Tide vs Draught - What's the difference?
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The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
A stream, current or flood.
(chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
(mining) The period of twelve hours.
Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
(obsolete) Violent confluence —
To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
* Feltham
To pour a tide or flood.
(nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
(obsolete) To happen, occur.
What should us tide of this new law? — Chaucer.
The action or an act of pulling something along, especially a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor.
* Sir W. Temple
The act of drawing, or pulling back.
* Spenser
That which is drawn.
* L'Estrange
That which draws, such as a team of oxen or horses.
Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
* Mortimer
The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.
A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation; a draft.
* Macaulay
* South
A current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle).
* Charles Dickens
(maritime) The depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's hull.
An amount of liquid that is drunk in one swallow.
* 1851 ,
*:“Drink and pass!” he cried, handing the heavy charged flagon to the nearest seaman. “The crew alone now drink. Round with it, round! Short draughts —long swallows, men; ’tis hot as Satan’s hoof.
The act of drawing in a net for fish.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke V:
* Sir M. Hale
(British) A game piece used in the game of draughts.
(Australia) A type of beer, brewed using a top-fermenting yeast; ale.
(UK, Ireland) Beer drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
(dated) A dose of medicine in liquid form.
* 1919 ,
(medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.
The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
(obsolete) A privy.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XV:
* 1623 , William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens :
(obsolete) A drawing or picture.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.22:
(obsolete) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.
* Spenser
(military) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft.
(military) The force drawn; a detachment; a draft.
To draw out; to call forth. See draft.
To diminish or exhaust by drawing.
* Sir Walter Scott
To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
(Webster 1913)
Tide is a related term of draught.
As nouns the difference between tide and draught
is that tide is time while draught is the action or an act of pulling something along, especially a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor.As a verb draught is
to draw out; to call forth see draft.tide
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tide, from (etyl) . Related to time.Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia tide)- (rfdate) Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.'' — Shakespeare, ''Timon of Athens , III-iv
- (rfdate) And rest their weary limbs a tide —
- (rfdate) Which, at the appointed tide , Each one did make his bride —
- (rfdate) ''At the tide of Christ his birth —
- (rfdate) There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.'' — Shakespeare. ''Julius Caesar , IV-iii
Derived terms
* astronomical tide * atmospheric tide * ebb tide * gravitational tide * high tide * hurricane tide * inferior tide * king tide * land tide * low tide * neap tide * oceanic tide * red tide * rip tide * spring tide * storm tide * terrestrial tide * thermal tide * tidal * tidal wave * tide day * tide crack * tide current * tide dial * tide-driven * tide duty * tide gate * tide gauge * tide harbour, tide harbor * tide hour * tide land * tidelands oil * tideless * tide lock * tide mark * tide mill * tide pole * tide pool * tide power * tide predictor * tide railroad * tide rip * tide rock * tide rode * tide runner * tidesman * tide stream * tide table * tide waiter, tidewaiter * tidewater, tide water * tide wave * tide way * tide wheel * tidy * work double tides * Ascensiontide * Christmastide * Eastertide * Passiontide * Rogationtide * WhitsuntideVerb
(tid)- ''They are tided down the stream.
- ''The ocean tided most impressively, even frightening
Derived terms
* tide overSee also
* ebb * flow * neap * springEtymology 2
From (etyl) tiden, tide, from (etyl) .Verb
(tid)Synonyms
* betide, befallAnagrams
* diet * edit * tied English terms with homophones English terms with multiple etymologies ----draught
English
Alternative forms
* draft (US)Noun
(en noun)- A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement.
- She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught .
- He laid down his pipe, and cast his net, which brought him a very great draught .
- The Hertfordshire wheel plough is of the easiest draught .
- (Dryden)
- A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member.
- No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye.
- He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in a strong draught of air, until he was again sent for.
- She took a deep draught from the bottle of water.
- he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nett to make a draught .
- Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left.
- Finally I gave him a draught , and he sank into uneasy slumber.
- to apply draughts to the feet
- Then sayde Jesus: are ye yett withoute understondinge? perceave ye not, that whatsoever goeth in at the mouth, descendeth doune into the bely, and ys cast out into the draught ?
- Rid me these Villaines from your companies; / Hang them, or stab them, drowne them in a draught , / Confound them by some course, and come to me, / Ile giue you Gold enough.
- And therefore, for the whole process, and full representation, there must be more than one draught ; the one representing him in station, the other in session, another in genuflexion.
- drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you
Synonyms
* (game) checkers * (mouthful of liquid) swigVerb
(en verb)- (Addison)
- The Parliament so often draughted and drained.