From en.wiktionary.org:
[-ebb]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Pronunciation
- [ĕb] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], [gem-pro], from [en], from [en].
See also [fy], [nl], [de], [da], [non], [ang]. More at [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. The receding movement of the tide .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1824 | author=w:Mary Shelley | title= Basa Sunda: Time (Shelley)
|passage=Thou shoreless flood which in thy EBB and flow / Claspest the limits
of morality!}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1902 | author=John Buchan | title=The Outgoing of the Tide
|passage=Men come from distant parts to admire the tides of Solway, which race
in at flood and retreat at EBB with a greater speed than a horse can follow.}}
1. A gradual decline.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1684 | author=w:Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon | title=Essay on Translated Verse
|passage=Thus all the treasure of our flowing years, / Our EBB of life for
ever takes away.}}
1. * [text=This reflection thawed my congealing blood, and again the tide of life and love flowed impetuously onward, again to EBB as my busy thoughts changed.]
2. * [en]
3. [en] A low state; a state of depression.
4. * [passage=Painting was then at its lowest EBB .]
5. * 2002 , [Joyce Carol Oates] , _The New Yorker_ , 22 & 29 April
6. *: A "lowest EBB " implies something singular and finite, but for many of us, born in the Depression and raised by parents distrustful of fortune, an " EBB " might easily have lasted for years.
7. * [en]
8. A European bunting , the corn bunting ( [Emberiza calandra] , syns. [Emberiza miliaria] , [Milaria calandra] ).
***** Antonyms
- [en]
- [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
***** Translations
[receding movement of the tide]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Unami: [unm]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[Originally glossed as "low tide" but this is not one of the given definitions
of ebb. Please check for applicability to "receding movement of the tide"]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
- West Frisian: [fy]
[trans-bottom]
**** Adjective
[er]
1. low , shallow
2. * {{ RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World
|passage=All the sea lying betweene, is verie EBBE, full of shallowes and
shelves}}
*** Etymology 2
From [en], from [en], from [en].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] to flow back or recede
2. [en] to fall away or decline
3. [en] to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
4. [en] To cause to flow back.
5. * [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[to fall away or decline]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca] (la marea)
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Maori: [mi] [of the tide] , [mi] , [mi] [of the tide] , [mi] [of the tide] , [mi] [of the tide]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
From [sv] or [sv].
*** Noun
[c]
1. [en] , low tide
**** Declension
[2=ebben]
**** See also
- [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]
- [saob]