TIDAL FLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tidal flow mean? 

• TIDAL FLOW (noun)
  The noun TIDAL FLOW has 1 sense:

1. the water current caused by the tides

  Familiarity information: TIDAL FLOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIDAL FLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The water current caused by the tides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

tidal current; tidal flow

Hypernyms ("tidal flow" is a kind of...):

current; stream (a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tidal flow"):

aegir; bore; eager; eagre; tidal bore (a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary))

Holonyms ("tidal flow" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

When mammals exhale, the depleted air follows the same route out of the body, exhibiting a so-called tidal flow pattern.

(Following the lizard lung labyrinth, National Science Foundation)

His blood was too congealed to accelerate to the swift tidal flow of indignation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In contrast, bird breath travels in this tidal flow pattern through part of the respiratory system, but in a one-way loop throughout most of the lung.

(Following the lizard lung labyrinth, National Science Foundation)