untie
verbecourant dans les dialogues
- //ʌnˈtaɪ//
To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
verbe
- 1
To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
to untie a knot
Haſt thou the pretty vvorme of Nylus [an asp] there, / That killes and paines not? / […] / Come thou mortal vvretch, / VVith thy ſharpe teeth this knot intrinſicate, / Of life at once vntye: Poore venomous Foole, / Be angry, and diſpatch.
Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
- 2
To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
- 3
To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.
- 4
To become untied or loosed.
- 5
In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
After you finish with the INI file, all you need to do is untie the hash. Then you really are finished!
Étymologie
From Middle English untien, unteyen, untyȝen, untiȝen, from Old English untīġan (“to untie”), equivalent to un- + tie.
Formes
- passé
- untied
- participe passé
- untied
- participe présent
- untying
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- unties
untie · To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
until · Up to the time of (something happening); pending.unto · Up to the time or degree that; until.untouchable · Not able to be touched.