high tide

marea alta, pleamar

Estado del mar cuando alcanza su nivel más alto durante el ciclo de las mareas.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Sinónimos: high water

Antónimos: low tide

Expresiones frecuentes: at high tide, high tide water

hora de pleamar

Momento en que el mar alcanza su nivel más alto durante el ciclo de las mareas.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Sinónimos: high water

Antónimos: low tide

Expresiones frecuentes: before high tide, high tide tomorrow

apogeo, auge

Momento o período en que algo alcanza su mayor fuerza, éxito o desarrollo.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: the high tide of something (The exhibition marked the high tide of her career.)

Sinónimos: peak, climax, zenith

Antónimos: low point

Expresiones frecuentes: the high tide, high tide of