Tide vs Inflow - What's the difference?
tide | inflow |
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 act or process of flowing in or into
Anything which flows in or into
Influence.
*2000 , Sandra Marie Schneiders, Finding the Treasure :
*2008 , Richard Calichman, Overcoming Modernity :
*2010 , Gabriel Ezutah, Trail of Immortality :
As nouns the difference between tide and inflow
is that tide is time while inflow is the act or process of flowing in or into.As a verb inflow is
to flow in.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 ----inflow
English
Noun
(en noun)- The inflow of air
- But there is also "top down causality" in which the entire system, as a whole, is affected by the inflow or influence of pattern formation, or "information."
- Broadly speaking, there are two cases in which a national culture is subjected to the sudden inflow or influence of a foreign culture: (1) when the former is conquered by the latter and (2) when it conquers the latter.
- Open yourself completely to the inflow and influence of the music and light of God through daily practice of the spiritual exercises, which he gives to you.