English Explanatory Dictionary

tie

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
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. 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.

Pronunciation

/taɪ/ /təɪ/ /toɪ/ en-us-tie.ogg en-au-tie.ogg

Word forms

tie ties tying tied

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

necktie bond sleeper draw fasten link bind

Antonyms

unfasten untie

Derived words

angle tie ascot tie black-tie bolo tie bootlace tie bowtie bread tie cable tie chain tie cross-tie cup tie gut-tie hair tie kipper tie Oxford tie power tie railroad tie railway tie school tie shoelace tie shoe-tie soul tie statistical tie string tie suit and tie tie bar tiebar tie beam tie belt tiebreaker tie breaker tie bush tie clasp tie clip tiedown tie-out tie periwig tiepin tie plate tie rod tie tack tie that binds tie-up tie wire tie wrap twisty tie two-legged tie white-tie white tie zip tie hog-tie ride and tie self-tying tick and tie tie a can to it tie-a-leaf tie back tie down tie-dye tie hand and foot

Translations

Czech: pražec Spanish: polín Spanish: traviesa
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