# tie
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taɪ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪ
* Homophones: Tai, Thai, Ty

### Etymology 1

From Middle English teye (“cord, chain”), from Old English tēag, tēah (“cord, chain”), from Proto-West Germanic *taugu, from Proto-Germanic *taugō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-. Compare Danish tov, Icelandic taug.

#### Noun

tie (plural ties)
* A knot; a fastening.
* A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
* A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
    Synonym: necktie
* A lace-up shoe.
    Coordinate term: court shoe
    Oxford ties; Derby ties
** 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Makes a Sunday Afternoon Call”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 24:[…] the tip of her russet boot almost grazed that of his Oxford tie.
* A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
* A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
    Synonym: bond
    the sacred ties of friendship or of duty
    the ties of allegiance; the ties that bind
** 1866, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Prince and the Page:No distance breaks the tie of blood.
** 1983 December 31, Gary Phillips, “Gays in Gaol [Jail]: Who Cares”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 15:In most states the court view is that if a person rents (and particularly if it is only a room), does not have a car, does not live within a nuclear family unit, is not established in full-time employment, then that person is considered to be without ties and an itinerant and therefore ought not to be granted bail.
** 2004, Peter Bondanella, chapter 4, in Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, pages 231–232:The film ends with the colorful deaths of Nico's enemies after he thwarts their attempts to assassinate a U.S. Senator investigating ties between drug dealers and the CIA.
* (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
    Hyponym: tiebar
    Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.
    The short wooden bars are ties, and the long metal bars are rails.
* (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
    Synonym: (British) sleeper
* The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
    Synonym: draw
    Hyponym: stalemate
    It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score.
* (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
    Coordinate term: draw
* (sports, US) An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
** 2010, Scott Glabb, A Saint in the City: Coaching At-risk Kids to Be Champions, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 146:I thought José was still a point down. I thought he needed another takedown to tie and pull ahead, so I ordered José to let his man up. I looked up too late, realizing that José already scored a tie. By that point, the New Jersey champion got his ...
** 1971, Budapress News Service, Budapress Bulletin, volume 10, issues 27-52, page 8:
    […] game in the championships shouldering a vast disadvantage and was in due course defeated by Egyetértés, one of the newcomers in the first league. Eger, the other novice in the championships, also took off successfully scoring a tie with the Ruha ETO.
* (sports, British) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
    The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957.
* (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
    Coordinate term: slur
* (phonetic transcription) A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
    Wikipedia: tie (typography)
* (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
* (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
* (graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
* A tiewig.
** 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:[H]e ordered his boarders and apartments to be dished out for the occasion, spared no pains in adorning his own person, and in particular employed a whole hour in adjusting a voluminous tye, in which he proposed to make his appearance.

##### Usage notes

* In cricket, a tie and a draw are not the same. See Result (cricket).
* In music, not to be confused with a slur.

##### Derived terms

* angle tie
* ascot tie
* black-tie
* bolo tie
* bowtie
* bread tie
* cable tie
* chain tie
* cross-tie
* cup tie
* gut-tie
* hair tie
* kipper tie
* Oxford tie
* power tie
* railroad tie
* railway tie
* school tie
* shoelace tie
* shoe-tie
* soul tie
* statistical tie
* suit and tie
* tie bar
* tiebar
* tie beam
* tie belt
* tiebreaker
* tie breaker
* tie bush
* tie clasp
* tie clip
* tiedown
* tie-out
* tie periwig
* tiepin
* tie plate
* tie rod
* tie tack
* tie that binds
* tie-up
* tie wire
* tie wrap
* twisty tie
* two-legged tie
* white-tie
* white tie
* zip tie

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English teien, teiȝen, from Old English tīġan, tīeġan, from Proto-West Germanic *taugijan, from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to tug, draw”). Cognate with Icelandic teygja.

