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tie English

Meaning tie meaning

What does tie mean?
Definitions in simple English

tie Verb

— If you tie something, you attach it using string or rope. I was six when I learned to tie up my shoes. We tied the swing to the tree. — If two teams or players tie, they have the same score in a game. Naples and Rome tied the game two all.

tie Noun

— A tie is a piece of cloth that you wear around your neck as a decoration. At work, you need to wear a suit and tie.

tie

— verb fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord They tied their victim to the chair — verb (= draw) finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc The teams drew a tie — noun (= necktie) neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front he stood in front of the mirror tightening his necktie he wore a vest and tie — verb limit or restrict to I am tied to UNIX These big jets are tied to large airports — noun (= affiliation, association) a social or business relationship a valuable financial affiliation he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team many close associations with England — noun equality of score in a contest — verb (= connect, link) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces Can you connect the two loudspeakers? Tie the ropes together Link arms — verb form a knot or bow in tie a necktie — noun (= tie beam) a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating he nailed the rafters together with a tie beam — noun (= link) a fastener that serves to join or connect the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction — noun (= railroad tie, sleeper) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track the British call a railroad tie a sleeper — noun a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied he needed a tie for the packages — noun (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value — verb unite musical notes by a tie — verb make by tying pieces together The fishermen tied their flies — verb (= bond) create social or emotional ties The grandparents want to bond with the child — verb (= marry, wed, splice) perform a marriage ceremony The minister married us on Saturday We were wed the following week The couple got spliced on Hawaii — noun (= draw) the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided the game ended in a draw their record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie

Synonyms tie synonyms

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tie English » English

bind fasten bond knot necktie draw link tie up connect join attach tether string secure band sleeper cravat lash connection bandage ligature fastening bondage tighten hitch fetter binding wrap tie together strap moor wrap up weave shackle link up ligate lace knit attachment associate truss tie on thread rope ribbon restrain marry gird crosstie coupling

Topics tie topics

What do people use tie to talk about?
Physical actions Arrange

Tie
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports
Daily life Clothing

Men's clothing
Daily life Clothing

Wear clothing
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with cloth
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by land

Railroad
Grammar

Connected with, related
Person Life

Marriage
Person Life

Birth
Social behavior Law Punish

Imprison
Work and occupation Agriculture Process harvest

Store the harvest
Physical actions Move Pursue

Prevent from moving
States Time Relative time Before

At the same time

Conjugation tie conjugation

How do you conjugate tie?

tie · verb

Examples tie examples

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Simple sentences

Why don't you want to wear a tie?
I like that tie.
Straighten your tie.
Where's the red tie I bought you?
Tie your dog to that tree.
I like the tie you're wearing.
Your tie blends well with your suit.
Tie your shoelaces.
Hold still a moment while I fix your tie.
Do I need a tie?
Your tie is crooked.
The new tie goes with your jacket.
Everybody is supposed to wear a tie at the party.
The tie goes with your jacket.
Your tie looks good.
You need to wear a tie there.
Jeff wore the tie which Kim had given him for a birthday present.
It is unusual to see rock stars wearing a tie!
Could you tie it with a ribbon?
It is rumored that the firm is going to tie up with an American company.
That tie goes well with your shirt.
That tie looks good on you.

Movie subtitles

Aigo, here, tie it tightly.
I'm worried the bow tie's a little much.
COOPER: Neal, don't forget the bow tie. Barry, why aren't you picking up?
Tie the strap around your leg.
In case of a tie, it goes to the Supreme Court, and I can give you a little inside information in advance.
If anybody comes in that looks like a customer, tie 'em and brand 'em. Yes, sir.
You can beat that, but you can't tie it.
I don't need any new ties. I've got another tie.
Say, who's been tying your tie lately?
I wish you was a wishing well. so that I could tie a bucket to you and sink you.
Tie him up.
Tie'em up, Benedict.
Now, how can the shipping business go on if the owner's tie isn't straight?
I can't see to tie this.
My tie!
Where's my tie?
I get the tie. What you got?
Where's your tie?
Tie two sheets together and pull me up.
Because they can't tie 'em!
So he buys a tie holder but it's poor quality, and he can't tie his tie!
Shall I loosen my tie and sing a little song, boys?
I've got another tie.
Who's been tying your tie lately?
COOPER: Neal, don't forget the bow tie.
Say, is that my tie?
Can you tie that?
If you'll notice, the coat came first. then the tie, then the shirt.
Gave him a black eye. Had to tie him to a tree.
A brown suit, brown shoes, a white shirt. a grayish tie with reddish-brown, or brownish-red, dots in it.
He was wearing a green suit and a white tie.
You see, Bates insists that a square tie. is the only possible tie that can be worn with evening clothes.
A square tie, imagine.

News and current affairs

That, together with a high ranking for volunteering time, led it to tie with Myanmar as the most generous nation in the world.
If we want Europe to be more legitimate, we must explain how to tie these two dimensions of power.
As we know from other contexts, adjustment to newcomers is not easy: compare, say, the reaction to the tie-up between France's Alcatel and America's Lucent to the bids by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation for Chevron or Mittal for Acelor.
While this does not guarantee that no relationship exists between religion and discrimination against women, it suggests that if such a tie does exist, it is unrelated to female labor market participation or preference for sons.
But we need to look country-by-country at what else we can do to tie Europe's own parliament into national politics.
Whatever the merits of a common currency, those in Europe deliberating about adopting the Euro should consider whether to tie their fortunes to an institutional arrangement whose flaws are increasingly apparent.
Unions and agricultural groups tie up traffic with protests every other day, hinting at possible escalation.
Obviously, being highly educated, wearing a tie, eating with a fork, or cutting one's nails weekly is not enough.
It took hard military power to sever that tie.
Lady Ashton should be able to tie together the political and resource arms of Europe's external policies.
Better to radically reduce the size of the Commission, and to either tie countries into regional packages for Commission representation or rotate membership every few years among countries.
The companies with back-end standards will create interfaces to a couple of the leading applications; then other applications will tie themselves into those back-ends.
Equity-based awards, coupled with the highly leveraged capital structure of banks, tie executives' compensation to a leveraged bet on the value of banks' assets.
Consequently, governance improvements that make directors more focused on shareholder interests cannot be relied on to tie executive payoffs to the interests of shareholders and non-shareholders alike.
America's inflation would be contained but for the fact that so many countries, from the Middle East to Asia, effectively tie their currencies to the dollar.
It would therefore be tragic if the EU missed the opportunity to tie Kazakhstan firmly to the West.
To tie Europe closer to Africa, British Prime Minister Tony Blair even proposed eliminating the European Union's agricultural subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy.
But one hopes that campaign promises won't tie the new leader's hands, as so often happens in electoral politics.
When Germans tie their hands with constitutional budget laws, they are in effect untying their neighbors'.
Unions have historically been especially important since they engage in decentralized wage bargaining that tie wages to firms' productivity.
He is frequently booed and mocked by fans, and many thought that baseball's commissioner, Bud Selig, should not attend games at which Bonds might tie or break the record.
Of course, investors who don't want to tie up their funds in low-yielding government bonds can buy explicit inflation hedges as an overlay to their other investments.
If parliaments want to tie their own hands, they can do so simply by passing a law.
One key feature of the Bretton Woods system was that countries would tie their exchange rates to the US dollar.
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