Tie
[taɪ]
Definition
(noun.) a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied; 'he needed a tie for the packages'.
(noun.) a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating; 'he nailed the rafters together with a tie beam'.
(noun.) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track; 'the British call a railroad tie a sleeper'.
(noun.) (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value.
(noun.) equality of score in a contest.
(verb.) form a knot or bow in; 'tie a necktie'.
(verb.) limit or restrict to; 'I am tied to UNIX'; 'These big jets are tied to large airports'.
(verb.) finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.; 'The teams drew a tie'.
(verb.) fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord; 'They tied their victim to the chair'.
(verb.) unite musical notes by a tie.
(verb.) make by tying pieces together; 'The fishermen tied their flies'.
Edited by Babbage--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) A knot; a fastening.
(v. t.) A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.
(v. t.) A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
(v. t.) An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.
(v. t.) A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.
(v. t.) A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.
(v. t.) Low shoes fastened with lacings.
(v. t.) To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind.
(v. t.) To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot.
(v. t.) To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.
(v. t.) To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.
(v. t.) To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.
(v. t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.
(v. i.) To make a tie; to make an equal score.
Edited by Adela
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Bind, fasten (with a cord or string), manacle, shackle, fetter.[2]. Knit, interlace, complicate, knot, entangle.[3]. Unite, join, connect, link.
n. [1]. Knot, fastening, band, ligature.[2]. Bond, obligation.[3]. Equal number (on both sides, as of votes).
Typed by Greta
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Band, ligature, ligament, fastening, knot, bond
SYN:Bind, restrict, restrain, fasten, confine, unite, secure, oblige, join,[SeeBIND]
Checker: Michelle
Definition
v.t. to bind: to fasten with a cord: to unite: to constrain: (mus.) to unite notes with a tie: to score equally with: to bind with a ligature.—v.i. to make an exactly equal number of points with:—pr.p. ty′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. tied (tīd).—n. a knot bow &c.: a bond: something for tying: a necktie: a member fastening parts together one of a set of timbers laid crosswise: an equality in numbers as of votes or of points in a game: (mus.) a curved line drawn over two or more notes on the same degree of the stave signifying that the second note is not to be sounded separately but is to sustain the first.—ns. Tie′-beam a beam resting on the walls and stretching across keeping the rafters fast; Tī′er one who ties: a child's apron; Tie′-rod a rod serving as a tie between two pieces; Tie′-wig a court-wig tied with ribbon at the back.—Play off a tie to take part in a final contest to decide a tie in a game.
Typist: Ludwig
Examples
- The tie between the Dagonets, the du Lacs of Maryland, and their aristocratic Cornish kinsfolk, the Trevennas, had always remained close and cordial. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I don't,' said Boffin, in a free-handed manner, 'want to tie a literary man--WITH a wooden leg--down too tight. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The Hindu priest is a part of the family life of his flock, between whom and himself the tie has existed for many generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Give it to me, and let me put a paper round it, and tie it to my umbrella with my shade;--there, now. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Then a machine was needed and invented to wind the corn-brush with the cord or wire and tie it in a round bunch, preparatory to flattening and sewing it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was lost upon Sikes, who was stooping at the moment to tie the boot-lace which the dog had torn. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Thus assisted, she skipped down with much agility, and began to tie her double chin into her bonnet. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- After spelling it out slowly, the man made it into a little roll, and tied it up in an end of his neckerchief still more slowly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Every shilling of my money is tied up. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Stripping his harness from him I securely bound his hands behind his back, and after similarly fastening his feet tied him to a heavy gun carriage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They were all marked and docketed, and tied with red tape. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The early plants were tied, and most lowly plants to-day are tied, by the conditions of their life cycle, to water. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There's a hackney-coachman downstairs with a black eye, and a tied-up head, vowing he'll have the law of you. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- By another ingenious device the cord was tied and cut, when the sewing was completed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- You mean of family ties? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That she was, if there were any ties of blood in such a case, the child's aunt. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Practically all people know that ribbons and ties, trimmings and dresses, frequently look different at night from what they do in the daytime. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Bale ties themselves have received great attention from inventors, and the most successful have won fortunes for their owners. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The rails were insulated from the ties by giving them two coats of japan, baking them in the oven, and then placing them on pads of tar-impregnated muslin laid on the ties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They speak one language, and are related by blood and other ties. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By the ties of the past and the charities of the present. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Where's your law for tying it up then? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She was much given to tying up her head in a pocket-handkerchief, knotted under the chin. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Robert Jordan went to where Pablo was tying the horses. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In very early times men must have used some kinds of cords or lines for fishing, for tying animals, at times for tying men. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- While he was tying she cried, I cannot stop it! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Yes, I think I could do it by tying on this pail. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- When Little Dorrit had her work on the table, and Maggy hers on the bedstead, Fanny fell to tying her bonnet as a preliminary to her departure. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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