Word Finder - ties

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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.

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To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.

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Tie the rope to this tree.

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To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.

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Tie a knot in this rope for me, please.

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To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.

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Tie him to the tree.

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To secure (something) by string or the like.

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Tie your shoes.

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To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.

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They tied for third place.

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To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.

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He tied me for third place.

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To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.

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To believe; to credit.

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In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.

When Constantinople fell in 1453, the old ties between Venice and the Eastern empire were broken, and she now entered on a wholly new phase of her history.

Certainly he has no ties to Josh Mulligan of forty years ago, or the Dawkins, or the Lucky Pup mine.

But his measures speedily gave dissatisfaction to the Argentine or Creole party, who had long chafed under the disabilities of Spanish rule, and who now felt themselves no longer bound by ties of loyalty to a country which was in the possession of the French armies.

The nucleus of the invading horde was a small pastoral tribe in Mongolia, the chief of which, known subsequently to Europe as Jenghiz Khan, became a mighty conqueror and created a vast empire stretching from China, across northern and central Asia, to the shores of the Baltic and the valley of the Danube - a heterogeneous state containing many nationalities held together by purely administrative ties and by an enormous military force.

The chief portion of this rig is the derrick, Oil which consists of four strong uprights or legs held in Derrick position by ties and braces, and resting on strong wooden sills, which are preferred, as a foundation, to masonry.

In addition to th e se residents or natives of the locality, Shelley, Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clough, Crabb Robinson, Carlyle, Keats, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Mrs Hemans, Gerald Massey and others of less reputation made longer or shorter visits, or were bound by ties of friendship with the poets already mentioned.

Family ties are strong, and the women are not ill-treated, although they share in all kinds of manual labour.

Pinckney, like many other South Carolina revolutionary leaders, was of aristocratic birth and politics, closely connected with England by ties of blood, education and business relations.

The great earldoms of the West-Saxon period were allowed to lapse; the new earls, for the most part closely connected with William by the ties of blood or friendship, were lords of single shires; and only on the marches of the kingdom was the whole of the royal jurisdiction delegated to such feudatories.

But he preferred keeping himself at liberty to serve his countrymen unshackled by official ties, and declined the invitation.

In the Pratt truss the struts were vertical and the ties inclined.

The struts and ties are called bracing bars.

Their way of life and place of residence, their acquaintances and ties, Natasha's occupations, the children's upbringing, were all selected not merely with regard to Pierre's expressed wishes, but to what Natasha from the thoughts he expressed in conversation supposed his wishes to be.

A great deal of how you wear your ties depends on how much you follow trends.

Ties are the ideal way to pull an outfit together and give it a polished, clean-cut finish.

Charles married Elizabeth, the sister of Casimir the Great of Poland, with whom he was connected by ties of close friendship, and Louis, by virtue of a compact made by his father thirty-one years previously, added the Polish crown to that of Hungary in 1370.

The bishops, individually and collectively, are thus the essential ties of Catholic unity; they alone, as the depositories of the apostolic traditions, establish the norm of Catholic orthodoxy in the general councils of the Church.

A very important feature of the faade is the portico or porch-way, which covers the principal steps and is generally formed by producing the central portion of the main roof over the steps and supporting such projection upon isolated wooden pillars braced together near the top with horizontal ties, carved, moulded and otherwise fantastically decorated.

Nearly all of the preceding were produced either at Amsterdam or Rotterdam, and, although out of place in a precise geographical arrangement, really belong to France by the close ties of language and of blood.

Of his lost works the most important was the Historia Gothorum, written with the object of glorifying the Gothic royal house and proving that the Goths and Romans had long been connected by ties of friendship. It was published during the reign of Athalaric, and appears to have brought the history down to the death of Theodoric. His chief authority for Gothic history and legend was Ablavius (Ablabius).

Leopold of Tuscany was a well-meaning, not unkindly man, and fonder of his subjects than were the other Italian despots; but he was weak, and too closely bound by family ties and Habsburg traditions ever to become a real Liberal.

