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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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At high tide, the little bay looks deep and blue and can even develop some modest whitecaps.
Every 12 hours the water level oscillates between high tide and low tide, but the pattern of tidal waves is surprisingly complex.
As high tide approached early Monday afternoon, surface winds pushed water against the sea wall and flooded a short stretch of Sunrise Drive.
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.
I've been to mud flats where there's a six-foot difference between high tide and low tide.
The storm arrived slowly, brought in the high tide and the storm surge into this area.

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