tie \tie\, v. i.
   to make a tie; to make an equal score.
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tie \tie\, n.; pl. ties. as. t=ege, t?ge, timacge.
   root64. see tie, v. t.
   1. a knot; a fastening.
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   2. a bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties
      of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.
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            no distance breaks the tie of blood.  --young.
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   3. a knot of hair, as at the back of a wig. --young.
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   4. an equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which
      prevents either party from being victorious; equality in
      any contest, as a race.
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   5. arch.  engin. 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.
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   6. mus. 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.
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   7. pl. low shoes fastened with lacings.
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   bale tie, a fastening for the ends of a hoop for a bale.
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see also:
ties tie bale tie 

tie \tie\, v. t. imp.  p. p. tiedobs. tight; p. pr. 
   vb. n. tying. oe. ti?en, teyen, as. timacgan,
   ti'egan, fr. te'ag, te'ah, a rope; akin to icel. taug,
   and as. te'on to draw, to pull. see tug, v. t., and cf.
   tow to drag.
   1. to fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind. "tie the
      kine to the cart." --1 sam. vi. 7.
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            my son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake
            not the law of thy mother: bind them continually
            upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
                                                  --prov. vi.
                                                  20,21.
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   2. 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. "we do not tie this knot with
      an intention to puzzle the argument." --bp. burnet.
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   3. to unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.
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            in bond of virtuous love together tied. --fairfax.
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   4. to hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as
      by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to
      confine.
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            not tied to rules of policy, you find
            revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind. --dryden.
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   5. mus. to unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved
      line, or slur, drawn over or under them.
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   6. to make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even
      with.
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   to ride and tie. see under ride.

   to tie down.
      a to fasten so as to prevent from rising.
      b to restrain; to confine; to hinder from action.

   to tie up, to confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion
      or action.
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see also:
tied tight tying tug tow to ride and tie 
ride to tie down to tie up 

tie
     n 1: neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn
          mostly by men under a collar and tied in knot at the
          front; "he stood in front of the mirror tightening his
          necktie"; "he wore a vest and tie" syn: necktie
     2: a social or business relationship; "a valuable financial
        affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with
        other members of the team"; "many close associations with
        england" syn: affiliation, association, tie-up
     3: the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the
        winner is undecided; "the game ended in a draw"; "their
        record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie" syn: draw, standoff
     4: a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural
        members from spreading apart or separating; "he nailed the
        rafters together with a tie beam" syn: tie beam
     5: a fastener that serves to join or link; "the walls are held
        together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during
        construction" syn: link, linkup, tie-in
     6: equality of score in a contest
     7: music a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates
        that the note is to be sustained for their combined time
        value
     8: one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway
        track; "the british call a railroad tie a sleeper" syn: railroad
        tie, crosstie, sleeper
     9: a cord or string or ribbon or wire etc. with which
        something is tied; "he needed a tie for the packages"
     v 1: fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord; "they tied
          their victim to the chair" syn: bind ant: untie
     2: finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.;
        "the teams drew a tie" syn: draw
     3: limit or restrict to; "i am tied to unix"; "these big jets
        are tied to large airports"
     4: connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; "can
        you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "tie the ropes
        together"; "link arms" syn: connect, link, link up
        ant: disconnect
     5: form a knot or bow in; "tie a necktie"
     6: create social or emotional ties; "the grandparents want to
        bond with the child" syn: bind, attach, bond
     7: perform a marriage ceremony; "the minister married us on
        saturday"; "we were wed the following week"; "the couple
        got spliced on hawaii" syn: marry, wed, splice
     8: make by tying pieces together; "the fishermen tied their
        flies"
     9: unite musical notes by a tie
     also: tying
see also:
necktie affiliation association tie-up draw standoff 
tie beam link linkup tie-in railroad tie 
crosstie sleeper bind untie connect 
link up disconnect attach bond marry 
wed splice tying 