#### Verb

tie (third-person singular simple present ties, present participle tying, simple past and past participle tied)
* (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
    Tie this rope in a knot for me, please.
    Tie the rope to this tree.
* (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
    Tie a knot in this rope for me, please.
* (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
    Tie him to the tree.
** 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:In bond of virtuous love together tied.
* (transitive, sometimes figurative) To secure (something) by string or the like.
    Tie your shoes.
** 1660, [John] Dryden, Astraea Redux:Not tied to rules of policy, you find / Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.
* (ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
    They tied for third place.
    They tied the game.
* (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
    He tied me for third place.
* (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
* (US, dated, colloquial) To believe; to credit.
** 1929, Collier's, volume 84, page 56:[…] It seems they have sort of betrothal teas — can you tie it?" "Heavens!" said Mary […]
** 1940, Woman's Home Companion, volume 67, numbers 1-4, page 134:As the door slammed Pete turned to Hally, fuming. "Can you tie that? A little twopenny cold frightening him off."
* (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
** 2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl: 3rd Edition, page 814:So, a class for tying a hash to an ISAM implementation might provide an extra method to traverse a set of keys sequentially (the “S” of ISAM), since your typical DBM implementation can't do that.

##### Synonyms

* fasten
* link
* bind

##### Antonyms

* unfasten
* untie

##### Derived terms

* hog-tie
* ride and tie
* self-tying
* tick and tie
* tie a can to it
* tie-a-leaf
* tie back
* tie down
* tie-dye
* tie hand and foot
* tie in knots
* tie-in, tie in
* tie into
* tie in with
* tie off
* tie one on
* tie oneself in knots
* tie oneself to the mast
* tie oneself up in knots
* tie out
* tie over
* tier
* tie someone's hands
* tie someone's tubes
* tie the knot
* tie to
* tie up
* tongue-tie
* would lose one's head if it wasn't tied on

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### References

* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tie”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Further reading

* tie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* -ite, EIT, ETI, ITE, TEI

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse þegja, from Proto-Germanic *þagjaną, cognate with Swedish tiga, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þahan). The Germanic verb is probably cognate with Latin taceō (“to be silent”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtiːə/, [ˈtˢiːi]

### Verb

tie (past tense tav or tiede, past participle tiet)
* to be silent, fall silent

#### Conjugation

activepassive
present
tier
ties
past
tav or tiede
infinitive
tie
ties
imperative
ti
participle
present
tiende
past
tiet (auxiliary verb have)
gerund
tien :

#### Related terms

* tie stille

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From ti- (demonstrative correlative prefix) +‎ -e (correlative suffix of location).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtie]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ie
* Hyphenation: ti‧e

### Adverb

tie (accusative tien)
* there (demonstrative correlative of location)
    Iun nokton li havis strangan sonĝon. Voĉo diris al li: —Iru al Amsterdamo kaj tie sur la Papen-ponto vi trovos trezoron.
    One night he had a strange dream. A voice told him: "Go to Amsterdam and there over the Papen-bridge you will find a treasure.

#### Usage notes

When combined with ĉi, the adverbial particle of proximity, tie ĉi means here.

#### Derived terms

* ĉi tie, tie ĉi
* tiea
* tieulo

#### Related terms

* kie
* ie
* nenie

### See also
## Finnish
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee, from Proto-Finno-Permic *teje.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtie̯/, [ˈt̪ie̞̯]
* Rhymes: -ie
* Hyphenation: tie

### Noun

tie
* way, road, path, route (for travelling)
* road (way for travel, especially one that is large enough to allow cars to pass)
* (figuratively) road, way, route
    tie onneen ― the road to happiness
* (figuratively) way, means, approach

