tide

Etymology 1

From Middle English tyde, tide, tyd, tid, from Old English tīd (“time”), from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to time. Cognates: Cognate with Scots tide, tyde (“moment, time, occasion, period, tide”), North Frisian tid (“time”), West Frisian tiid (“time, while”), Dutch tijd (“time”), Dutch tij, getij (“tide of the sea”), Afrikaans tyd (“time”), Low German Tied, Tiet (“time”), Low German Tide (“tide of the sea”), German Zeit (“time”), Danish tid (“time”), Swedish tid (“time”), Icelandic tíð (“time”), Albanian ditë (“day”), Old Armenian տի (ti, “age”), Northern Kurdish dem (“time”).

noun

1. The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
2. A stream, current or flood.
3. (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
   Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion
   at the tide / Of Christ his birth 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII
4. (regional, archaic) A time.
   The doctor's no good this tide.
5. (regional, archaic) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
   Eventide, noontide, morrowtide, nighttide, moon-tide, harvest-tide, wintertide, summertide, springtide, autumn-tide etc.,.
6. (mining) The period of twelve hours.
7. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
8. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
9. (obsolete) Violent confluence

verb

1. (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
   They are tided down the stream.
2. (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.
   The ocean tided most impressively.
3. (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

Etymology 2

From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English tīdan (“to happen”).

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.
   I wit not what may tide us here 1779, David Dalrymple, Annals of Scotland, volume II, page 121