Definitions for tie
taɪtie

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. necktie, tienoun

   neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front

   "he stood in front of the mirror tightening his necktie"; "he wore a vest and tie"

2. affiliation, association, tie, tie-upnoun

   a social or business relationship

   "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England"

3. tienoun

   equality of score in a contest

4. tie, tie beamnoun

   a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating

   "he nailed the rafters together with a tie beam"

5. link, linkup, tie, tie-innoun

   a fastener that serves to join or connect

   "the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction"

6. draw, standoff, tienoun

   the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided

   "the game ended in a draw"; "their record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie"

7. tienoun

   (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value

8. tie, railroad tie, crosstie, sleepernoun

   one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track

   "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper"

9. tieverb

   a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied

   "he needed a tie for the packages"

10. tie, bindverb

    fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord

    "They tied their victim to the chair"

11. tie, drawverb

    finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.

    "The teams drew a tie"

12. tieverb

    limit or restrict to

    "I am tied to UNIX"; "These big jets are tied to large airports"

13. connect, link, tie, link upverb

    connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces

    "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms"

14. tieverb

    form a knot or bow in

    "tie a necktie"

15. bind, tie, attach, bondverb

    create social or emotional ties

    "The grandparents want to bond with the child"

16. marry, wed, tie, spliceverb

    perform a marriage ceremony

    "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii"

17. tieverb

    make by tying pieces together

    "The fishermen tied their flies"

18. tieverb

    unite musical notes by a tie

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tienoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Knot; fastening.2. Bond; obligation.

   The rebels that had shaken off the great yoke of obedience, had likewise cast away the lesser tie of respect. Francis Bacon.

   No forest, cave, or savage den,
   Holds more pernicious beasts than men;
   Vows, oaths, and contracts, they devise,
   And tell us they are sacred ties. Edmund Waller.

   ’Tis not the coarser tie of human law
   That binds their peace, but harmony itself
   Attuning all their passions into love. James Thomson, Spring.

2. To Tieverb

   Etymology: tian, tigan , Saxon.

   1. To bind; to fasten with a knot.

   Tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them. 1 Sam. vi. 7.

   Thousands of men and women, tied together in chains, were, by the cruel Turks, enforced to run as fast as their horses. Richard Knolles, Hist. of the Turks.

   2. To knit; to complicate.

   We do not tie this knot with an intention to puzzle the argument; but the harder it is tied, we shall feel the pleasure more sensibly when we come to loose it. Burnet.

   3. To hold; to fasten.

   In bond of virtuous love together tied,
   Together serv’d they, and together died. Edward Fairfax.

   The intermediate ideas tie the extremes so firmly together, and the probability is so clear, that assent necessarily follows it. John Locke.

   Certain theorems resolve propositions which depend on them, and are as firmly made out from thence, as if the mind went afresh over every link of the whole chain that ties them to first self-evident principles. John Locke.

   4. To hinder; to obstruct.

   Death that hath ta’n her hence to make me wail,
   Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak. William Shakespeare.

   Melantius stay,
   You have my promise, and my hasty word
   Restrains my tongue, but ties not up my sword. Edmund Waller.

   Honour and good-nature may tie up his hands; but as these would be very much strengthened by reason and principle, so without them they are only instincts. Addison.

   5. To oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.

   Although they profess they agree with us touching a prescript form of prayer to be used in the church, they have declared that it shall not be prescribed as a thing whereunto they will tie their ministers. Richard Hooker, b. v.

   It is the cowish terrour of his spirit,
   That dares not undertake; he’ll not feel wrongs
   Which tie him to an answer. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   Cannot God make any of the appropriate acts of worship to become due only to himself? cannot he tie us to perform them to him. Edward Stillingfleet.

   They tie themselves so strictly to unity of place, that you never see in any of their plays a scene change in the middle of an act. Dryden.

   Not tied to rules of policy, you find
   Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind. Dryden.

   No one seems less tied up to a form of words. John Locke.

   The mind should, by several rules, be tied down to this, at first, uneasy task; use will give it facility. John Locke.

   They have no uneasy expectations of what is to come, but are ever tied down to the present moment. Francis Atterbury.

   A healthy man ought not to tie himself up to strict rules, nor to abstain from any sort of food in common use. Arbuth.

   6. It may be observed of tie, that it has often the particles up and down joined to it, which are, for the most part, little more than emphatical.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tie

   1. A long thin piece of cloth, worn around the neck and tied in a special way, usually by men for formal occasions. 2. A condition where two or more individuals or groups have an equal score, amount or ranking in a competition or comparison. 3. A connection, association or relationship between people, objects or ideas. 4. A structural component, usually in construction or engineering, designed to keep two objects or parts together or in a certain relation to each other. 5. An action of fastening or binding things together with a rope, string, or similar material.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tieverb

   a knot; a fastening

2. Tieverb

   a bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance

3. Tieverb

   a knot of hair, as at the back of a wig

4. Tieverb

   an equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race

5. Tieverb

   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

6. Tieverb

   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

7. Tieverb

   low shoes fastened with lacings

8. Tieverb

   to fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind

9. Tieverb

   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

10. Tieverb

    to unite firmly; to fasten; to hold

11. Tieverb

    to hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine

12. Tieverb

    to unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them

13. Tieverb

    to make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with

14. Tieverb

    to make a tie; to make an equal score

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tie

   To draw or tie is to finish a competition with identical or inconclusive results. The word "tie" is usually used in North America for sports such as American football. "Draw" is usually used in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Commonwealth of Nations and it is usually used for sports such as association football and Australian rules football. In cricket, a draw and a tie are two different things. In some sports and games, ties/draws are possible, while in others they are impossible.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tie

   tī, 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. [M. E. teyen—teye, a band—A.S. teág, teáh, týge, a rope.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TIE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tie is ranked #82908 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Tie surname appeared 227 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tie.
   
   62.5% or 142 total occurrences were Asian.
   26.4% or 60 total occurrences were White.
   4.8% or 11 total occurrences were Black.
   3.9% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Beam
   • Brace
   • Connect
   • Equality
   • Equalize
   • Fashion
   • Fasten
   • Music
   • Officiate
   • Restrict
   • Shape
   • Slur

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'tie' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3124

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'tie' in Nouns Frequency: #1337

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'tie' in Verbs Frequency: #461

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How to pronounce tie?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say tie in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tie in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tie in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of tie in a Sentence

1. Rachel Greszler:

   The least they can do is tie any permanent fix to accountability.

2. Blake Nash:

   The day of putting on a suit and tie at 6 in the morning and getting a clean cut shave and taking your briefcase to an office somewhere, it’s gone.

3. Charles Caleb Colton:

   Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

4. James Akers:

   I do not like the government or any other entity, just ask my wife, telling me what to do, at work, they make me wear this jacket. I hate it. They make me wear this shirt and tie. I hate it.

5. Feliciano Lopez:

   Experience is always a good thing to have but today I think the match could have gone either way, if you play a tie-break against someone who’s such a good server as Nick you know it’s going to be tight.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=tie
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=tie
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tie
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=tie
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=tie
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tie