#### Declension

Possessive forms of tie (Kotus type 19/suo, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tieni
tieni
accusative
nom.
tieni
tieni
gen.
tieni
genitive
tieni
teideni teitteni
partitive
tietäni
teitäni
inessive
tiessäni
teissäni
elative
tiestäni
teistäni
illative
tieheni
teihini
adessive
tielläni
teilläni
ablative
tieltäni
teiltäni
allative
tielleni
teilleni
essive
tienäni
teinäni
translative
tiekseni
teikseni
abessive
tiettäni
teittäni
instructive
comitative
—teineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tiesi
tiesi
accusative
nom.
tiesi
tiesi
gen.
tiesi
genitive
tiesi
teidesi teittesi
partitive
tietäsi
teitäsi
inessive
tiessäsi
teissäsi
elative
tiestäsi
teistäsi
illative
tiehesi
teihisi
adessive
tielläsi
teilläsi
ablative
tieltäsi
teiltäsi
allative
tiellesi
teillesi
essive
tienäsi
teinäsi
translative
tieksesi
teiksesi
abessive
tiettäsi
teittäsi
instructive
comitative
—teinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tiemme
tiemme
accusative
nom.
tiemme
tiemme
gen.
tiemme
genitive
tiemme
teidemme teittemme
partitive
tietämme
teitämme
inessive
tiessämme
teissämme
elative
tiestämme
teistämme
illative
tiehemme
teihimme
adessive
tiellämme
teillämme
ablative
tieltämme
teiltämme
allative
tiellemme
teillemme
essive
tienämme
teinämme
translative
tieksemme
teiksemme
abessive
tiettämme
teittämme
instructive
comitative
—teinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tienne
tienne
accusative
nom.
tienne
tienne
gen.
tienne
genitive
tienne
teidenne teittenne
partitive
tietänne
teitänne
inessive
tiessänne
teissänne
elative
tiestänne
teistänne
illative
tiehenne
teihinne
adessive
tiellänne
teillänne
ablative
tieltänne
teiltänne
allative
tiellenne
teillenne
essive
tienänne
teinänne
translative
tieksenne
teiksenne
abessive
tiettänne
teittänne
instructive
comitative
—teinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tiensä
tiensä
accusative
nom.
tiensä
tiensä
gen.
tiensä
genitive
tiensä
teidensä teittensä
partitive
tietään tietänsä
teitään teitänsä
inessive
tiessään tiessänsä
teissään teissänsä
elative
tiestään tiestänsä
teistään teistänsä
illative
tiehensä
teihinsä
adessive
tiellään tiellänsä
teillään teillänsä
ablative
tieltään tieltänsä
teiltään teiltänsä
allative
tielleen tiellensä
teilleen teillensä
essive
tienään tienänsä
teinään teinänsä
translative
tiekseen tieksensä
teikseen teiksensä
abessive
tiettään tiettänsä
teittään teittänsä
instructive
comitative
—teineen teinensä :

