exceptionally large destructive wave that may be caused by earthquake or storm or other type of natural disturbance; rising ripple of water in the ocean; something stunning in volume or amount; overwhelming feeling or expression
An egregious misnomer for a type of wave that has nothing to do with tides or tide-producing forces See the more apt term seismic sea wave for a description
In popular usage, unusually high and hence destructive water level along the shore Refers to a storm surge, and more commonly (but erroneously) to a tsunami
A term that seismologists hate The correct word for the big waves people often call "tidal waves" is tsunami True "tidal waves" - or waves caused by the tides - are the ordinary waves people see on the ocean
If you describe a very large number of emotions, things, or people as a tidal wave, you mean that they all occur at the same time. The trade union movement was swept along by the same tidal wave of patriotism which affected the country as a whole = deluge
A tidal wave is a very large wave, often caused by an earthquake, that flows onto the land and destroys things. a massive tidal wave swept the ship up and away
(1) A wave, in the oceans and seas, produced by tides and TIDAL CURRENTS (2) Non-technical term in popular usage for an unusually high and destructive water level along a shore It usually refers to STORM SURGE or TSUNAMI
A shallow water wave caused by the gravitational interactions between the Sun, Moon, and Earth Essentially, high water is the crest of a tidal wave and low water, the trough Tidal current is the horizontal component of the particulate motion, while tide is manifested by the vertical component The observed tide and tidal current can be considered the result of the combination of several tidal waves, each of which may vary from nearly pure progressive to nearly pure standing and with differing periods, heights, phase relationships, and direction