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    HIGH WATER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The tide when the water is highestplay

    Synonyms:

    high tide; high water; highwater

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural events

    Hypernyms ("high water" is a kind of...):

    tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "high water"):

    direct tide (the occurrence of high tide on one side of the earth coinciding with high tide on the opposite side)

    neap; neap tide (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)

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