spring tide

noun

the large rise and fall of the tide at or soon after the new or the full moon.

any great flood or swelling rush: a spring tide of compliments.

Origin of spring tide

First recorded in 1520–30

Words nearby spring tide

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Example sentences from the Web for spring tide

Reading and the spring-tide beauties of the Thames valley had gone by in the morning.

Tante |Anne Douglas Sedgwick
It was a spring-tide at half ebb; and the current, which was running fast and furiously, bore him instantly away.

Jack Sheppard, Vol. I (of III) |W. Harrison Ainsworth
The spring-tide shows but a bloom of unvarying freshness; August has languished and loved in the strength of the sun.

Confessions of a Young Man |George Moore
When the turn did come, over his being love rushed up like a spring-tide from the ocean of the Infinite.

Robert Falconer |George MacDonald

Now was the winter gone and the spring-tide come again, and with the blossoming of the earth blossomed Birdalone also.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles |William Morris

British Dictionary definitions for spring tide

spring tide

noun

either of the two tides that occur at or just after new moon and full moon when the tide-generating force of the sun acts in the same direction as that of the moon, reinforcing it and causing the greatest rise and fall in tidal level. The highest spring tides (equinoctial springs) occur at the equinoxes Compare neap tide

any great rush or flood

Scientific definitions for spring tide

spring tide

A tide in which the difference between high and low tide is the greatest. Spring tides occur when the Moon is either new or full, and the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth are aligned. When this is the case, their collective gravitational pull on the Earth's water is strengthened. Compare neap tide. See more at tide.

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spring tide

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