tying
noun
- practice of selling one product or service as a mandatory addition to the purchase of a different product or service
- method of securing the layers in a bedcover or other layered textile by stitching individual knots through all layers at intervals
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪ.ɪŋ/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English tiȝing, teing, from Old English *tīgung, tīging (“connection”), from Proto-Germanic *taugungō, from *taugijaną from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to tug, draw”). Equivalent to tie + -ing. Present participle from Old English tīgende, from tīgan, tīegan.
- Action of the verb to tie; ligature.
“It cost us several tyings and untyings before her ladyship was pleased with her own foot.”
- The act or process of washing ores in a buddle.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English tiȝing, teing, from Old English *tīgung, tīging (“connection”), from Proto-Germanic *taugungō, from *taugijaną from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to tug, draw”). Equivalent to tie + -ing. Present participle from Old English tīgende, from tīgan, tīegan.
- present participle and gerund of tie