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tie
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)
- 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.
- Synonym: necktie
- 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 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.
- (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- Synonym: (British) sleeper
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- Synonym: draw
- (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).
- (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.
- 2010, Scott Glabb, A Saint in the City: Coaching At-risk Kids to Be Champions, Tate Publishing (?ISBN), page 146:
- (sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- (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
- (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- (graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
- 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.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.13:
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)
- (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
- (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- In bond of virtuous love together tied.
- (transitive) To secure (something) by string or the like.
- Not tied to rules of policy, you find / Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.
- (transitive or intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- (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 […]
- […] It seems they have sort of betrothal teas — can you tie it?"
- 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."
- 1929, Collier's (volume 84, page 56)
- (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.
- 2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl: 3rd Edition (page 814)
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)
- 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)
- 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
- way (by which to go/walk/move)
- road
- avenue
- path
Declension
Derived terms
Compounds
Anagrams
- ite
Karelian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *tee, possibly from Proto-Uralic *teje.
Noun
tie (genitive tien, partitive tiedy)
- way
- road
Latvian
Pronoun
tie
- those; nominative plural masculine form of tas
Ludian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *tee.
Noun
tie
- way
Mandarin
Romanization
tie
- Nonstandard spelling of ti?.
- Nonstandard spelling of tié.
- Nonstandard spelling of ti?.
- 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)
- to become quiet, stop talking
- to be quiet
See also
- teie, teia (Nynorsk)
References
- “tie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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struts
English
Noun
struts
- plural of strut
Verb
struts
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of strut
Anagrams
- sturts, trusts
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse strúz, from Middle Low German strus, from Latin struthio, from Ancient Greek ????????? (strouthí?n)
Noun
struts m (definite singular strutsen, indefinite plural strutser, definite plural strutsene)
- an ostrich (large flightless bird, genus Struthio)
References
- “struts” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse strúz, from Middle Low German strus, from Latin struthio, from Ancient Greek ????????? (strouthí?n)
Noun
struts m (definite singular strutsen, indefinite plural strutsar, definite plural strutsane)
- an ostrich (as above)
References
- “struts” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish strudz, probably borrowed from Middle Low German str?s, str?se, str?ts, str?tse, ultimately from Late Latin str?thi?, from Ancient Greek ????????? (strouthí?n).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??ts
Noun
struts c
- ostrich; a large African bird
- indefinite genitive singular of strut
Declension
Descendants
- Finnish: strutsi
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