flood tide
Incoming ocean surge
Flood tide is the incoming tide, when water rises from low to high tide.
The opposite is ebb tide.
Figuratively, a flood tide is a surge or high point of something: a flood tide of immigration, the flood tide of her career.
The image suggests abundance and forward momentum.
Arriving stream or current
current · stream · torrent · deluge · engulfment · overflow · inundation · rushing
Trilinear celestial arrangement
- slack waterMotionless tidal period
- water levelHeight of liquid surface
- sea levelElevation reference point
- gravitational pullAttractive force between masses
full moon · new moon · lunar cycle · estuary · intertidal · brackish
Extravagant amount present
- outpouringCopious, spontaneous release
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- waveOscillating motion through medium
- delugeSevere overflow of water
torrent · avalanche · groundswell · upsurge · proliferation · explosion · boom · rush
inflow
Arriving stream or current
rise · current · stream · torrent · deluge · engulfment · overflow · inundation · rushing · gush
syzygy
Trilinear celestial arrangement
- slack waterMotionless tidal period
- water levelHeight of liquid surface
- sea levelElevation reference point
gravitational pull · full moon · new moon · lunar cycle · estuary · intertidal · brackish
profusion
Extravagant amount present
- outpouringCopious, spontaneous release
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- waveOscillating motion through medium
deluge · torrent · avalanche · groundswell · upsurge · proliferation · explosion · boom · rush · cascade
high point
Best part of something
apex · climax · culmination · height · pinnacle · acme · summit · fullness · crescendo · high-water mark
shoreline
Land-water boundary
mangroves · foreshore · littoral · sandbar · saltmarsh · seawall · harbor · mudflat · inlet · bay
- tidal featuresintertidal zone
- tides (juvenile)water levels, ocean, waves, shore, shoreline
- coastal habitatsshoreline, shorelines, coastline, mudflat, coastlines
- tidal movementsebb, slack water, slack, diurnal, semidiurnal
- tidal phenomena
- tidal riversThames, Hudson, Severn, Delaware, Potomac