Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: tidal
IPA transcription: [t'aɪdəl]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: tidal
    Meaning: of or relating to or caused by tides; "tidal wave"
Usage examples
  • The scouring action of the tidal currents themselves is not to be despised.
  • When the wave of fire was going over us, a tidal wave of the sea came out from the shore and did the rest.
  • Think of a shoreline, once lined with mighty buildings, after the passage of a tidal wave greater than ever before known to man.
  • We have seen that the moon pulls the tidal hump nearest to it back; but action and reaction are always equal and opposite--it cannot do that without itself getting pulled forward.
  • Not so limited, however, as they would be without the tides. Consider for a moment the denudation import of the tides: how does the existence of tidal rise and fall affect the geological problem?
  • "That tidal wave picked the ship up like a canoe and then smashed her. After one list to starboard the ship righted, but the masts, the bridge, the funnel and all the upper works had gone overboard.
  • Evidently, however, tidal phenomena must be taken into consideration in any treatment of the solar system through enormous length of time, and it will probably play a large part in determining its future.
  • Hence, the tidal reaction on the moon, having as its primary effect, as we have seen, the pulling the moon a little forward, has also the secondary or indirect effect of making it move slower and go further off.
  • The hypothesis that the bodies are rigid is not strictly true: and directly tidal deformation is taken into consideration it is perceived to be a potent factor, able in the long run to upset all their calculations.
  • Also that the moon's rotation relative to the earth has been destroyed by past tidal action in it (the only residue of ancient lunar rotation now being a scarcely perceptible libration), so that it turns always the same face towards us.