high tide

alta marea

Condizione del mare quando raggiunge il livello più alto nel ciclo delle maree.

In inglese semplice: The state when the sea reaches its highest level in its regular rise and fall.

• The beach disappears at high tide.
• High tide covered the rocks near the harbour.
• Do waves reach the wall at high tide?

Sinonimi: high water

Contrari: low tide

Espressioni comuni: at high tide, high tide water

ora dell’alta marea

Momento in cui il mare raggiunge il livello più alto nel ciclo delle maree.

In inglese semplice: The time when the sea reaches its highest level during its regular rise and fall.

• High tide is at noon.
• We arrived an hour before high tide.
• What time is high tide tomorrow morning?

Sinonimi: high water

Contrari: low tide

Espressioni comuni: before high tide, high tide tomorrow

apice, culmine

Momento o periodo in cui qualcosa raggiunge la massima forza, il massimo successo o sviluppo.

In inglese semplice: The point or period when something is strongest, most successful, or most developed.

• This was the high tide of his power.
• The movement reached its high tide in the seventies.
• Those years were the high tide of the city’s prosperity.

Come si usa: the high tide of something (The exhibition marked the high tide of her career.)

Sinonimi: peak, climax, zenith

Contrari: low point

Espressioni comuni: the high tide, high tide of