Word Finder - tie

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A knot; a fastening.

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A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.

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A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.

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• necktie

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The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.

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It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score.

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• draw

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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.

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A strong connection between people or groups of people.

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the sacred ties of friendship or of duty

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• bond

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A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.

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Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.

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A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.

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• sleeper

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The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).

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A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.

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The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957.

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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.

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One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.

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A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.

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A connection between two vertices.

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A tiewig.

You have to tie the bales by hand, though.

Here, tie the rope around your waist.

They were all dressed for a white tie party in expensive tuxedos.

As she bent to tie her shoes, a gory vision made her stagger.

Same reason she knew better than to let me tie her.

Wait, we must tie it up again.

He sat there, not in a uniform, but in shirt and tie, with a suit jacket slung over the chair.

At least Dean had refrained from disclosing the tie to the Dawkinses—Josh, the missing mine manager—nor had he mentioned he knew the name of the Dawkinses' stepmother.

Glancing in the mirror, he straightened his jacket and tucked the tie back down into his vest.

I'd have to believe someone is smart enough to tie those crimes all together.

We finished the season with eight losses and that one tie.

The reporter was curious to discover how it would all tie up, but it didn't.

I got blood on my tie!

Fred straightened his bow tie as he stepped down.

Next to the officer was a stern looking man in a suit and tie, arms crossed, staring straight ahead.

I'm going to talk to him about this if I have to tie him down to do it.

Long brown fingers loosened and removed the tie and then unbuttoned his shirt.

On all the accepted forms there are two or more flanges at the bottom, running lengthwise of the plate and crosswise of the rail; these are requisite to give proper stiffness, and further, as they are forced into the tie by the weight of passing traffic, they help to fix the plate securely in place.

With the decline of totemism arose the need for human sacrifice - the only means of re-establishing the broken tie of kinship when the animal species was no longer akin to man.

The Scots, on the other hand, were resolved not to allow of, the introduction of usages which had not prevailed in earlier times, and to keep the tie as vague and loose as possible.

On internal grounds it appears that the Pentateuch and Joshua, as they now read, virtually come in between an older history by "Deuteronomic" compilers (easily recognizable in Judges and Kings), and the later treatment of the monarchy in Chronicles, where tie influence of the circle which produced P and the present Mosaic legislation is quite discernible.

A region with a highly irregular surface, filled with hills and parameras, separates the Sierra de Guadarrama from the Sierra tie Gredos farther west.

Canada is likely to outstrip the United States in the trade of fish and blubber oils, and in tie near future Japan bids fair to become a very serious competitor in the supply of these oils.

This is especially necessary in the case of reverberatory furnaces, which are essentially weak structures, and therefore require to be bound together by complicated systems of tie rods and uprights or buck staves.

Fred was dressed for the occasion—dapper suit, bow tie, and vest—while the Deans donned the grubbiest attire they could find.

When they conceded a tie game, Darby's men showed their character.

Fred's changed his bow tie three times and you're bouncing around here like a November turkey.

Numerous small archipelagoes and islands, of which the chief are Belle Tie, Groix and Ushant, fringe the Breton coast.- North of the Bay of St Michel the peninsula of Cotentin, terminating in the promontories of Hague and Barfleur, juts north into the English Channel and closes the bay of the Seine on the -west.

Phelan to tie up traffic in and around Cincinnati.

He had done a great work in Egypt; the most permanent being the weakening of the tie binding the country to Turkey, the starting of the great cotton industry, the recognition of the advantages of European science, and the conquest of the Sudan.

The king had not, even in his own mind, any family tie to restrain him from exercising just severity, for he had never believed Monmouth to be the son of any one but Robert Sidney.

The family tie between all the Carlyles was unusually strong, and Thomas regarded his father with a reverence which found forcible expression in his Reminiscences.

Fries is stigmatized as one of the " ringleaders of shallowness " who were bent on substituting a fancied tie of enthusiasm and friendship for the established order of the state.

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Under this name are included a number of philosophers of the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. Mainly Ionians by birth, they are united by a local tie and represent all that was best in the early Ionian intellect.

There is a division of society into septs or clans, the membership of which constitutes the closest tie.

All or nearly all of these were at one time totem animals among one or another of the Semitic tribes, and were not eaten because primitive men will not eat animals between which and themselves and their gods they believe a peculiar tie of kinship to exist.

At first sight these rites seem intended to call down the pity of heaven on man, but as Robertson Smith points out, their real import was by shedding blood on a holy stone or in a holy place to tie or renew a blood-bond between the God and his faithful ones.

In early and popular apocryphal histories the apostles are represented as insisting that their converts should either not contract wedlock or should dissolve the tie if already formed.

You want to wear black tie or no tie, that's fine, too.

Please note that dress is black tie, or club blazer.

I once had to borrow a white bow tie from a hall porter in an hotel in Venice.

And Mike Davies of the Alliance for Green Socialism ably compered the event wearing his jaunty red bow tie.

He broke a tie with a 20-foot birdie putt on 14, then chipped in on 16 to take command of the tournament.

This ' boy ' has a tie on, perhaps signifying age or formality, yet he is sitting in a tree house.

Some schemes tie the individual to a particular type of employment or specific employer.

His is a smart black suit with a yellow tie and as it looks like rain a long black umbrella.

After drawing the first leg at home 0-0, the Clarets were clear underdogs going into the second tie.

Then he moves back and starts undoing his tie.

By night he was donning a frock coat and bow tie in the last of the great seaside vaudeville shows witnessed on the Island.