Tide vs. Current — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tide and Current
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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. Tide tables can be used for any given locale to find the predicted times and amplitude (or "tidal range").
Current
Belonging to the present time; happening or being used or done now
Keep abreast of current events
I started my current job in 2001
Tide
The periodic variation in the surface level of the oceans and of bays, gulfs, inlets, and estuaries, caused by gravitational attraction of the moon and sun.
Current
A body of water or air moving in a definite direction, especially through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement
Ocean currents
Tide
A specific occurrence of such a variation
Awaiting the next high tide.
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Current
A flow of electricity which results from the ordered directional movement of electrically charged particles
This completes the circuit so that a current flows to the lamp
Magnetic fields are produced by currents flowing in the cables
Tide
Flood tide.
Current
The general tendency or course of events or opinion
The student movement formed a distinct current of protest
Tide
Tidal force.
Current
Belonging to the present time; present-day
Current events.
Current leaders.
My current address.
Tide
Something that increases, decreases, or fluctuates like the waters of the tide
A rising tide of skepticism.
The shifting tide of the battle.
Current
Being in progress now
Current negotiations.
Tide
A large amount or number moving or occurring in a mass
An incoming tide of immigrants.
A tide of angry letters.
Current
Commonly accepted or used; prevalent
Current fashions.
Current technology.
Tide
A surge of emotion
Felt an irresistible tide of sympathy for the defendant.
Current
Passing from one to another; circulating, as money or a rumor
Current bills and coins.
Tide
A time or season. Often used in combination
Eventide.
Christmastide.
Shrovetide.
Current
Running; flowing.
Tide
A favorable occasion; an opportunity.
Current
A steady, smooth onward flow or movement
A current of air from a fan.
A current of spoken words.
Tide
To rise and fall like the tide.
Current
The part of a body of liquid or gas that has a continuous onward movement
Rowed out into the river's swift current.
Tide
(Nautical) To drift or ride with the tide
Tided off the reef.
Tiding up the Hudson.
Current
A general tendency, movement, or course.
Tide
To carry along with the tide.
Current
A flow of electric charge.
Tide
To betide; befall.
Current
The amount of electric charge flowing past a specified circuit point per unit time, usually expressed in amperes.
Tide
The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
Current
The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
Tide
A stream, current or flood.
Current
The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) nocap=a.
Tide
Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
Current
(electricity) the amount of electric charge flowing in each unit of time.
Tide
A time.
The doctor's no good this tide.
Current
A tendency or a course of events
Tide
A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
Eventide, noontide, morrowtide, nighttide, moon-tide, harvest-tide, wintertide, summertide, springtide, autumn-tide etc.,.
Current
Existing or occurring at the moment.
Current events
Current leaders
Current negotiations
Tide
(mining) The period of twelve hours.
Current
Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
Current affairs
Current bills and coins
Current fashions
Tide
Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
Current
(India) Electric; of or relating to electricity.
Current bill
Current shock
Tide
Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
Current
(obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.
Tide
(obsolete) Violent confluence
Current
Running or moving rapidly.
Like the current fire, that rennethUpon a cord.
To chase a creature that was current thenIn these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
Tide
(transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
Current
Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
Tide
(intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.
The ocean tided most impressively.
Current
Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.
Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current.
His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him.
Tide
To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
Current
Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
Tide
To happen, occur.
Current
Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
O Buckingham, now do I play the touchTo try if thou be current gold indeed.
Tide
Time; period; season.
And rest their weary limbs a tide.
Which, at the appointed tide,Each one did make his bride.
At the tide of Christ his birth.
Current
A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.
Two such silver currents, when they join,Do glorify the banks that bound them in.
The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction . . . the navigator should know.
Tide
The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. Hence, when the sun and moon are in conjunction or opposition, as at new moon and full moon, their action is such as to produce a greater than the usual tide, called the spring tide, as represented in the cut. When the moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the neap tide.
Current
General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
Tide
A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood.
Current
A flow of electricity through a conductor;
The current was measured in amperes
Tide
Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Current
A steady flow (usually from natural causes);
The raft floated downstream on the current
He felt a stream of air
Tide
Violent confluence.
Current
Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;
Two streams of development run through American history
Stream of consciousness
The flow of thought
The current of history
Tide
The period of twelve hours.
Current
Occurring in or belonging to the present time;
Current events
The current topic
Current negotiations
Current psychoanalytic theories
The ship's current position
Tide
To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
They are tided down the stream.
Tide
To betide; to happen.
What should us tide of this new law?
Tide
To pour a tide or flood.
Tide
To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
Tide
The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
Tide
Something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea);
A rising tide of popular interest
Tide
There are usually two high and two low tides each day
Tide
Rise or move foward;
Surging waves
Tide
Cause to float with the tide
Tide
Be carried with the tide
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