tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /təɪ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /toɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: Tai
homophone: Thai
homophone: Ty
Forms: form: ties
Etymology: 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.
Senses: glosses: A knot; a fastening.
glosses: A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
synonyms: necktie
glosses: A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
examples: text: Oxford ties; Derby ties
text: […] the tip of her russet boot almost grazed that of his Oxford tie.
ref: 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:
coordinate_terms: court shoe
glosses: A lace-up shoe.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: the sacred ties of friendship or of duty
text: the ties of allegiance; the ties that bind
text: No distance breaks the tie of blood.
ref: 1866, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Prince and the Page:
text: 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.
ref: 1983 December 31, Gary Phillips, “Gays in Gaol [Jail]: Who Cares”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 15:
text: 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.
ref: 2004, Peter Bondanella, chapter 4, in Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, pages 231–232:
synonyms: bond
glosses: A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
examples: text: Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: sleeper
glosses: A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
examples: text: It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score.
synonyms: draw
glosses: The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: draw
glosses: The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
examples: text: 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 ...
ref: 2010, Scott Glabb, A Saint in the City: Coaching At-risk Kids to Be Champions, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 146:
text: […] 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.
ref: 1971, Budapress News Service, Budapress Bulletin, volume 10, issues 27-52, page 8
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
examples: text: The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
coordinate_terms: slur
glosses: 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.
examples: Wikipedia: tie (typography)
glosses: A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A connection between two vertices.
examples: text: [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.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A tiewig.
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