tie

Significat (anglès)

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.
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.
7. A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
8. 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.
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).
12. A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
13. 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.
14. A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
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.

Verb

1. To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
2. To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
3. To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
4. To secure (something) by string or the like.
5. To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
6. To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
7. To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
8. (colloquial) To believe; to credit.
9. In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/taɪ/

Etimologia (anglès)

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.

Sents

Vann knows that the police will eventually tie the murders to him .