high tide
the tide at its highest level of elevation.
the time of high water.
a culminating point: the high tide of the revolution.
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How to use high tide in a sentence
Along coastlines, sea level rise has boosted high tides and increased the occurrence of sunny-day flooding.
Tennessee floods show a pressing climate danger across America: ‘Walls of water’ | Sarah Kaplan | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostThat works for a hot minute — until natural ocean currents, storms and high tides swallow that sand away.
Environment Report: Oceanside Looking to Grow a Groin or Two | MacKenzie Elmer | August 2, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoSunny day floods—which occur when high tides spill into roads and towns—are already a massive problem in the US.
Why we’re going to see a rapid rise in sunny day floods | Sara Chodosh | July 12, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe porous limestone underneath Miami allows the rising seas to filter up through the ground, causing flooding during high tides even on sunny days.
Before condo collapse, rising seas have long pressured Miami coastal properties | Josh Partlow, Darryl Fears, Jim Morrison, Jon Swaine | June 25, 2021 | Washington PostThe Atlantic Ocean, visible from your raised ground just beyond the dunes, a mere gap wedge away at high tide, laps at the shore.
Golf thrives on the ocean’s edge. What happens when the oceans rise? | Dave Sheinin | May 20, 2021 | Washington Post
If you are in your late 50s, you are probably too young to remember the high tide of Kennedy-Johnson big government liberalism.
According to François Dosse, the author of a monumental History of Structuralism, 1966 marked the high tide of this new paradigm.
Derrida’s ‘Of Grammatology’ and the Birth of Deconstruction | Benoît Peeters | December 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe surge was coming not at high tide as it had during the hurricane, but as the tide was falling.
Nor’easter Brings Dangerous Beauty to Rockaways After Hurricane Sandy | Michael Daly | November 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBefore high tide there were waves crashing against the building.
Jane’s Carousel Survives A Very Close Call With Hurricane Sandy | Matthew DeLuca | November 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMichael Daly reports on the damaging high tide—and the reports of building collapses.
How New York City Waited for the Worst of Hurricane Sandy | Michael Daly | October 29, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt occupies a commanding position on a point of land extending far into the sea and almost surrounded by water at high tide.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyPlaces on the Alaskan coast, laid bare at high tide, are said to have yielded as much as $12,000 per cubic yard.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge | VariousYou will think that you would rather elocute The high tide than even to have written it.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline | Jennie M. DrinkwaterThe walk led them by the sea-side, over the sands, and past the ruin, at the foot of which the waves broke at high tide.
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. FarrarThe King thereafter had them all taken out to a rock which was covered by the sea at high-tide and there let them be bound.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) | Snorri Sturluson
British Dictionary definitions for high tide
the tide at its highest level
the time at which it reaches this
a culminating point
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Scientific definitions for high tide
The tide when it is at its highest level at a particular time and place. The highest tides reached under normal meteorological conditions (the spring tides) take place when the Moon and Sun are directly aligned with respect to Earth. High tides are less extreme (the neap tides) when the Moon and Sun are at right angles. Storms and other meteorological conditions can greatly affect the height of the tides as well. See more at tide.
The time at which a high tide occurs.
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