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. 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