high tide

marée haute

État de la mer lorsqu’elle atteint son niveau le plus haut dans le cycle des marées.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : high water

Contraires : low tide

Expressions courantes : at high tide, high tide water

heure de la marée haute

Moment où la mer atteint son niveau le plus haut dans le cycle des marées.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : high water

Contraires : low tide

Expressions courantes : before high tide, high tide tomorrow

apogée, point culminant

Moment ou période où quelque chose atteint sa plus grande force, réussite ou maturité.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : the high tide of something (The exhibition marked the high tide of her career.)

Synonymes : peak, climax, zenith

Contraires : low point

Expressions courantes : the high tide, high tide of