Tide

Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth.

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Famous quotes containing the word tide:

    “Ktaadn ... is an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, and it will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The tide rises, the tide falls,
    The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
    Along the sea-sands damp and brown
    The traveler hastens toward the town,
    And the tide rises, the tide falls.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “The sea is calm to-night.
    The tide is full, the moon lies fair
    Upon the straits;—”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)