tie
IPA: tˈaɪ
noun
- A knot; a fastening.
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A lace-up shoe.
- 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.
- A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
- (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- (sports, US) An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
- (sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- (music) 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.
- (phonetic transcription) A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- (graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
- A tiewig.
verb
- (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
- (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To secure (something) by string or the like.
- (transitive, intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- (US, dated, colloquial) To believe; to credit.
- (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
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Examples of "tie" in Sentences
- The man is wearing a tie.
- I want you to tie it taut.
- The maid told him to tie the horse.
- The fringes are used to tie the arrow sash.
- Beckham looked sharp in a natty blazer and tie.
- Stoke won the tie and ultimately the competition.
- Did she tie the string to the inside of the drawer
- The spies tie and gag the pilots and hijack the plane.
- The agreement was intended to tie the dobra to the euro.
- In the case of a tie, the elder senator is deemed the winner.
- AMANPOUR: And those five people are what you call the tie-down people?
- AMANPOUR: And those five people are what you call the tie-down people.
- So the tie is a certainty to be shown live on television, you would think.
- Likewise, the tie is awarded to the goalie in net when the tying goal is scored.
- I agree with kklein, the tie is all men have to show off their little bit of personality.
- Fig. 30 illustrates the more common variety of tie, while Fig. 31 shows an example of the _enharmonic [10] tie_.
- I think the lack of a tie is the entire reason that the less formal clothes today are more innately gender-neutral.
- Moynihan "doesn't care about his appearance, that his tie is askew, his hair is on fire," says Nancy Bush, head of NAB Research.