Spring-tide Synonyms

A tide in which the difference between high and low tide is the greatest. Spring tides occur when the Moon is either new or full, and the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth are aligned. When this is the case, their collective gravitational pull on the Earth's water is strengthened.
Synonyms:
  1. flood-tide
  2. high-tide
  3. high-water

Spring-tide Sentence Examples

  • Beaches The beach is the area between the lowest spring tide level and the point reached by the storm waves in the highest tides.

  • The substantial education supplied by the parish schools, of which nearly the whole population could then avail themselves, had diffused through all ranks such a measure of intelligence as enabled them promptly to discern and skilfully and energetically to take advantage of this spring-tide of prosperity, and to profit by the agricultural information now plentifully furnished by means of the Bath and West of England Society, established in 1777; the Highland Society, instituted in 1784; and the National Board of Agriculture, in 1793.

  • It consists of two parts, an outer and tidal harbour 171 acres in extent, and an inner basin 15 acres in extent, with a depth on sill at ordinary spring tide of 25 ft.

  • There is a part of an old wreck that can be seen on a big ebb spring tide.

  • It grows just above normal spring tide high water mark and has prospered after assiduous protection by members of the island community.

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