Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tideline

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tide-line
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A line of floating debris, seaweed etc. that marks the boundary between two surface currents.

Example Sentences

"And last year, at 5:26 a.m. on August 10, a whole mountainside toppled into the tideline of the shrunken Sawyer Glacier, not far from the Alaskan capital, Juneau. The impact jetted a tsunami a staggering 500 meters up the walls of the fjord."

Etymology

From tide + line.

Inflected Forms

tidelines (plural)

Questions

What does tideline mean?: A line of floating debris, seaweed etc. that marks the boundary between two surface currents.
Where does tideline come from?: From tide + line.

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