Definition of Tie

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Definition of Tie

Tie

A knot; a fastening.

A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.

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

An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.

A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.

A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.

Low shoes fastened with lacings.

To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind.

To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot.

To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.

To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.

To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.

To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.

To make a tie; to make an equal score.

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Tie Quotations

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Thomas Jefferson

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.
Rodney Dangerfield

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
George Burns

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
Woodrow Wilson

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
Charlie Chaplin

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
Stephen King

Tie Translations

tie in Afrikaans is bind, das
tie in Dutch is stropdas, das
tie in Finnish is sitoa
tie in French is cravate, accolage, amarrer, liaison
tie in German is verbinden, Krawate, Krawatte, Band
tie in Italian is legamento, legare, legare saldamente, cravatta
tie in Latin is vinculum, ligo
tie in Norwegian is slips
tie in Spanish is corbata, atar, aocrrar, liar
tie in Swedish is knyte, slips, binda

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