Wiktionary

tie

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tie" and тӏе

EnglishEdit

 
A tie in the musical sense.

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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.

NounEdit

tie (plural ties)

  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.
    Synonym: necktie
  4. A lace-up shoe.
    Oxford ties; Derby ties
    Coordinate term: court 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 strong connection between people or groups of people.
    Synonym: bond
    the sacred ties of friendship or of duty
    the ties of allegiance
    • 1866, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Prince and the Page
      No distance breaks the tie of blood.
    • 2004, Peter Bondanella, Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, chapter 4, 231–232:
      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.
  7. (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
    Hyponym: tiebar
    Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.
  8. (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
    Synonym: (British) sleeper
  9. The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
    Synonym: draw
    It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score.
  10. (cricket) 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. (sports, US) An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
    • 2010, Scott Glabb, A Saint in the City: Coaching At-risk Kids to Be Champions, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 146:
      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 ...
    • 1971, Budapress News Service, Budapress Bulletin, volume 10, issues 27-52, page 8:
      […] 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.
  12. (sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
    The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957.
  14. (music) 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.
    Coordinate term: slur
  16. (phonetic transcription) A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
    Wikipedia: tie (typography)
  17. (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
  18. (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
  19. (graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
  20. A tiewig.
    • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 13, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:
      [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.
Usage notesEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
necktie — see necktie
sleeper — see sleeper

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English teien, teiȝen, from Old English tīġan, tīeġan, from Proto-West Germanic *taugijan, from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to tug, draw”). Cognate with Icelandic teygja.

VerbEdit

tie (third-person singular simple present ties, present participle tying, simple past and past participle tied)

  1. (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
    Tie this rope in a knot for me, please.
    Tie the rope to this tree.
  2. (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
    Tie a knot in this rope for me, please.
  3. (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
    Tie him to the tree.
  4. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To secure (something) by string or the like.
    Tie your shoes.
  5. (transitive, intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
    They tied for third place.
    They tied the game.
  6. (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
    He tied me for third place.
  7. (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
  8. (US, dated, colloquial) To believe; to credit.
    • 1929, Collier's (volume 84, page 56)
      […] It seems they have sort of betrothal teas — can you tie it?"
      "Heavens!" said Mary […]
    • 1940, Woman's Home Companion (volume 67, issues 1-4, page 134)
      As the door slammed Pete turned to Hally, fuming. "Can you tie that? A little twopenny cold frightening him off."
  9. (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
    • 2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl: 3rd Edition (page 814)
      So, a class for tying a hash to an ISAM implementation might provide an extra method to traverse a set of keys sequentially (the “S” of ISAM), since your typical DBM implementation can't do that.
SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to achieve the same score — see equalize
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ReferencesEdit

  • tie in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse þegja, from Proto-Germanic *þagjaną, cognate with Swedish tiga, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þahan). The Germanic verb is probably cognate with Latin taceō (“to be silent”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtiːə/, [ˈtˢiːi]

VerbEdit

tie (past tense tav or tiede, past participle tiet)

  1. to be silent, fall silent

InflectionEdit

Inflection of tie
present past
simple tier tav or tiede
perfect har tiet havde tiet
passive ties —
participle tiende tiet
imperative ti —
infinitive tie —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund tien —

Related termsEdit

EsperantoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From ti- (demonstrative correlative prefix) +‎ -e (correlative suffix of location).

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

tie (accusative tien)

  1. there (demonstrative correlative of location)
    Iun nokton li havis strangan sonĝon. Voĉo diris al li: —Iru al Amsterdamo kaj tie sur la Papen-ponto vi trovos trezoron.
    One night he had a strange dream. A voice told him: "Go to Amsterdam and there over the Papen-bridge you will find a treasure.

Usage notesEdit

When combined with ĉi, the adverbial particle of proximity, tie ĉi means here.

Derived termsEdit

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FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *tee, from Proto-Finno-Permic *teje.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtie̯/, [ˈt̪ie̞̯]
  • Rhymes: -ie
  • Syllabification(key): tie

NounEdit

tie

  1. way (by which to go/walk/move)
  2. road
  3. avenue
  4. path

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of tie (Kotus type 19/suo, no gradation)
nominative tie tiet
genitive tien teiden
teitten
partitive tietä teitä
illative tiehen teihin
singular plural
nominative tie tiet
accusative nom. tie tiet
gen. tien
genitive tien teiden
teitten
partitive tietä teitä
inessive tiessä teissä
elative tiestä teistä
illative tiehen teihin
adessive tiellä teillä
ablative tieltä teiltä
allative tielle teille
essive tienä teinä
translative tieksi teiksi
instructive — tein
abessive tiettä teittä
comitative — teineen
Possessive forms of tie (type suo)
possessor singular plural
1st person tieni tiemme
2nd person tiesi tienne
3rd person tiensä

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CompoundsEdit

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KarelianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *tee, possibly from Proto-Uralic *teje.

NounEdit

tie (genitive tien, partitive tiedy)

  1. way
  2. road

LatvianEdit

PronounEdit

tie

  1. those; nominative plural masculine form of tas

LudianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

NounEdit

tie

  1. way

MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

tie

  1. Nonstandard spelling of tiē.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of tié.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of tiě.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of tiè.

Usage notesEdit

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

tie

  1. Alternative form of teye (“chest, enclosure”)

Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse þegja.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

tie (present tense tier, simple past tidde or tiet, past participle tidd or tiet)

  1. to become quiet, stop talking
    Han tidde plutselig. ― He suddenly became quiet.
  2. to be quiet
    Hun tidde mens hun arbeidet. ― She was quiet while she worked.

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ReferencesEdit

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