different between tie vs band

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: Tai, Thai, Ty

Etymology 1

From Middle English tei, teie, from Old English t?ag, t?ah, from Proto-Germanic *taug?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-. Compare Danish tov, Icelandic taug.

Noun

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 twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
5. A strong connection between people or groups of people.

   Synonym: bond

   • 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.

6. (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.

7. (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.

   Synonym: (British) sleeper

8. The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.

   Synonym: draw

9. (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).
10. (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.

11. (sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.

13. (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

14. (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
15. (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
16. (graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
17. A tiewig.
    • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.13:

      [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 notes

• In cricket, a tie and a draw are not the same. See Result (cricket).
• In music, not to be confused with a slur.

Derived terms

• cup tie
• hair tie

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English teien, tei?en, from Old English t??an, t?e?an, from Proto-Germanic *taugijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to tug, draw”). Cognate with Icelandic teygja.

Verb

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.

2. (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.

3. (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.

   • In bond of virtuous love together tied.

4. (transitive) To secure (something) by string or the like.

   • Not tied to rules of policy, you find / Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.

5. (transitive or intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.

6. (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.

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.

Synonyms

• fasten
• link
• bind

Antonyms

• unfasten
• untie

Derived terms

• tie down
• tie-in, tie in
• tie the knot
• tie up

Translations

References

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

Further reading

• tie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -ite, EIT, ETI, ITE, TEI

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti??/, [?t?i?i]

Verb

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

1. to be silent, fall silent

Inflection

Related terms

• tie stille

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tie/
• Hyphenation: ti?e
• Rhymes: -ie
• Audio:

Adverb

tie (accusative tien)

1. there (demonstrative correlative of location)

   Iun nokton li havis strangan son?on. Vo?o 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 notes

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

Derived terms

• ?i tie, tie ?i
• tiea
• tieulo

Related terms

• kie
• ie
• nenie

Finnish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tie?/, [?t?ie??]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification: tie

Noun

tie

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

Declension

Derived terms

Compounds

Anagrams

• ite

Karelian

Etymology

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

Noun

tie (genitive tien, partitive tiedy)

1. way
2. road

Latvian

Pronoun

tie

1. those; nominative plural masculine form of tas

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

Noun

tie

1. way

Mandarin

Romanization

tie

1. Nonstandard spelling of ti?.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tié.
3. Nonstandard spelling of ti?.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tiè.

Usage notes

• 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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þegja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti?e/

Verb

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

1. to become quiet, stop talking

2. to be quiet

See also

• teie, teia (Nynorsk)

References

• “tie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?nd, IPA^(key): /bænd/
• (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [be?nd]
• Homophone: banned
• Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Middle English band (also bond), from Old English beand, bænd, bend (“bond, chain, fetter, band, ribbon, ornament, chaplet, crown”), from Proto-Germanic *band?, *bandiz (“band, fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?end?- (“to tie, bind”). Middle English band reinforced by Old French bande. Cognate with Dutch band, German Band, Danish bånd, Swedish band, Icelandic bandur (“band”). Related to bond, bind, bend.

Noun

band (plural bands)

1. A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
   1. A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
   2. A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
      • 1843, Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt

        band and gusset and seam

   3. A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
   4. A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
2. A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.

3. (architecture) A strip of decoration.
   1. A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
   2. In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
4. That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
5. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
6. (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
7. (physics) A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
8. (physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.

9. (obsolete) A bond.
10. (obsolete) Pledge; security.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

11. (especially US) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
12. (sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
13. (medicine) Short for band cell.
14. (slang, hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) money

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (bando)
• ? Korean: ?? (baendeu)

Translations

Verb

band (third-person singular simple present bands, present participle banding, simple past and past participle banded)

1. (transitive) To fasten with a band.
2. (transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English band, from Old French bande, from Old Occitan banda (“regiment of troops”), perhaps from Frankish *bend, from Proto-Germanic *bandiz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?end?- (“to tie; bond, band”).

