Definition of "tides" []

• Plural form of tide. (noun)

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• "Thus the primary phenomenon of the tides is after all the tidal current; and it is the tidal currents that are referred to on charts where we have arrow-heads marked with the statement that we have “very little tide here, ” or that we have “strong tides” there."
• "Still, I say we have only definition to keep us clear of ambiguities and errors; and yet, to say that those motions of the sea which we call tides depend on the moon, was considered, even by Galileo, to be a lamentable piece of mysticism which he read with regret in the writings of so renowned an author as Kepler."
• "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger tides is directed by Rob Marshall and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer."