LOW TIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does low tide mean? 

• LOW TIDE (noun)
  The noun LOW TIDE has 1 sense:

1. the lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide

  Familiarity information: LOW TIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOW TIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

low tide; low water

Hypernyms ("low tide" is a kind of...):

tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)

Antonym:

high tide (the tide when the water is highest)

 Context examples 

North of Haulbowline Head, the land runs in a long way, leaving at low tide a long stretch of yellow sand.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Between the wharf and the bedroom window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Easter Island does not have streams that run nonstop but it does have an aquifer that produces freshwater seeps of brackish but drinkable water during low tide.

(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)