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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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Every 12 hours the water level oscillates between high tide and low tide, but the pattern of tidal waves is surprisingly complex.
Sometimes on an exceptionally high tide the water flows over the weir causing a tidal effect as far up as Kingston.
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.
At low tide the river level can be 15 feet or more lower than at high tide.
The fishing behind the boxes has slowed down considerably due to the havoc caused by the seals that come into the Ridge Pool with the high tide.
I've been to mud flats where there's a six-foot difference between high tide and low tide.

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