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 Translation for 'tidal wave' from English to Polish
NOUN   a tidal wave | tidal waves
fala {f} pływowatidal wave
Partial Matches
energia {f} pływówtidal power
ekol.tech.
elektrownia {f} pływowa
tidal power
fala {f}wave
machać [niedok.]to wave
pomachać [dok.]to wave
tech.
fala {f} radiowa
radio wave
geol.
fala {f} sejsmiczna
seismic wave
fala {f} uderzeniowashock wave
fiz.
fala {f} beta
beta wave
fala {f} przestępstwcrime wave
fiz.
fala {f} poprzeczna
transverse wave
tech.
długofalowy {adj}
long-wave [radio]
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Usage Examples English
  • In the seventeenth century there was François de Nomé's "The Fall of Atlantis", which shows a tidal wave surging toward a Baroque city frontage.
  • Then an incident tidal wave can be reinforced by reflections between the coast and the shelf edge, the result producing a much higher tidal range at the coast.
  • His contemporary and friend, Braulio of Zaragoza, regarded him as a man raised up by God to save the Spanish peoples from the tidal wave of barbarism that threatened to inundate the ancient civilization of Hispania.
  • It became the chief town after Jamestown, Nevis’s first settlement, was inundated by a tidal wave in 1680.
  • In the Tahitian story of Rata 'Aremata-Popoto ("tidal wave") and 'Aremata-Roroa ("long wave") are two ocean-dwelling monsters that Rata must overcome.

  • In the same year an army of Tryphon's routed a pro-Demetrius force under Sarpedon between Ptolemais and Tyre, but as they were marching along the coast in pursuit, a great tidal wave wiped out the army, according to Athenaeus.
  • The CGI tools developed for "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" allowed ILM to complete the rumored tidal wave sequence, as well as correcting flaws in rendering for all their other work done for the film.
  • A 1969 episode of the TV crime show "Hawaii Five-O" entitled "Forty Feet High and It Kills!" used the terms "tsunami" and "tidal wave" interchangeably.
  • The attacks were part of an intensification of the US-led military intervention against ISIL called Operation Tidal Wave II (named after the original Operation Tidal Wave during World War II, a failed attempt to raid German oil fields that resulted in heavy aircraft and aircrew loss) in an attempt to cut off oil smuggling as a source of funding for the group.
  • The NDP lost only one seat, which was far better than expected considering the size of the PC tidal wave.

  • During spring tides, more energy is absorbed from the tidal wave compared to neap tides.
  • In both cases the tidal wave moves at the speed characteristic of waves in water of the depth found immediately behind the wave front.
  • The website's critical consensus reads, "A tidal wave of melodrama sinks "Deep Impact" [...] s chance at being the memorable disaster flick it aspires to be."
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