The course of events harmonized with the anticlerical views of Talleyrand, and he gradually loosened the ties that bound him to the church.

Though such dragomans enjoyed by treaty the protection of the country employing them, they were by local interests and family ties very intimately connected with the Turks, and the disadvantages of the system soon became apparent.

The Howe truss had timber chords and a lattice of timber struts, with vertical iron ties.

The main suspension chains are carried across the centre span in the form of horizontal ties resting on the high-level footway girders.

These ties are jointed to the hanging chains by pins 20 in.

On the abutment towers the chains are connected by horizontal links, carried on rockers, to anchor ties.

The anchor ties are connected to girders embedded in large concrete blocks in the foundations of the approach viaducts.

The lower flange and ties were flat wrought iron links.

Here are a few of the principal, ties.

They regarded themselves as separate from the rest of the world and bound together by peculiar ties.

Thus over a great part of Europe the Catholic Church was split up into territorial or national churches, which, whatever the theoretical ties which bound them together, were in fact separate organizations, tending ever more and more to become isolated and self-contained units with no formal intercommunion, and, as the rivalry of nationalities grew, with increasingly little even of intercommunication.

Though bound by family ties with both competitors, he regarded the situation from a purely political point of view.

In 1860 the people of Kentucky were drawn toward the South by their interest in slavery and by their social relations, and toward the North by business ties and by a national sentiment which was fostered by the Clay traditions.

Thus in a Venetian story the ingenious Beppo ties up Death in a bag and keeps him there for eighteen months; there is general rejoicing; nobody dies, and the doctors are in high feather.

Thus transition was made possible from an agnatic society based on blood ties to one based on contiguity.

The Church when it had once conquered the world allowed such precepts to lapse and fall into the background, and no one save monks or Manichaean heretics remembered them any more; indeed modern divines affect to believe that marriage rites and family ties were the peculiar concern of the Church from the very first; and few moderns will fail to sympathize with the misgivings of the barbarian chief who, having been converted and being about to receive Christian baptism, paused as he stepped down into the font, and asked the priests if in the heaven to which their rites admitted him he would meet and converse with his pagan ancestors.

While the federation of the provinces favoured the growth of a strong sentiment of Canadian individuality, the result of unification had been to strengthen decidedly the ties that bind the country to the empire.

Posts and railway ties are also made from ohia-ha (Eugenia sandwicensis).

The ties with Greek official Christendom were snapped for ever, and in subsequent ages the doctrinal preferences of the Armenians were usually determined more by antagonism to the Greeks than by reflection.

Even when cut off from its possessions on the mainland the city itself was not captured; its seafaring trade went on; and though by degrees the colonies were lost, yet the ties of race and sentiment remained strong enough to bind the Phoenicians of the mother-country to their kindred beyond the seas.

Thus Sisyphus fettered Death, keeping him prisoner till rescued by Ares; in Venetian folklore Beppo ties him up in a bag for eighteen months; while in Sicily an innkeeper corks him up in a bottle, and a monk keeps him in his pouch for forty years.

But whatever cause she might have found since marriage to complain of his rigorous custody and domineering brutality was insufficient to break the ties by which he held her.

Slight ties of soft cotton wool or worsted, or moist raffia, are then applied.

Care should be taken that the ties or fastenings do not eventually cut into the bark as the branches swell with increased age.

In training greenhouse plants the young branches should be drawn outwards by means of ties fastened to a string or wire FIG.

It is for this reason, for instance, that railroad rails are of constant uniform section throughout their length, instead of having those parts of their length which come between the supporting ties deeper and stronger than the parts which rest on the ties.

The tails when split into two or three, with small strips of narrow tape so as to separate the otherwise dense fur, formerly made very handsome sets of trimmings, ties and muffs, and the probabilities are, as with other fashions, such use will have its period of revival.

If the colour were less motley and the joins between the skins could be made less noticeable, it would be largely in demand for stoles, ties and muffs.

The best skins also provide excellent material for coats, capes, stoles, ties, collars, cuffs, gloves, muffs, hoods and light-weight carriage aprons.