460 moby thesaurus words for "tie":
   roman collar, tweedledum and tweedledee, accent, accent mark,
   accord, accouple, accumulate, addition, adherence, adhesion,
   adjunct, affairs, affiliate, affiliation, affinity, agent,
   agglomeration, agglutinate, agglutination, aggregation, allegiance,
   alliance, ally, amass, amount to, anchor, apply, approximation,
   armory, articulate, articulation, assemblage, assemble, associate,
   association, assurance, attach, attachment, badge, badge of office,
   badges, balance, band, bandage, bandanna, bar, baton, batten,
   batten down, be consistent, be logical, belay, belt, bend, bertha,
   bind, bind up, blazonry, boa, bona fides, bond, bonne foi, bowtie,
   brace, bracket, bracketing, brassard, break even, bridge,
   bridge over, bridle, broker, bundle, button, button-down collar,
   cancel, cap and gown, cause, cause to, celluloid collar, cement,
   chain, chain of office, character, choke, choker, cinch,
   clap together, class ring, clerical collar, clinch, clog,
   closeness, clustering, cockade, coeval, coexistent, coincide,
   collar, collect, combination, combine, come to, come up to,
   comforter, commit, communication, compel, comprise, concatenate,
   concatenation, concomitant, concourse, concurrence, confine,
   confirm, confluence, congeries, conglobulate, conglomeration,
   conjoin, conjugate, conjugation, conjunction, connect,
   connectedness, connection, constancy, constrain, contemporary,
   contiguity, contrariety, convergence, coordinate, copulate,
   copulation, cord, correlate, correspond, couple, coupling, cover,
   cramp, cravat, cross, curb, curtail, custos, dead heat, deadlock,
   dealings, decoration, deduction, devotedness, devotion, direct,
   disjunction, distributor, ditto, do up, dog collar, dot, draw,
   draw a parallel, dress, drive, eagle, elate, emblems, embrace,
   enchain, encompass, enforce, engage, ensigns, entanglement,
   entrammel, equal, equality, equate, even, even break, even off,
   expression mark, fair shake, faith, faithfulness, fasces, fasten,
   fasten down, fastener, fastening, fealty, fermata, fetter,
   fidelity, figurehead, filiation, firmness, fit in, fleur-de-lis,
   force, four-in-hand, fur, gather, gathering, gird, girdle, girt,
   girth, glue, go-between, good faith, guarantee, guaranty, guimpe,
   gyve, halt, hammer and sickle, hamper, handcuff, have, heraldry,
   hinder, hitch, hobble, hog-tie, hold, homage, homology, hookup,
   hopple, identify, impel, impose on, include, indemnity, insignia,
   insurance, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking,
   intermediary, intermedium, interrelate, intimacy, involvement,
   jobber, join, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, keep busy,
   keep pace with, kerchief, key signature, knot, knotted score,
   knotting, lace, lapel pin, lash, lay together, lead, league, leash,
   liaison, ligament, ligature, limit, line, link, linkage, linking,
   livery, loyalty, lump together, mace, make, make fast,
   make imperative, make incumbent, make secure, make sense,
   make sure, manacle, mantle, mark, markings, marriage, marry,
   marshal, mass, match, match up with, mate, measure, measure up,
   measure up to, medal, mediary, mediator, medium, meet, meeting,
   merge, merger, merging, metronomic mark, middleman, mobilize, moor,
   mortarboard, muffler, mutual attraction, nail down, nearness,
   neck-and-neck race, neckband, neckcloth, neckerchief, neckpiece,
   necktie, nexus, notation, obligate, oblige, occupy, old school tie,
   pair, pairing, parallel, parallelize, pause, peg down,
   photo finish, picket, piece together, pin, pin down, pinion,
   pledge, plunging neckline, presa, propinquity, proximity,
   put in irons, put together, rapport, reach, regalia, relate,
   relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, relativize,
   require, restrain, restrict, ribbon, ring, rival, rivet,
   roll into one, rope, rose, ruff, run abreast, run to, saddle with,
   scarf, school ring, secure, security, segno, shackle, shamrock,
   shoelace, sigillography, sign, signature, similarity,
   skull and crossbones, sleeper, slur, solder, span, sphragistics,
   splice, stack up with, staff, stalemate, standoff, staunchness,
   steadfastness, stick together, stock, stocks and bonds, stole,
   stop, straitjacket, strap, string, surety, swaddle, swastika,
   swathe, swell, symbiosis, symbol, sympathy, take in, take up,
   tallith, tape, tartan, team up, tempo mark, tether, the same,
   thistle, thong, tie down, tie in, tie up, tie-in, tie-up,
   tight-fisted, time signature, tippet, touch, trammel, troth,
   true blue, trueness, truss, truss up, tucker, unification, uniform,
   unify, union, unite, use, use force upon, verge, vinculum, wand,
   warrant, warranty, wed, weld, wholesaler, wire, wrap, wrap up,
   yoke, yoking

tie
     terminal interface equipment
     
     

tie. when two persons receive an equal number of votes at an election, there 
is said to be a tie. 
     2. in that case neither is elected. when the votes are given on any 
question to be decided by a deliberative assembly, and there is a tie, the 
question is lost. vide majority.