tie
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: ties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A knot; a fastening.
pos: noun
gloss: A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
pos: noun
gloss: A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
pos: noun
gloss: A lace-up shoe.
pos: noun
examples: Oxford ties; Derby ties
[…] the tip of her russet boot almost grazed that of his Oxford tie.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
pos: noun
examples: the sacred ties of friendship or of duty
the ties of allegiance; the ties that bind
Occasions that reinforce the ties of kindred.
No distance breaks the tie of blood.
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.
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.
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te thanked Canada on Tuesday for its support during recent Chinese military drills and praised the deepening of ties between the two sides, shortly ahead of a visit to China by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
gloss: A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
pos: noun
examples: Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.
gloss: A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
pos: noun
examples: It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score.
gloss: The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
pos: noun
gloss: An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: 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 ...
[…] 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.
gloss: A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
pos: noun
tags: phonetic
transcription
examples: Wikipedia: tie (typography)
gloss: One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
pos: noun
gloss: A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
pos: noun
gloss: A connection between two vertices.
pos: noun
gloss: A tiewig.
pos: noun
examples: [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.
gloss: To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tie this rope in a knot for me, please.
Tie the rope to this tree.
gloss: To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tie a knot in this rope for me, please.
gloss: To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tie him to the tree.
In bond of virtuous love together tied.
gloss: To secure (something) by string or the like.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
sometimes
transitive
examples: Tie your shoes.
Not tied to rules of policy, you find / Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.
gloss: To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: They tied for third place.
They tied the game.
gloss: To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: He tied me for third place.
gloss: To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
pos: verb
gloss: To believe; to credit.
pos: verb
tags: US
colloquial
dated
examples: […] It seems they have sort of betrothal teas — can you tie it?"
"Heavens!" said Mary […]
As the door slammed Pete turned to Hally, fuming. "Can you tie that? A little twopenny cold frightening him off."
gloss: In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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 words: angle tie
ascot tie
black-tie
bolo tie
bootlace 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
string tie
suit and tie
tiebar
tie bar
tie beam
tiebeam
tie belt
tiebreak
tie breaker
tiebreaker
tiebreaking
tie bush
tie clasp
tie clip
tiedown
tieless
tiemaker
tiemaking
tie-out
tie periwig
tiepin
tie plate
tieplate
tie rod
tie tack
tie that binds
tie-up
tie wire
tie wrap
twisty tie
two-legged tie
undertie
wanty
white tie
white-tie
zip tie
intertie
betie
hog-tie
mistie
retie
ride and tie
self-tying
tick and tie
tieable
tie a can to it
tie-a-leaf
tie back
tieback
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
uptie
would lose one's head if it wasn't tied on
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: pražec
lang: Spanish
word: polín
lang: Spanish
word: traviesa