Noun

band (plural bands)

1. A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
2. A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
3. A marching band.
4. A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23

     "My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."

5. (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
6. (Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Cantonese: band (Chinglish)
• ? German: Band (colloquial)
• ? Japanese: ??? (bando)
• ? Korean: ?? (baendeu)

Translations

Verb

band (third-person singular simple present bands, present participle banding, simple past and past participle banded)

1. (intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Acts xxiii. 12

     Certain of the Jews banded together.

2. (transitive, education) To group (students) together by perceived ability; to stream.

Derived terms

• band together

Translations

Etymology 3

Verb

band

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of bind

See also

• band on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Band in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• band at OneLook Dictionary Search
• band in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• B-DNA, bDNA, bdna

Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English band.

Pronunciation

Noun

band

1. (Cantonese) band (group of musicians) (Classifier: ???)

   • ???????????Band [Cantonese, trad.]
     ???????????Band [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 1987, ??? (Samuel Hui), ????Band

     kei⁴ mong⁶ faai³ faai³ sing⁴ wai⁴ sai³ gaai³ zeoi³ ging⁶ ge³ ben¹ [Jyutping]

     Hoping that we'll quickly become the world's best band

   • C???band??
     A??????????band? [Cantonese, trad.]
     C???band??
     A??????????band? [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 1998, ???1 (Radio 1), Hong Kong Cantonese Corpus (HKCanCor)

     C: Bin¹ deoi⁶ ben¹ sin¹?
     A: Hai⁶ lo¹. mou⁵ gong² dou³ hai⁶ bin¹ deoi⁶ ben¹. [Jyutping]

     C: So which band?
     A: Indeed, they didn't mention which band.

   • ??????????band???????????leader????band????????????????? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ??????????band???????????leader????band????????????????? [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2010, TVB-J2, K-ON????? (K-On!), season 1, episode 2

     taan⁴ git³ taa¹ go² go³ tung¹ soeng⁴ hai⁶ jat¹ deoi⁶ ben¹ ge³ zung¹ sam¹, biu² jin² go² zan⁶ jiu³ hou² ci⁵ li¹ daa⁴ gam² daai³ zyu⁶ deoi⁶ ben¹, hou² zi⁶ jin⁴ zau⁶ wui⁵ kap¹ jan⁵ dou^3-2 gun¹ zung³ ge³ muk⁶ gwong¹ gaa³ laa³. [Jyutping]

     The guitarist is usually the center of a band and has to lead the band during performances, and naturally becomes the audience's center of attention.

Synonyms

• ????? (yuèduì)
• ????? (z?hé)

References

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Danish

Etymology 1

From English band.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?nd/, [b?æ?nd?]

Noun

band n (singular definite bandet, plural indefinite band or bands)

1. band

Inflection

Derived terms

• funkband

Etymology 2

From Old Norse bann (“ban, curse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ban/, [b?æn?]

Noun

band n (singular definite bandet, not used in plural form)

1. (rare) excommunication

Etymology 3

From bande (“swear, curse”), from Old Norse banna (“ban, curse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ban/, [b?æn?]

Noun

band c or n

1. (rare) swear word

Verb

band

1. imperative of bande

References

• “band” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bant. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?nt/
• Hyphenation: band
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

band m (plural banden, diminutive bandje n)

1. connection, liaison, bond (attachment, as in a relation)
2. band (all English senses, above, except for group of musicians) (clarification of this definition is needed)
3. tire/tyre (e.g. a car tyre)
4. tape (magnetic tape, video tape)
5. bank (the bank of a pool table)
6. belt (martial arts belt)
7. belt (conveyor belt)
8. (physics) interval relating to frequency or wavelength in electromagnetic phenomena
   1. interval in the light spectrum
   2. range of energy levels in a solid state material
9. ribbon
10. bond, tie

Derived terms

Related terms

• verband

Descendants

• Afrikaans: band
• ? Indonesian: ban

Noun

band n (plural banden, diminutive bandje n)

1. ribbon

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English band.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?nt/
• Hyphenation: band
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

band m (plural bands, diminutive bandje n)

1. (music) band

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse band.

