Tidal vs Ebb - What's the difference?
tidal | ebb |
relating to tides
The receding movement of the tide.
* (rfdate) Shelley
A gradual decline.
* (rfdate) Roscommon
A low state; a state of depression.
* (rfdate) Dryden
* 2002 , (Joyce Carol Oates), The New Yorker , 22 & 29 April
A European bunting, .
to flow back or recede
to fall away or decline
to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
To cause to flow back.
low, shallow
As adjectives the difference between tidal and ebb
is that tidal is relating to tides while ebb is low, shallow.As a noun ebb is
the receding movement of the tide.As a verb ebb is
to flow back or recede.tidal
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Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* intertidal * peritidal * subtidal * tidal acceleration * tidal air * tidal basin * tidal boat * tidal bore * tidal breath * tidal crack * tidal chart * tidal curve * tidal diamond * tidal flat * tidal harbour, tidal harbor * tidal island * tidal lag * tidally * tidal pool * tidal power * tidal river * tidal service * tidal shore * tidal town * tidal train * tidal waveAnagrams
* *ebb
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Noun
(en noun)- The boats will go out on the ebb .
- Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow / Claspest the limits of morality!
- Thus all the treasure of our flowing years, / Our ebb of life for ever takes away.
- Painting was then at its lowest ebb .
- A "lowest ebb'" implies something singular and finite, but for many of us, born in the Depression and raised by parents distrustful of fortune, an "' ebb " might easily have lasted for years.
Derived terms
* ebb and flow * ebb tideAntonyms
* flood * flowVerb
(en verb)- The tides ebbed at noon .
- The dying man's strength ebbed away .
- (Ford)
Synonyms
ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out, reflux, waneAdjective
(er)- The water there is otherwise very low and ebb . (Holland)