Flood Tide

    Flood Tide is an adventure novel by Clive Cussler. This is the 14th book featuring the author’s primary protagonist, Dirk Pitt. He must rescue illegal immigrants from a Chinese tycoon and locate the bones of the Peking Man, the famous lost example of Homo erectus. This book also introduces Juan Cabrillo and some of the Corporation of the future Oregon Files series of books.

Editors Contribution

  1. flood tide

    Incoming or rising tide, becomes a high tide.

    He is a Leaguer out and out—one who would rise to fortune on the flood tide of the mob?


    Submitted by anonymous on October 1, 2015  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of flood tide in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of flood tide in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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