tie
noun
- musical notation
- competition finished with identical or inconclusive results
verb
- to fasten, attach, or close by means of a tie
- to bind, fasten
- attach
- score the same
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /taɪ/ / /təɪ/ / /toɪ/
noun
Etymology: 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.
- 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.
- A lace-up shoe.
“Oxford ties; Derby ties”
“[…] the tip of her russet boot almost grazed that of his Oxford tie.”
- 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 connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
“the sacred ties of friendship or of duty”
“the ties of allegiance; the ties that bind”
- A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
“Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.”
- A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
“It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score.”
- The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
“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 ...”
“[…] 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.
- A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
“Wikipedia: tie (typography)”
- One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- A connection between two vertices.
- A tiewig.
“[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.”
verb
Etymology: 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.
- 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.”
- To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
“Tie a knot in this rope for me, please.”
- To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
“Tie him to the tree.”
“In bond of virtuous love together tied.”
- To secure (something) by string or the like.
“Tie your shoes.”
“Not tied to rules of policy, you find / Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.”
- To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
“They tied for third place.”
“They tied the game.”
- To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
“He tied me for third place.”
- To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- To believe; to credit.
“[…] It seems they have sort of betrothal teas — can you tie it?" "Heavens!" said Mary […]”
“As the door slammed Pete turned to Hally, fuming. "Can you tie that? A little twopenny cold frightening him off."”
- In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
“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.”