to bind, fasten, or attach with a cord, string, or the like, drawn together and knotted: to tie a tin can on a dog's tail.
2.
to draw together the parts of with a knotted string or the like: to tie a bundle tight.
3.
to fasten by tightening and knotting the string or strings of: to tie one's shoes.
4.
to draw or fasten together into a knot, as a cord: to tie one's shoelace.
5.
to form by looping and interlacing, as a knot or bow.
6.
to fasten, join, or connect in any way.
7.
Angling. to design and make (an artificial fly).
8.
to bind or join closely or firmly: Great affection tied them.
9.
Informal. to unite in marriage.
10.
to confine, restrict, or limit: The weather tied him to the house.
11.
to bind or oblige, as to do something.
12.
to make the same score as; equal in a contest.
13.
Music. to connect (notes) by a tie.
–verb (used without object)
14.
to make a tie, bond, or connection.
15.
to make or be the same score; be equal in a contest: The teams tied for first place in the league.
–noun
16.
that with which anything is tied.
17.
a cord, string, or the like, used for tying, fastening, binding, or wrapping something.
18.
a necktie.
19.
a low shoe fastened with a lace.
20.
a knot, esp. an ornamental one; bow.
21.
anything that fastens, secures, or unites.
22.
a bond or connection, as of affection, kinship, mutual interest, or between two or more people, groups, nations, or the like: family ties; the ties between Britain and the U.S.
23.
a state of equality in the result of a contest, as in points scored, votes obtained, etc., among competitors: The game ended in a tie.
24.
a match or contest in which this occurs.
25.
any of various structural members, as beams or rods, for keeping two objects, as rafters or the haunches of an arch, from spreading or separating.
26.
Music. a curved line connecting two notes on the same line or space to indicate that the sound is to be sustained for their joint value, not repeated.
27.
Also called, especially British, sleeper.Railroads. any of a number of closely spaced transverse beams, usually of wood, for holding the rails forming a track at the proper distance from each other and for transmitting train loads to the ballast and roadbed.
[Origin: bef. 900; (n.) ME te(i)gh cord, rope, OE téagh, tégh, c. ON taug rope; (v.) ME tien, OE tīgan, deriv. of the n.; cf. ON teygja to draw. See tug, tow1]
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