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What does high tide mean?

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Noun
  1. The natural tide at its highest level for a particular tidal cycle at a certain place.
  2. The time of day when the sea has risen to its highest level.
  3. (figuratively) climax, culminating point or phase
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I've been to mud flats where there's a six-foot difference between high tide and low tide.
Sometimes on an exceptionally high tide the water flows over the weir causing a tidal effect as far up as Kingston.
At high tide, the little bay looks deep and blue and can even develop some modest whitecaps.
It's high tide, so the sea in its surfeit doesn't pound itself against the shore but sends its waves softly like gulls gliding.
At high tide it is fully submerged, but at low tide the tip of the ceiling is just dry and can be seen from a boat.
As high tide approached early Monday afternoon, surface winds pushed water against the sea wall and flooded a short stretch of Sunrise Drive.

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