low tide vs tide

low tide and tide both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
low tide	Yes	No	No	No
tide	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, tide is a hypernym of low tide; that is, tide is a word with a broader meaning than low tide:

low tide: the lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide
tide: the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon

low tide (noun)	tide (noun)
the lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide	the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
	something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea)
	there are usually two high and two low tides each day