different between untie vs auntie

English

Etymology

From Middle English untien, unteyen, unty?en, unti?en, from Old English unt??an (“to untie”), equivalent to un- +? tie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?ta?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

untie (third-person singular simple present unties, present participle untying, simple past and past participle untied)

1. (transitive) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
   • 1645, Edmund Waller, To Amoret

     Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.

2. (transitive) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
   • c. 1605,, Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 4, scene 1:

     Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.

   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.

3. To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
   • 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)

     They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.

4. (intransitive) To become untied or loosed.
5. (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
   • 2002, Dave Roth, Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions (page 151)

     After you finish with the INI file, all you need to do is untie the hash. Then you really are finished!

Antonyms

• tie

Translations

Anagrams

• unite

English

Alternative forms

• aunty

Etymology

aunt +? -ie

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æn.ti/, /???n.ti/
• Rhymes: -??nti, -ænti
• Homophones: ante, anti (in some accents)

Noun

auntie (plural aunties)

1. Diminutive of aunt
2. (Asia, Africa) Term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.
3. (LGBT, slang, US) An elderly gay man.

Usage notes

In some lects this is the most common spoken form for aunt.

Synonyms

• aunt

Translations

See also

• uncle

Verb

auntie (third-person singular simple present aunties, present participle auntying, simple past and past participle auntied)

1. To be or behave like the aunt of.

References

Anagrams

• Uniate