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Tide vs Efflux - What's the difference?

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Tide is a related term of efflux.


As nouns the difference between tide and efflux

is that tide is time while efflux is the process of flowing out.

As a verb efflux is

to run out.

tide

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) tide, from (etyl) . Related to time.

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia tide)
  • 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.
    • (rfdate) Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.'' — Shakespeare, ''Timon of Athens , III-iv
  • (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
    • (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 —
  • (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.
    • (rfdate) There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.'' — Shakespeare. ''Julius Caesar , IV-iii
  • (obsolete) Violent confluence —
    • 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 * Whitsuntide

    Verb

    (tid)
  • To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
  • * Feltham
    • ''They are tided down the stream.
  • To pour a tide or flood.
    • ''The ocean tided most impressively, even frightening
  • (nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
    • Derived terms
    * tide over

    See also

    * ebb * flow * neap * spring

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) tiden, tide, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (tid)
  • (obsolete) To happen, occur.
  • What should us tide of this new law? — Chaucer.
    • Synonyms
    * betide, befall

    Anagrams

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    efflux

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The process of flowing out.
    • We all age through the efflux of time.
    The efflux of matter from a boil can be painful.
  • * 1832 , Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening , page 398,
    • It is there that the devout affections, undisturbed by other faculties, are incessantly in efflux .
  • * 1988 , Elizabeth Sagey, Degree of closure in complwx segments'', Norval Smith, Harry van der Hulst (editors), ''Features, Segmental Structure and Harmony Processes , Part 1, Linguistic Models 12a, page 176,
    • The remaining effluxes are pronounced without audible velar release.
  • * 2003 , Awtar Krishan, Flow cytometric monitoring of drug resistance in human tumor cells'', R.C. Sobti, A. Krishan (editors), ''Advanced Flow Cytometry: Applications in Biological Research , page 55,
    • By facilitating efflux of drugs from the intracellular domain, these proteins reduce cytotoxicity and thus confer drug resistance.
  • That which has flowed out.
    • the efflux of a boil
  • * Thomson
    • Prime cheerer, light! Efflux divine.
  • * 1963 , Arnold Reymond, History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity , page 31,
    • Thus between the earth and the sky there is a perpetual exchange of effluxes' following a double way, ascending and descending. From the earth and sea arise ' effluxes , some dry, others moist.

    Synonyms

    * (process of flowing out) outflow, effluxion, effluence * (that which has flowed out) outflow

    Verb

    (es)
  • To run out.
  • To flow forth.
  • (obsolete) To pass away.