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Tide vs Exchange - What's the difference?

tide | exchange |

As nouns the difference between tide and exchange

is that tide is time while exchange is an act of exchanging or trading.

As a verb exchange is

to trade or barter.

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

    exchange

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) eschaunge, from (etyl) eschaunge, from (etyl) eschange (whence modern French ). Spelling later changed on the basis of ex- in English.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of exchanging or trading.
  • All in all, it was an even exchange .
    an exchange of cattle for grain
  • A place for conducting trading.
  • The stock exchange is open for trading.
  • A telephone exchange.
  • (telephony, US only? ) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes).
  • The 555 exchange is reserved for use by the phone company, which is why it's often used in films.
    NPA-NXX-1234 is standard format, where NPA is the area code and NXX is the exchange .
  • A conversation.
  • After an exchange with the manager, we were no wiser.
  • * 2014 , Ian Black, " Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
  • “Why bother with the daily grind when you can go to Mosul, get paid $400 a month, get a wife – and live an Islamic way,” went an exchange between two men overheard by a fellow passenger in a taxi. Rumour has it that a woman whose husband died fighting with Isis now receives a generous widow’s pension from jihadi coffers.
  • (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another
  • # The loss of a relatively minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook
  • (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
  • (Shakespeare)
    Derived terms
    * bet exchange * bill of exchange * exchange rate * foreign exchange * foreign exchange market * ion exchange * ion exchange chromatography * ion exchange resin * key exchange * link exchange * local exchange carrier * means of exchange * medium of exchange * private branch exchange * stock exchange * telephone exchange

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) eschaungen, from (etyl) eschaungier, eschanger, from the (etyl) verb eschangier, ).

    Verb

    (exchang)
  • To trade or barter.
  • I'll gladly exchange my place for yours.
  • To replace with, as a substitute.
  • I'd like to exchange this shirt for one in a larger size.
    Since his arrest, the mob boss has exchanged a mansion for a jail cell.
    Derived terms
    * exchange flesh * exchanger * exchange vows