tide vs flood tide

flood tide vs tide

tide and flood tide both are nouns.

tide is a verb but flood tide is not a verb.

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

As nouns, flood tide is a hyponym of tide; that is, flood tide is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than tide:

tide: the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
flood tide: the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)

Other hyponyms of tide include high tide, high water, highwater, low tide, low water, ebbtide, flood, rising tide, lee tide, leeward tide, slack tide, slack water.

tide (noun)	flood tide (noun)
the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon	the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea)	the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
there are usually two high and two low tides each day

tide (verb)	flood tide (verb)
rise or move forward
be carried with the tide
cause to float with the tide

Difference between tide and flood tide

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