highwater (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *highwater*:
NOUN	event	highwater, high tide, high water	the tide when the water is highest

English > *highwater*: 1 sense > noun 1, event
Meaning	The tide when the water is highest.
Synonyms	high tide, high water
Narrower	direct tide	The occurrence of high tide on one side of the earth coinciding with high tide on the opposite side
	neap tide, neap	A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon
	springtide	A greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons
Broader	tide	The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
Opposite	low tide, low water	The lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide
Spanish	marea alta, pleamar
Catalan	marea alta, plenamar

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