Tie
Definitions
- 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.
- A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
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A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails. US
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
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An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s). US
- A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- 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.
- A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- A connection between two vertices.
- A tiewig.
Equivalents
Examples
“Oxford ties; Derby ties”
“[…] the tip⟳ of her russet boot almost grazed that of his Oxford tie.”
“the sacred ties of friendship or of duty”
“the ties of allegiance; the ties that bind⟳”
“No distance breaks the tie of blood.”
“In most states the court view⟳ is that if a person rents (and particularly if it is only a room), does not have⟳ a car, does not live⟳ within a nuclear family unit, is not established in full-time employment, then that person is considered to be without ties and an itinerant and therefore ought not to be granted bail.”
“The film ends with the colorful deaths of Nico's enemies after he thwarts their attempts to assassinate a U.S. Senator investigating ties between drug dealers and the CIA.”
“Taiwan President Lai Ching-te thanked Canada on Tuesday for its support⟳ during recent Chinese military drills and praised the deepening of ties between the two sides, shortly ahead of a visit⟳ to China by Canadian Prime Minister Mark⟳ Carney.”
“Ties work⟳ to maintain⟳ structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.”
“It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score⟳.”
“I thought José was still a point⟳ down. I thought he needed another takedown to tie and pull⟳ ahead, so I ordered José to let⟳ his man up. I looked up too late, realizing that José already scored a tie. By that point⟳, the New Jersey champion got his ...”
“[…] game in the championships shouldering a vast disadvantage and was in due course defeated by Egyetértés, one of the newcomers in the first league. Eger, the other novice in the championships, also took off successfully scoring a tie with the Ruha ETO.”
“The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957.”
“Wikipedia: tie (typography)”
“[H]e ordered his boarders and apartments to be dished out for the occasion, spared no pains in adorning his own⟳ person, and in particular employed a whole hour in adjusting a voluminous tye, in which he proposed to make⟳ his appearance.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
See also
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