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Definition of Tidal wave
1. Noun. An overwhelming manifestation of some emotion or phenomenon. "A tidal wave of crime"
2. Noun. An unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide.
3. Noun. A wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun.
Definition of Tidal wave
1. Noun. A large and sudden rise and fall in the tide. ¹
2. Noun. (proscribed) A large, sudden, and disastrous wave of water caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean; a tsunami. (See Usage notes below.) ¹
3. Noun. (figuratively) A sudden and powerful surge. ¹
4. Noun. (archaic) A crest of ocean water; a wave. ¹
5. Noun. (context: oceanography) A crest of ocean water resulting from tidal forces. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Tidal wave
1. The wave between the percussion wave and the dicrotic wave in the downward limb of the arterial pulse tracing. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tidal Wave
Literary usage of Tidal wave
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"The earthquakes caused some loss of human life, and a prodigious tidal wave swept
inland, carrying every thing before it and drowning a number of natives. ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"Шип™ 1 lunar tidal-wave on Lake Michigan, at Chicago; and thirty minutes after
the period of the moon's meridian passage as the average time of lunar high ..."
3. Reconstruction, Political and Economic, 1865-1877 by William Archibald Dunning (1907)
"CHAPTER XV THE "tidal wave" OF 1874 grave conditions in financial and industrial
affairs after the panic of September, 1873, naturally gave full occupation ..."
4. Reconstruction, Political and Economic, 1865-1877 by William Archibald Dunning (1907)
"CHAPTER XV THE "tidal wave" OF 1874 • THE grave conditions in financial and
industrial affairs after the panic of September, 1873, naturally gave full ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1861)
"diurnal lunar tidal-wave on Lake Michigan, at Chicago; and thirty minutes after
the period of the moon's meridian passage as the average time of lunar high ..."
6. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1901)
"... and for a moment I could not join in the grand old harmony, upon whose volume
the royal carriage seemed to move along, as on a tidal wave of sound. ..."
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