Tie

//taɪ// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A knot; a fastening.
  2. 2
    a fastener that serves to join or connect wordnet
  3. 3
    A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
  4. 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. 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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  1. 6
    a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied wordnet
  2. 7
    A lace-up shoe.

    "Oxford ties; Derby ties"

  3. 8
    a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating wordnet
  4. 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.
  5. 10
    one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track wordnet
  6. 11
    A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.

    "the sacred ties of friendship or of duty"

  7. 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
  8. 13
    A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.

    "Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes."

  9. 14
    the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided wordnet
  10. 15
    A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails. US
  11. 16
    a social or business relationship wordnet
  12. 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."

  13. 18
    equality of score in a contest wordnet
  14. 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).
  15. 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 ..."

  16. 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."

  17. 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.
  18. 23
    A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/. phonetic, transcription

    "Wikipedia: tie (typography)"

  19. 24
    One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
  20. 25
    A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
  21. 26
    A connection between two vertices.
  22. 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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely. transitive

    "Tie this rope in a knot for me, please."

  2. 2
    form a knot or bow in wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    limit or restrict to wordnet
  5. 5
    To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like. transitive

    "Tie him to the tree."

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  1. 6
    finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc. wordnet
  2. 7
    To secure (something) by string or the like. figuratively, sometimes, transitive

    "Tie your shoes."

  3. 8
    fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord wordnet
  4. 9
    To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering. ambitransitive

    "They tied for third place."

  5. 10
    connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces wordnet
  6. 11
    To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering. US, transitive

    "He tied me for third place."

  7. 12
    unite musical notes by a tie wordnet
  8. 13
    To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
  9. 14
    make by tying pieces together wordnet
  10. 15
    To believe; to credit. US, colloquial, dated

    "[…] It seems they have sort of betrothal teas — can you tie it?" "Heavens!" said Mary […]"

  11. 16
    perform a marriage ceremony wordnet
  12. 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."

  13. 18
    create social or emotional ties wordnet

Etymology

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.

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.

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