What Is the High Tide Mark?

A high water mark is a point that represents the maximum rise of a body of water over land. Such a mark is often the result of a flood, but high water marks may reflect an all-time high, an annual high or the high point for some other division of time.

What is high and low water mark?

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English high/low watermarkAmerican English a line showing the highest or lowest levels of the sea SYN tide-mark British English → watermarkExamples from the Corpushigh/low watermark• Penal Policy in a Changing Society stands as the high watermark of what later became known as the ...

What is the tide mark?

1a : a high-water or sometimes low-water mark left by tidal water or a flood. b : a mark placed to indicate this point. 2 : the point to which something has attained or below which it has receded the tidemark of tolerance has risen — New Republic.

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