#### Derived terms

* teitse
* tiehyt
* tiestö
* tietää
* tietön
* ajotie
* alatie
* ansatie
* asetie
* asfalttitie
* autotie
* elämäntie
* etappitie
* etutie
* Eurooppatie
* hallintoteitse
* harhatie
* hengitystie
* hiekkatie
* hukkateille
* hukkateillä
* hyökkäystie
* hätäpoistumistie
* idäntie
* ilmatie
* jakelutie
* jalankulkutie
* jalantie
* jalkatie
* jäätie
* kalatie
* Kangastie
* kantatie
* kapulatie
* karavaanitie
* karkuteille
* karkuteillä
* karkuteiltä
* karkutie
* karttatie
* katvetie
* kauppatie
* kauttakulkutie
* kehitystie
* kehätie
* kelkkatie
* keskitie
* kiertotie
* kiitotie
* kohtalontie
* kokoojatie
* komentotie
* kotitie
* koulutie
* kulkutie
* kurinpitoteitse
* kurinpitotietä
* kylätie
* kädentie
* kärrytie
* kärsimystie
* kävelytie
* leveäkaistatie
* linnuntie
* läpikulkutie
* maantie
* maatie
* maisematie
* matkailutie
* meritie
* metsätie
* moottoriliikennetie
* moottoritie
* museotie
* napintie
* nelostie
* neuvottelutie
* nousutie
* ohikulkutie
* ohitustie
* oikeustie
* oikotie
* opintie
* paikallistie
* pakkotie
* pakotie
* pelastustie
* peltotie
* pengertie
* perääntymistie
* pihatie
* pikatie
* pikitie
* pikkutie
* pintateitse
* poistumistie
* puistotie
* puolitiehen
* puolitiessä
* puolitiestä
* purkautumistie
* pyörätie
* pääntie
* pääsytie
* päätie
* radioteitse
* raitiotie
* rantatie
* rasitetie
* ratsutie
* rautatie
* rautatiet
* ristintie
* rullaustie
* runkotie
* samantein
* sappitie
* satelliittiteitse
* saunatie
* sepelitie
* serpentiinitie
* serpenttiinitie
* seututie
* siirtotie
* silkkitie
* sisävesitie
* sisäänajotie
* sisääntulotie
* sivuteitse
* sivutie
* sopimustie
* soratie
* sovintoteitse
* sukupuoliteitse
* suojatie
* Suvitie
* syrjätie
* takateitse
* takatie
* talvitie
* Talvitie
* telatie
* televisioteitse
* tiealue
* tiehallinto
* tiehoitokunta
* tiehoitomaksu
* tiehöylä
* tiejohtaja
* tiejyrä
* tiekarhu
* tiekartta
* tiekilometri
* tiekirkko
* tiekohtainen
* tiekone
* tiekuljetus
* tiekunta
* tielaitos
* tielana
* tielautakunta
* tieliikenne
* tielinja
* tiemaa
* tiemaisema
* tiemaksu
* tiemerkintä
* tiemestari
* tienhaara
* Tienhaara
* tienhoito
* tienkäyttäjä
* tienkäyttö
* tienlaita
* tienmutka
* tiennäyttäjä
* tienparannus
* tienparannustyö
* tienpenger
* tienpenkere
* tienpenkka
* tienpinta
* tienpito
* tienpitäjä
* tienpohja
* tienpuoleinen
* tienpäällyste
* tienraivaaja
* tienrakennus
* tienrakennustyö
* tienrakentaja
* tienreuna
* tienristeys
* tienrunko
* tiensivu
* Tiensuu
* tientuke
* tienvarsi
* Tienvieri
* tienvieri
* tienvierusta
* tienviitta
* tieoikeus
* tieopaste
* tieosa
* tieosakas
* tieosuus
* tieosuuskunta
* tiepalvelu
* tiepartio
* tiepenger
* tiepiiri
* tiepuoleen
* tiepuolessa
* tiepuolesta
* tieraivo
* tierasite
* tiesulku
* tiesuola
* tiesää
* tietoimitus
* tietulli
* tieturvallisuus
* tietyö
* tieura
* tievalaistus
* tieverkko
* tieverkosto
* tieyhteys
* tieympäristö
* tilustie
* tipotiehensä
* tipotiessään
* toiviotie
* tullitie
* tulotie
* tykkitie
* ulosmenotie
* ulosottoteitse
* ulospääsytie
* umpitie
* valitusteitse
* valitustie
* valtatie
* varatie
* venetie
* veritie
* vesitie
* viertotie
* viittatie
* viljelystie
* virkatie
* virtsatie
* vuoristotie
* yhdystie
* yksityistie
* ylätie
* öljysoratie

### Further reading

* “tie”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

### Anagrams

* ite

## Karelian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee, possibly from Proto-Uralic *teje.

### Noun

tie (genitive tien, partitive tiedy)
* way
* road

## Latvian
### Pronoun

tie
* those; nominative plural masculine of tas

## Ludian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

### Noun

tie
* way

## Mandarin
### Romanization

tie
* Nonstandard spelling of tiē.
* Nonstandard spelling of tié.
* Nonstandard spelling of tiě.
* Nonstandard spelling of tiè.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Middle English
### Noun

tie
* Alternative form of teye (“chest, enclosure”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse þegja.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtiːe/

### Verb

tie (present tense tier, simple past tidde or tiet, past participle tidd or tiet)
* to become quiet, stop talking
    Han tidde plutselig. ― He suddenly became quiet.
* to be quiet
    Hun tidde mens hun arbeidet. ― She was quiet while she worked.

### See also

* teie, teia (Nynorsk)

### References

* “tie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Noun

tie n (plural ties, masculine tio, masculine plural tios, feminine tia, feminine plural tias)
* (gender-neutral, neologism, informal) pibling
** 2019 September 30, Ophelia Cassiano, “Guia para “Linguagem Neutra” (PT-BR)”, in Medium‎:Nosse tie é muito criative.Our pibling is very creative.