tie
nounverbcommon in dialogue
- //taɪ//
- //təɪ//
- //toɪ//
A knot; a fastening.
noun
- 1
A knot; a fastening.
- 2
A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- 3
A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- 4
A lace-up shoe.
Oxford ties; Derby ties
[…] the tip of her russet boot almost grazed that of his Oxford tie.
- 5
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.
- 6
A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
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.
- 7
A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.
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A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- 9
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.
- 10
The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- 11
An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
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.
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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.
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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.
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A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
Wikipedia: tie (typography)
- 15
One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- 16
A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- 17
A connection between two vertices.
- 18
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.
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.
verb
- 1
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.
- 2
To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
Tie a knot in this rope for me, please.
- 3
To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
Tie him to the tree.
In bond of virtuous love together tied.
- 4
figurativeTo secure (something) by string or the like.
Tie your shoes.
Not tied to rules of policy, you find / Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.
- 5
To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
They tied for third place.
They tied the game.
- 6
To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
He tied me for third place.
- 7
To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- 8
datedTo believe; to credit.
[…] 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."
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In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
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.
Etymology
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.
Forms
- plural
- ties
- past tense
- tied
- past participle
- tied
- present participle
- tying
- third person singular
- ties