atmospheric tide

Save This Word!

noun Meteorology.

a movement of atmospheric masses caused by the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon and by daily solar heating.

QUIZ

GOOSES. GEESES. I WANT THIS QUIZ ON PLURAL NOUNS!

Test how much you really know about regular and irregular plural nouns with this quiz.

Question 1 of 9

Which of the following nouns has an irregular plural form?

Origin of atmospheric tide

First recorded in 1825–35

But the tide was turning on this issue, an email from another constituent made clear.
Jeb Bush’s Unseen Anti-Gay Marriage Emails|Jackie Kucinich|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Instead of decorating every face on the street, Google Glass hit a contrarian rip tide.
You Were Wrong About Miley & Bitcoin: 2014’s Failed Predictions|Nina Strochlic|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Dear Thief is worthy of the abused critical adjectives philosophical, atmospheric, and masterful.
A Novel Nearly Impossible to Review|Nicholas Mancusi|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Objectively, they are not just riding with the tide, but helping to guide its very direction.
Corporations Are No Longer Silent on LGBT Issues||December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

But before a new tide of tourists can flow from Miami to Havana, Cuba will need to build more runways.
Goodbye, Bahamas. Hello, Havana!|Clive Irving|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His ear, his brain, his muscles take on a new joyous activity, and the tide of life rises higher.
Children's Ways|James Sully
They climbed another dune, and came upon the great gray sea at low tide.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
It seemed; it truly seemed as if the tide of blue, grey, scarlet specks was submerging the enemy's strongholds.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
The blood rushed in a hot tide into the girl's pale wet face, and yet she shivered as if an arrow had pierced her heart.
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie
The steam pressure in the Newcomen atmospheric was continued unaltered in the Watt vacuum engine.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick