Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: tides
IPA transcription: [t'aɪdz]
Usage examples
  • The tides flow on forever.
  • [III] You Tides with Ceaseless Swell
  • The tides of the earth are pushing it away.
  • These high tides of enormously distant past ages constitute the denuding agent which the geologist required.
  • So far we have dealt mainly with the earth and its moon; but is the existence of tides limited to these bodies?
  • Who would ever have imagined, under this terrestrial crust, an ocean with ebbing and flowing tides, with winds and storms?"
  • If either rotate on its axis, in the same or nearly the same plane as it revolves, that one is necessarily subject to tides.
  • In Celtic folk tales high tides and valley floods are accounted for by the presence of a "great beast" in sea, loch, or river.
  • But the constant motion of the tides offers, at some favored points, a source of power that will remain as long as the earth revolves upon its axis.
  • The energy of the tides is, in fact, continually being dissipated by friction, and all the energy so dissipated is taken from the rotation of the earth.