Noun

band n (genitive singular bands, plural bond)

1. (a piece of) rope, string
2. (figuratively, in the plural) ties, connection, relations

Declension

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Verb

band

1. past of binden

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse band.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pant]
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

band n (genitive singular bands, nominative plural bönd)

1. (a piece of) string
2. yarn
3. (figuratively, in the plural) ties, connection, relations
4. binding (of a book)
5. (music) tie
6. (music, slang) a musical band

Declension

Synonyms

• (band): hljómsveit f

Derived terms

• vera á bandi
• vinna á sitt band
• samband
• myndband

Related terms

• binda
• bundinn

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bande, bend
• bond, boond, bonde, bound

Etymology

From Old English bend, from Proto-Germanic *bandiz; vocalism is influenced by Old Norse band and Old French bande.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??nd/, /ba?nd/, /b?nd/, /band/

Noun

band (plural bandes)

1. That which obstructs one's free will and free action; a restraint.
   1. A chain or other object used to restrain a captive.
   2. Captivity; the condition of being jailed.
   3. A compact, directive or binding pact (either reciprocal or from one unto another)
2. A strip of a material used to tie or bind; a band:
   1. A rope or piece of twine used to tie or bind.
   2. A headband (a band that surrounds the head)
   3. A metal band that surrounds an object in order to strengthen it.
   4. (anatomy, rare) A joint or sinew.
   5. (heraldry, rare) A diagonal stripe or band.
3. (rare) A strip of a material not used to tie or bind.
4. Something used to join or connect; a link.
   1. (figuratively) A metaphorical connection or linkage.
5. A collection or group of bound items.

Descendants

• English: band, bend
• Scots: band, bend

References

• “b??nd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-25.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• bånd (see this word for common usage)

Etymology

From English band (in this sense)

Noun

band n (definite singular bandet, indefinite plural band, definite plural banda or bandene)

1. (music) a band; group of (rock) musicians

Derived terms

• rockeband
• samband

References

• “band” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse band, akin to English bond.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?nd/

Noun

band n (definite singular bandet, indefinite plural band, definite plural banda)

1. a tape
2. a ribbon
3. a band
4. a bond
5. a leash (for a dog)

Derived terms

• samband

Etymology 2

From English band (music)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bænd/, /b?nd/

Noun

band n (definite singular bandet, indefinite plural band, definite plural banda)

1. (music) a band

References

• “band” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *band?.

Noun

band n (genitive bands, plural b?nd)

1. the act of binding or settling

   Antonym: lausn
2. band, cord
3. (plural only) bonds, fetters
4. (plural only) bond, confederacy
5. (plural only, poetic) the gods

Declension

Derived terms

• bandamaðr m (“confederate”)
• bandingi m (“prisoner”)

Related terms

• binda (“to bind”)

Descendants

References

• band in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse band.

Pronunciation

Noun

band n

1. a band, a ribbon, a tape; a strip of material
2. a band, an ensemble, an orchestra; group of musicians
3. a band, a gang; band of robbers
4. (physics) a band; a part of radio spectrum
5. (physics) a band; a group of energy levels
6. an audio tape or a video tape
7. a cassette of audio or video tape
8. a tie, a connection, a relation; from a person to another person or to a place

Declension

Derived terms

• halsband
• kasettband

Related terms

• banda
• bandning

Etymology 2

From English band

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?band/

Noun

band n

1. (music) a band

Declension

Verb

band

1. past tense of binda.

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English band.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /band/

Noun

band m (plural bandiau)

1. band (group of musicians)
2. band (strip of material)
3. (physics) band

Derived terms

• band arian (“silver band”)
• band eang (“broadband”)
• band lastig (“elastic band”)
• band llydan (“broadband”)
• band pres (“brass band”)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “band”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies