tide
noun
the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
tideless
-
a word derived from
tide.
Example Sentences
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I am unused to its almost tideless calm.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2021
Soon it was time for Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson's "dark tideless floods of nothingness."
From Time Magazine Archive
Tides can hardly be known in Finland, except by hearsay; the Baltic itself is almost tideless.
From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Elias Lönnrot
It was one of those delicious, calm evenings of the South, with the purple waters of the tideless Mediterranean being rapidly turned into orange and gold.
From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn
Off to my front stretched waters, so quiet that they seemed almost tideless, though at a distance I could hear the running of surf.
From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck
