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Dictionary Results For "tidemark" [?]/[OPML]
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English

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Noun

tidemark

  1. a line (of seaweed or differently coloured sand etc) on the shore showing the level of high or low tide
  2. In the Context of any mark showing the limit of some past activity
  3. a line of scum left on a bath tub when the water is drained away
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tidemark \Tide"mark\, n.
1. a mark on a shore line indicating the normal level of the
water at high tide, caused by the action of the flowing
water; sometimes also used for the mark left at the point
of the normal low tide; -- called also high water mark.
[PJC]

2. [fig.] the maximum level which some activity has reached
and from which it has declined; -- called also {high water
mark}.
[PJC]
WordNet tidemark
n : indicator consisting of a line at the high-water or
low-water limits of the tides
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