low tide
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- noun
- /loʊ taɪd/
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marea baja
- So we wait for low tide, and then close off the water lock at the mouth of the grand canal.
- exposed at low tide
- stranded at low tide
- water at low tide
You're like, I'm here half an hour before low tide.
- You're like, I'm here half an hour before low tide.
- So like when low tide is on one hemisphere, it's high tide on the other.
- Yes, On Earth, I'm expecting that the equator will have higher range between high and low tides than other latitudes would.
Examples
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We can explore the rock pools during low tide when the water recedes.
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Boat can't come till low tide in the morning.
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Right now we're in a low tide.
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At low tide, we can cross on foot.
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Now, this shows here that low tide was around midnight.
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I noticed one in particular at low tide.
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The small ones all feed at low tide in the shallow water.
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Holy Island can be reached by a causeway at low tide and is famous as a cradle of Christianity.
Academic text (1999) -
Most oysters occur at depths from 0.5 to 1.8 m at low tide.
Academic text (1996) -
Paco and Nora were married at low tide on the beach at Bolinas.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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The lowest tide level at the shore or in a river
Antonyms
How High
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the time when the sea is at its lowest level' is directly and literally derived from combining 'low' (of small height/level) with 'tide' (sea-level rise and fall), an adjective+noun composition that transparently describes the tide's level. This is a common, cross-linguistic, and non-idiomatic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
The noun low tide comes from the simple image of the sea moving out so the tide is low on the shore. Fishermen saw boats left on the sand at that time, so low tide means 'the time when the sea is at its lowest level'.