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Tie
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- 1 A knot; a fastening.
- 2 a fastener that serves to join or connect wordnet
- 3 A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- 4 neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front wordnet
- 5 A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
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- 6 a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied wordnet
- 7 A lace-up shoe.
"Oxford ties; Derby ties"
- 8 a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating wordnet
- 9 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.
- 10 one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track wordnet
- 11 A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
"the sacred ties of friendship or of duty"
- 12 (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value wordnet
- 13 A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
"Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes."
- 14 the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided wordnet
- 15 A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails. US
- 16 a social or business relationship wordnet
- 17 The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
"It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score."
- 18 equality of score in a contest wordnet
- 19 The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- 20 An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s). US
"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 ..."
- 21 A meeting between two players or teams in a competition. British
"The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957."
- 22 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.
- 23 A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/. phonetic, transcription
"Wikipedia: tie (typography)"
- 24 One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- 25 A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- 26 A connection between two vertices.
- 27 A tiewig.
"[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."
- 1 To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely. transitive
"Tie this rope in a knot for me, please."
- 2 form a knot or bow in wordnet
- 3 To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like. transitive
"Tie a knot in this rope for me, please."
- 4 limit or restrict to wordnet
- 5 To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like. transitive
"Tie him to the tree."
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- 6 finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc. wordnet
- 7 To secure (something) by string or the like. figuratively, sometimes, transitive
"Tie your shoes."
- 8 fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord wordnet
- 9 To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering. ambitransitive
"They tied for third place."
- 10 connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces wordnet
- 11 To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering. US, transitive
"He tied me for third place."
- 12 unite musical notes by a tie wordnet
- 13 To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- 14 make by tying pieces together wordnet
- 15 To believe; to credit. US, colloquial, dated
"[…] It seems they have sort of betrothal teas — can you tie it?" "Heavens!" said Mary […]"
- 16 perform a marriage ceremony wordnet
- 17 In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead. transitive
"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."
- 18 create social or emotional ties wordnet
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.
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.
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