tie

Meaning

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. (US) 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. (US) An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
12. (British) 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. (phonetic, transcription) 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. (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
2. (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
3. (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
4. (figuratively, sometimes, transitive) To secure (something) by string or the like.
5. (ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
6. (US, transitive) 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. (US, colloquial, dated) To believe; to credit.
9. (transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.

Synonyms

bind

fasten

bond

knot

🪢

necktie

👔

draw

link

🔗

tie up

connect

join

attach

tether

string

🪢

band

secure

sleeper

cravat

connection

lash

bandage

ligature

fastening

bondage

fetter

binding

tighten

hitch

moor

tie together

wrap

strap

ligate

link up

lace

knit

shackle

attachment

weave

associate

wrap up

gird

marry

thread

🧵

tie on

crosstie

coupling

cord

braid

couple

👫

restrain

Translations

attacher

lier

🔗

cravatta

👔

legare

atar

corbata

👔

binden

cravate

👔

Krawatte

👔

amarrar

binden

verbinden

amarrar

nouer

🪢

relier

Pronounced as (IPA)

/taɪ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: teye

Inherited from Old English: tēag

Cognate with Danish: tov

Cognate with Icelandic: taug

Inherited from Middle English: teien

Inherited from Old English: tīġan

Cognate with Icelandic: teygja

In summary

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.

Sentences

He felt silly wearing a tie to the informal gathering .

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